ublk: initialize io_desc on daemon task

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ublk_setup_iod() is currently called to populate struct ublksrv_io_desc
on the thread submitting I/O to a ublk device. However, only the ublk
server threads read the io_descs. This basically guarantees a cache miss
on both threads for each ublk I/O. There's really no need to initialize
the io_descs on the submitting thread. Move the ublk_setup_iod() call to
ublk_dispatch_req() (for non-UBLK_F_BATCH_IO) and
__ublk_batch_prep_dispatch() (for UBLK_F_BATCH_IO), which runs on the
ublk server daemon thread before dispatching the I/O to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803211441.2538144-5-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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Caleb Sander Mateos 2026-08-03 15:14:36 -06:00 • committed by Jens Axboe

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