[PATCH] aio-posix: avoid reacquiring rcu_read_lock() when polling

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

The first rcu_read_lock/unlock() is expensive.  Nested calls are cheap.

This optimization increases IOPS from 73k to 162k with a Linux guest
that has 2 virtio-blk,num-queues=1 and 99 virtio-blk,num-queues=32
devices.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
---
 util/aio-posix.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/util/aio-posix.c b/util/aio-posix.c
index a4977f538e..f67f5b34e9 100644
--- a/util/aio-posix.c
+++ b/util/aio-posix.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
 #include "block/block.h"
+#include "qemu/rcu.h"
 #include "qemu/rcu_queue.h"
 #include "qemu/sockets.h"
 #include "qemu/cutils.h"
@@ -514,6 +515,16 @@ static bool run_poll_handlers_once(AioContext *ctx, 
int64_t *timeout)
     bool progress = false;
     AioHandler *node;
 
+    /*
+     * Optimization: ->io_poll() handlers often contain RCU read critical
+     * sections and we therefore see many rcu_read_lock() -> rcu_read_unlock()
+     * -> rcu_read_lock() -> ... sequences with expensive memory
+     * synchronization primitives.  Make the entire polling loop an RCU
+     * critical section because nested rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() calls
+     * are cheap.
+     */
+    RCU_READ_LOCK_GUARD();
+
     QLIST_FOREACH_RCU(node, &ctx->aio_handlers, node) {
         if (!node->deleted && node->io_poll &&
             aio_node_check(ctx, node->is_external) &&
-- 
2.24.1