[PATCH] fuse: wake one waiter per freed slot when raising max_background
From: Baokun Li
Date: Sat Aug 01 2026 - 04:25:59 EST
fuse_get_req() parks background allocations on fch->blocked_waitq via
wait_event_state_exclusive(), so each wakeup releases exactly one
waiter. fuse_chan_max_background_set() clears fch->blocked when the
new limit exceeds num_background, but the accompanying wake_up()
releases a single waiter regardless of how many slots just became
available. Raising max_background from 10 to 100 therefore admits one
request instead of ninety.
The remaining waiters are not permanently stranded — the "else if
(!fch->blocked)" branch in fuse_request_end() wakes one more per
completion — but that only helps while requests keep completing.
Consider a fixed pool of threads doing readahead or async direct I/O
with the quota exhausted: every thread is either in flight or parked,
and each completion wakes one waiter while freeing one slot, a net
change of zero. num_background oscillates around the old limit and
the added quota is never taken up.
Waking one waiter per freed slot also preserves submission order:
once fch->blocked is clear, new callers of fuse_get_req() skip the
waitqueue entirely, overtaking waiters that parked before the limit
was raised.
Use wake_up_nr() with the number of slots that just became available.
Since the wakeup is guarded by !fch->blocked, num_background is
strictly below max_background, so the count is at least 1 and never
degenerates into wake_up_all().
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fuse/dev.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/fuse/dev.c b/fs/fuse/dev.c
index 5763a7cd3b37..2f1ce77357c5 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dev.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c
@@ -397,7 +397,8 @@ void fuse_chan_max_background_set(struct fuse_chan *fch, unsigned int val)
fch->max_background = val;
fch->blocked = fch->num_background >= fch->max_background;
if (!fch->blocked)
- wake_up(&fch->blocked_waitq);
+ wake_up_nr(&fch->blocked_waitq,
+ fch->max_background - fch->num_background);
spin_unlock(&fch->bg_lock);
}
--
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