Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Optimise io_uring completion waiting

From: Pavel Begunkov
Date: Tue Sep 24 2019 - 03:06:20 EST


On 24/09/2019 02:00, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> I think we can do the same thing, just wrapping the waitqueue in a
>> structure with a count in it, on the stack. Got some flight time
>> coming up later today, let me try and cook up a patch.
>
> Totally untested, and sent out 5 min before departure... But something
> like this.
Hmm, reminds me my first version. Basically that's the same thing but
with macroses inlined. I wanted to make it reusable and self-contained,
though.

If you don't think it could be useful in other places, sure, we could do
something like that. Is that so?

>
>
> diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
> index ca7570aca430..c2f9e1da26dd 100644
> --- a/fs/io_uring.c
> +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
> @@ -2768,6 +2768,37 @@ static int io_ring_submit(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, unsigned int to_submit,
> return submit;
> }
>
> +struct io_wait_queue {
> + struct wait_queue_entry wq;
> + struct io_ring_ctx *ctx;
> + struct task_struct *task;
> + unsigned to_wait;
> + unsigned nr_timeouts;
> +};
> +
> +static inline bool io_should_wake(struct io_wait_queue *iowq)
> +{
> + struct io_ring_ctx *ctx = iowq->ctx;
> +
> + return io_cqring_events(ctx->rings) >= iowq->to_wait ||
> + atomic_read(&ctx->cq_timeouts) != iowq->nr_timeouts;
> +}
> +
> +static int io_wake_function(struct wait_queue_entry *curr, unsigned int mode,
> + int wake_flags, void *key)
> +{
> + struct io_wait_queue *iowq = container_of(curr, struct io_wait_queue,
> + wq);
> +
> + if (io_should_wake(iowq)) {
> + list_del_init(&curr->entry);
> + wake_up_process(iowq->task);
> + return 1;
> + }
> +
> + return -1;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Wait until events become available, if we don't already have some. The
> * application must reap them itself, as they reside on the shared cq ring.
> @@ -2775,8 +2806,16 @@ static int io_ring_submit(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, unsigned int to_submit,
> static int io_cqring_wait(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, int min_events,
> const sigset_t __user *sig, size_t sigsz)
> {
> + struct io_wait_queue iowq = {
> + .wq = {
> + .func = io_wake_function,
> + .entry = LIST_HEAD_INIT(iowq.wq.entry),
> + },
> + .task = current,
> + .ctx = ctx,
> + .to_wait = min_events,
> + };
> struct io_rings *rings = ctx->rings;
> - unsigned nr_timeouts;
> int ret;
>
> if (io_cqring_events(rings) >= min_events)
> @@ -2795,15 +2834,16 @@ static int io_cqring_wait(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, int min_events,
> return ret;
> }
>
> - nr_timeouts = atomic_read(&ctx->cq_timeouts);
> - /*
> - * Return if we have enough events, or if a timeout occured since
> - * we started waiting. For timeouts, we always want to return to
> - * userspace.
> - */
> - ret = wait_event_interruptible(ctx->wait,
> - io_cqring_events(rings) >= min_events ||
> - atomic_read(&ctx->cq_timeouts) != nr_timeouts);
> + iowq.nr_timeouts = atomic_read(&ctx->cq_timeouts);
> + prepare_to_wait_exclusive(&ctx->wait, &iowq.wq, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> + do {
> + if (io_should_wake(&iowq))
> + break;
> + schedule();
> + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> + } while (1);
> + finish_wait(&ctx->wait, &iowq.wq);
> +
> restore_saved_sigmask_unless(ret == -ERESTARTSYS);
> if (ret == -ERESTARTSYS)
> ret = -EINTR;
>

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Yours sincerely,
Pavel Begunkov

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