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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:43:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] brd: mark as nowait compatible
References: bsc#1012628
Patch-mainline: 6.2.3
Git-commit: 67205f80be9910207481406c47f7d85e703fb2e9

commit 67205f80be9910207481406c47f7d85e703fb2e9 upstream.

By default, non-mq drivers do not support nowait. This causes io_uring
to use a slower path as the driver cannot be trust not to block. brd
can safely set the nowait flag, as worst case all it does is a NOIO
allocation.

For io_uring, this makes a substantial difference. Before:

submitter=0, tid=453, file=/dev/ram0, node=-1
polled=0, fixedbufs=1/0, register_files=1, buffered=0, QD=128
Engine=io_uring, sq_ring=128, cq_ring=128
IOPS=440.03K, BW=1718MiB/s, IOS/call=32/31
IOPS=428.96K, BW=1675MiB/s, IOS/call=32/32
IOPS=442.59K, BW=1728MiB/s, IOS/call=32/31
IOPS=419.65K, BW=1639MiB/s, IOS/call=32/32
IOPS=426.82K, BW=1667MiB/s, IOS/call=32/31

and after:

submitter=0, tid=354, file=/dev/ram0, node=-1
polled=0, fixedbufs=1/0, register_files=1, buffered=0, QD=128
Engine=io_uring, sq_ring=128, cq_ring=128
IOPS=3.37M, BW=13.15GiB/s, IOS/call=32/31
IOPS=3.45M, BW=13.46GiB/s, IOS/call=32/31
IOPS=3.43M, BW=13.42GiB/s, IOS/call=32/32
IOPS=3.43M, BW=13.39GiB/s, IOS/call=32/31
IOPS=3.43M, BW=13.38GiB/s, IOS/call=32/31

or about an 8x in difference. Now that brd is prepared to deal with
REQ_NOWAIT reads/writes, mark it as supporting that.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20230203103005.31290-1-p.raghav@samsung.com/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
 drivers/block/brd.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c
index 20acc4a1..82419e34 100644
--- a/drivers/block/brd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/brd.c
@@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ static int brd_alloc(int i)
 	/* Tell the block layer that this is not a rotational device */
 	blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, disk->queue);
 	blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, disk->queue);
+	blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT, disk->queue);
 	err = add_disk(disk);
 	if (err)
 		goto out_cleanup_disk;
-- 
2.35.3