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 16:51:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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.
--
Pavel Begunkov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-21 13:52 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 [this message]
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
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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