Now that run_poll_handlers_once() is only called by run_poll_handlers()
we can improve the CPU time profile by moving the expensive
RCU_READ_LOCK() out of the polling loop.

This reduces the run_poll_handlers() from 40% CPU to 10% CPU in perf's
sampling profiler output.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200305170806.1313245-3-stefanha@redhat.com
Message-Id: <20200305170806.1313245-3-stefanha@redhat.com>
---
 util/aio-posix.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/util/aio-posix.c b/util/aio-posix.c
index 65964a2597..11a4971955 100644
--- a/util/aio-posix.c
+++ b/util/aio-posix.c
@@ -583,16 +583,6 @@ 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 (!QLIST_IS_INSERTED(node, node_deleted) && node->io_poll &&
             aio_node_check(ctx, node->is_external) &&
@@ -636,6 +626,16 @@ static bool run_poll_handlers(AioContext *ctx, int64_t max_ns, int64_t *timeout)
 
     trace_run_poll_handlers_begin(ctx, max_ns, *timeout);
 
+    /*
+     * 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();
+
     start_time = qemu_clock_get_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME);
     do {
         progress = run_poll_handlers_once(ctx, timeout);
-- 
2.24.1