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From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/13] io_uring/io-wq: return 2-step work swap scheme
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 08:05:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 2/4/21 7:56 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 04/02/2021 14:52, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 2/4/21 6:52 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>> Saving one lock/unlock for io-wq is not super important, but adds some
>>> ugliness in the code. More important, atomic decs not turning it to zero
>>> for some archs won't give the right ordering/barriers so the
>>> io_steal_work() may pretty easily get subtly and completely broken.
>>>
>>> Return back 2-step io-wq work exchange and clean it up.
>>
>> IIRC, this wasn't done to skip the lock/unlock exchange, which I agree
>> doesn't matter, but to ensure that a link would not need another io-wq
>> punt. And that is a big deal, it's much faster to run it from that
>> same thread, rather than needing a new async queue and new thread grab
>> to get there.
> 
> Right, we just refer to different patches and moments. This one is fine
> in that regard, it just moves returning link from ->do_work() to
> ->free_work().

Got it, looks good then.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-04 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-04 13:51 [PATCH v2 5.12 00/13] a second pack of 5.12 cleanups Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:51 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] io_uring: deduplicate core cancellations sequence Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:51 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] io_uring: refactor scheduling in io_cqring_wait Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:51 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] io_uring: refactor io_cqring_wait Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:51 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] io_uring: refactor io_read for unsupported nowait Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:52 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] io_uring: further simplify do_read error parsing Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:52 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] io_uring: let io_setup_async_rw take care of iovec Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:52 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] io_uring: don't forget to adjust io_size Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:52 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] io_uring: inline io_read()'s iovec freeing Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:52 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] io_uring: highlight read-retry loop Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:52 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] io_uring: treat NONBLOCK and RWF_NOWAIT similarly Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:52 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] io_uring: io_import_iovec return type cleanup Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:52 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] io_uring: deduplicate file table slot calculation Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 13:52 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] io_uring/io-wq: return 2-step work swap scheme Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 14:52   ` Jens Axboe
2021-02-04 14:56     ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-04 15:05       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2021-02-04 15:07 ` [PATCH v2 5.12 00/13] a second pack of 5.12 cleanups Jens Axboe

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