[PATCH v3 0/6] nbd: eliminate queue freeze/unfreeze overhead in connection setup
- To: josef@toxicpanda.com, axboe@kernel.dk, hch@lst.de, yukuai@kernel.org
- Cc: yi.zhang@huawei.com, chengzhihao1@huawei.com, echo.chenlin@huawei.com, leo.lilong@huaweicloud.com, wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com, yangerkun@huawei.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, nbd@other.debian.org
- Subject: [PATCH v3 0/6] nbd: eliminate queue freeze/unfreeze overhead in connection setup
- From: Yang Erkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:56:38 +0800
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20260713065644.1637594-1-yangerkun@huawei.com>
This series eliminates the blk_mq_freeze_queue()/unfreeze_queue()
overhead that currently occurs during nbd connection setup(nbd provide
ondemand and was using in AI sandbox e2b[1] to mount and attach rootfs).
Each freeze cycle will introduce a RCU grace which was significant
with multi-core system.
time nbd-client --name myexport --connections 96 127.0.0.1 1234
After this patchset:
real 0m0.090s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.018s
Without this patchset:
real 0m2.195s
user 0m0.005s
sys 0m0.022s
v2->v3:
1. Stop using xarray, and protect it by rejecting late NBD_SET_SOCKS
2. Eliminate freeze in nbd_set_size when device setup
3. Add module parameter to eliminate freeze for pre-created device
v1->v2:
1. Rewrite cover letter
2. Eliminate freeze call from blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues in
nbd_start_device for netlink path
[1]. https://github.com/e2b-dev/e2b
Long Li (1):
nbd: simplify find_fallback() by removing redundant logic
Yang Erkun (5):
nbd: disallow NBD_SET_SOCK on an active device
nbd: remove queue freeze in nbd_add_socket
nbd: set nr_hw_queues at device creation to skip queue freeze
nbd: skip queue freeze when setting size at device startup
nbd: add nr_hw_queues module parameter for pre-created devices
drivers/block/nbd.c | 119 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
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2.52.0
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