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From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>, Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>,
	[email protected],
	Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], John Garry <[email protected]>,
	Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>,
	Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>,
	[email protected]
Subject: io_uring vs CPU hotplug, was Re: [PATCH 5/9] blk-mq: don't set data->ctx and data->hctx in blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 10:03:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200520030424.GI416136@T590>

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:04:24AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 09:18:23AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 05:30:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 09:54:20AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > > As Thomas clarified, workqueue hasn't such issue any more, and only other
> > > > per CPU kthreads can run until the CPU clears the online bit.
> > > > 
> > > > So the question is if IO can be submitted from such kernel context?
> > > 
> > > What other per-CPU kthreads even exist?
> > 
> > I don't know, so expose to wider audiences.
> 
> One user is io uring with IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL & IORING_SETUP_SQ_AFF, see
> io_sq_offload_start(), and it is a IO submission kthread.

As far as I can tell that code is buggy, as it still needs to migrate
the thread away when the cpu is offlined.  This isn't a per-cpu kthread
in the sene of having one for each CPU.

Jens?

       reply	other threads:[~2020-05-20  8:04 UTC|newest]

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2020-05-20  8:03                   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-05-20 14:45                     ` io_uring vs CPU hotplug, was Re: [PATCH 5/9] blk-mq: don't set data->ctx and data->hctx in blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx Jens Axboe
2020-05-20 15:20                       ` Jens Axboe
2020-05-20 15:31                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-20 19:41                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-20 20:18                           ` Jens Axboe
2020-05-20 22:14                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-20 22:40                               ` Jens Axboe
2020-05-21  2:27                               ` Ming Lei
2020-05-21  8:13                                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-21  9:23                                   ` Ming Lei
2020-05-21 18:39                                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-21 18:45                                       ` Jens Axboe
2020-05-21 20:00                                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-22  1:57                                       ` Ming Lei

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