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From: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] io_uring: add per-task callback handler
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:22:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 21/02/2020 22:10, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2/21/20 11:30 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> On 21/02/2020 17:50, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 2/21/20 6:51 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>>> On 20/02/2020 23:31, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> For poll requests, it's not uncommon to link a read (or write) after
>>>>> the poll to execute immediately after the file is marked as ready.
>>>>> Since the poll completion is called inside the waitqueue wake up handler,
>>>>> we have to punt that linked request to async context. This slows down
>>>>> the processing, and actually means it's faster to not use a link for this
>>>>> use case.
>>>>>
>>>>> We also run into problems if the completion_lock is contended, as we're
>>>>> doing a different lock ordering than the issue side is. Hence we have
>>>>> to do trylock for completion, and if that fails, go async. Poll removal
>>>>> needs to go async as well, for the same reason.
>>>>>
>>>>> eventfd notification needs special case as well, to avoid stack blowing
>>>>> recursion or deadlocks.
>>>>>
>>>>> These are all deficiencies that were inherited from the aio poll
>>>>> implementation, but I think we can do better. When a poll completes,
>>>>> simply queue it up in the task poll list. When the task completes the
>>>>> list, we can run dependent links inline as well. This means we never
>>>>> have to go async, and we can remove a bunch of code associated with
>>>>> that, and optimizations to try and make that run faster. The diffstat
>>>>> speaks for itself.
>>>>
>>>> So, it piggybacks request execution onto a random task, that happens
>>>> to complete a poll. Did I get it right?
>>>>
>>>> I can't find where it setting right mm, creds, etc., or why it have
>>>> them already.
>>>
>>> Not a random task, the very task that initially tried to do the receive
>>> (or whatever the operation may be). Hence there's no need to set
>>> mm/creds/whatever, we're still running in the context of the original
>>> task once we retry the operation after the poll signals readiness.
>>
>> Got it. Then, it may happen in the future after returning from
>> __io_arm_poll_handler() and io_uring_enter(). And by that time io_submit_sqes()
>> should have already restored creds (i.e. personality stuff) on the way back.
>> This might be a problem.
> 
> Not sure I follow, can you elaborate? Just to be sure, the requests that
> go through the poll handler will go through __io_queue_sqe() again. Oh I
> guess your point is that that is one level below where we normally
> assign the creds.

Yeah, exactly. Poll handler won't do the personality dancing, as it doesn't go
through io_submit_sqes().

> 
>> BTW, Is it by design, that all requests of a link use personality creds
>> specified in the head's sqe?
> 
> No, I think that's more by accident. We should make sure they use the
> specified creds, regardless of the issue time. Care to clean that up?
> Would probably help get it right for the poll case, too.

Ok, I'll prepare

-- 
Pavel Begunkov

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-21 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-20 20:31 [PATCHSET 0/9] io_uring: use polled async retry Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 20:31 ` [PATCH 1/9] io_uring: consider any io_read/write -EAGAIN as final Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 20:31 ` [PATCH 2/9] io_uring: io_accept() should hold on to submit reference on retry Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 20:31 ` [PATCH 3/9] sched: move io-wq/workqueue worker sched in/out into helpers Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 20:31 ` [PATCH 4/9] task_work_run: don't take ->pi_lock unconditionally Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 20:31 ` [PATCH 5/9] kernel: abstract out task work helpers Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 21:07   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-20 21:08     ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 20:31 ` [PATCH 6/9] sched: add a sched_work list Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 21:17   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-20 21:53     ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 22:02       ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 20:31 ` [PATCH 7/9] io_uring: add per-task callback handler Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 22:02   ` Jann Horn
2020-02-20 22:14     ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 22:18       ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 22:25         ` Jann Horn
2020-02-20 22:23       ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 22:38         ` Jann Horn
2020-02-20 22:56           ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 22:58             ` Jann Horn
2020-02-20 23:02               ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 22:23       ` Jann Horn
2020-02-20 23:00         ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 23:12           ` Jann Horn
2020-02-20 23:22             ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-21  1:29               ` Jann Horn
2020-02-21 17:32                 ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-21 19:24                   ` Jann Horn
2020-02-21 20:18                     ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 22:56     ` Jann Horn
2020-02-21 10:47     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 14:49       ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-21 15:02         ` Jann Horn
2020-02-21 16:12           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 16:23         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 20:13           ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-21 13:51   ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-21 14:50     ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-21 18:30       ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-21 19:10         ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-21 19:22           ` Pavel Begunkov [this message]
2020-02-23  6:00           ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-23  6:26             ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-23 11:02               ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-23 14:49                 ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-23 14:58                   ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-23 15:07                     ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-23 18:04                       ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-23 18:06                         ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-23 17:55                   ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-20 20:31 ` [PATCH 8/9] io_uring: mark requests that we can do poll async in io_op_defs Jens Axboe
2020-02-20 20:31 ` [PATCH 9/9] io_uring: use poll driven retry for files that support it Jens Axboe

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