block: Reorder the request allocation code in blk_mq_submit_bio()

Help the CPU branch predictor in case of a cache hit by handling the cache
hit scenario first.

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241218212246.1073149-2-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Author: bvanassche

block/blk-mq.c

@@ -3125,12 +3125,12 @@ void blk_mq_submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
 		goto queue_exit;
 
 new_request:
-	if (!rq) {
+	if (rq) {
+		blk_mq_use_cached_rq(rq, plug, bio);
+	} else {
 		rq = blk_mq_get_new_requests(q, plug, bio, nr_segs);
 		if (unlikely(!rq))
 			goto queue_exit;
-	} else {
-		blk_mq_use_cached_rq(rq, plug, bio);
 	}
 
 	trace_block_getrq(bio);