[PATCH 06/14] nvmet: use unlikely for uncommon commands
Keith Busch
kbusch at kernel.org
Mon Aug 10 16:46:27 EDT 2020
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:54:48AM -0700, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> I/O commands (nvme_cmd_read, nvme_cmd_write) are most common commands
> when accessing passthru controller, most controllers should not
> have set the effects for r/w I/O commnds (atleast I don't know at this
> moment).
The method that gets effects actually always returns 0 for IO commands,
which is the case if you are sending this command to a namespace.
> effects = nvme_command_effects(ctrl, ns, req->cmd->common.opcode);
In which case you could skip retrieving effects if ns != NULL.
> - if (req->p.use_workqueue || effects) {
> + if (unlikely(req->p.use_workqueue || effects)) {
> INIT_WORK(&req->p.work, nvmet_passthru_execute_cmd_work);
> req->p.rq = rq;
> schedule_work(&req->p.work);
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