Re: [PATCH 4/4] io_uring: mark opcodes that always need io-wq punt

[Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 05:10:41PM +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 4/25/23 16:07, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 08:50:33AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > On 4/25/23 8:42?AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 07:31:10AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > > On 4/24/23 8:50?PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 08:18:02PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > > > > On 4/24/23 8:13?PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 08:08:09PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On 4/24/23 6:57?PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 09:24:33AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > On 4/24/23 1:30?AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 12:31:35PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > > > Add an opdef bit for them, and set it for the opcodes where we always
> > > > > > > > > > > > > need io-wq punt. With that done, exclude them from the file_can_poll()
> > > > > > > > > > > > > check in terms of whether or not we need to punt them if any of the
> > > > > > > > > > > > > NO_OFFLOAD flags are set.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> > > > > > > > > > > > > ---
> > > > > > > > > > > > >   io_uring/io_uring.c |  2 +-
> > > > > > > > > > > > >   io_uring/opdef.c    | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
> > > > > > > > > > > > >   io_uring/opdef.h    |  2 ++
> > > > > > > > > > > > >   3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > > diff --git a/io_uring/io_uring.c b/io_uring/io_uring.c
> > > > > > > > > > > > > index fee3e461e149..420cfd35ebc6 100644
> > > > > > > > > > > > > --- a/io_uring/io_uring.c
> > > > > > > > > > > > > +++ b/io_uring/io_uring.c
> > > > > > > > > > > > > @@ -1948,7 +1948,7 @@ static int io_issue_sqe(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned int issue_flags)
> > > > > > > > > > > > >   		return -EBADF;
> > > > > > > > > > > > >   	if (issue_flags & IO_URING_F_NO_OFFLOAD &&
> > > > > > > > > > > > > -	    (!req->file || !file_can_poll(req->file)))
> > > > > > > > > > > > > +	    (!req->file || !file_can_poll(req->file) || def->always_iowq))
> > > > > > > > > > > > >   		issue_flags &= ~IO_URING_F_NONBLOCK;
> > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > I guess the check should be !def->always_iowq?
> > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > How so? Nobody that takes pollable files should/is setting
> > > > > > > > > > > ->always_iowq. If we can poll the file, we should not force inline
> > > > > > > > > > > submission. Basically the ones setting ->always_iowq always do -EAGAIN
> > > > > > > > > > > returns if nonblock == true.
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > I meant IO_URING_F_NONBLOCK is cleared here for  ->always_iowq, and
> > > > > > > > > > these OPs won't return -EAGAIN, then run in the current task context
> > > > > > > > > > directly.
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > Right, of IO_URING_F_NO_OFFLOAD is set, which is entirely the point of
> > > > > > > > > it :-)
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > But ->always_iowq isn't actually _always_ since fallocate/fsync/... are
> > > > > > > > not punted to iowq in case of IO_URING_F_NO_OFFLOAD, looks the naming of
> > > > > > > > ->always_iowq is a bit confusing?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Yeah naming isn't that great, I can see how that's bit confusing. I'll
> > > > > > > be happy to take suggestions on what would make it clearer.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Except for the naming, I am also wondering why these ->always_iowq OPs
> > > > > > aren't punted to iowq in case of IO_URING_F_NO_OFFLOAD, given it
> > > > > > shouldn't improve performance by doing so because these OPs are supposed
> > > > > > to be slow and always slept, not like others(buffered writes, ...),
> > > > > > can you provide one hint about not offloading these OPs? Or is it just that
> > > > > > NO_OFFLOAD needs to not offload every OPs?
> > > > > 
> > > > > The whole point of NO_OFFLOAD is that items that would normally be
> > > > > passed to io-wq are just run inline. This provides a way to reap the
> > > > > benefits of batched submissions and syscall reductions. Some opcodes
> > > > > will just never be async, and io-wq offloads are not very fast. Some of
> > > > 
> > > > Yeah, seems io-wq is much slower than inline issue, maybe it needs
> > > > to be looked into, and it is easy to run into io-wq for IOSQE_IO_LINK.
> > > 
> > > Indeed, depending on what is being linked, you may see io-wq activity
> > > which is not ideal.
> > 
> > That is why I prefer to fused command for ublk zero copy, because the
> > registering buffer approach suggested by Pavel and Ziyang has to link
> > register buffer OP with the actual IO OP, and it is observed that
> > IOPS drops to 1/2 in 4k random io test with registered buffer approach.
> 
> What's good about it is that you can use linked requests with it
> but you _don't have to_.

Can you explain it a bit?

The register buffer OP has to be done before using it since the buffer
register is done by calling ->uring_cmd().

> 
> Curiously, I just recently compared submitting 8 two-request links
> (16 reqs in total) vs submit(8)+submit(8), all that in a loop.
> The latter was faster. It wasn't a clean experiment, but shows
> that links are not super fast and would be nice to get them better.
> 
> For the register buf approach, I tried it out, looked good to me.
> It outperforms splice requests (with a hack that removes force
> iowq execution) by 5-10% with synthetic benchmark. Works better than
> splice(2) for QD>=2. Let me send it out, perhaps today, so we can
> figure out how it compares against ublk/fused and see the margin is.

Cool!

I will take a look and see if it can be used for ublk zero copy.


Thanks,
Ming