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

From: Pavel Begunkov
Date: Tue Sep 24 2019 - 14:28:52 EST


On 24/09/2019 20:46, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 9/24/19 11:33 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> On 24/09/2019 16:13, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 9/24/19 5:23 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>>>> Yep that should do it, and saves 8 bytes of stack as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, did you test my patch, this one or the previous? Just curious if it
>>>>> worked for you.
>>>>>
>>>> Not yet, going to do that tonight
>>>
>>> Thanks! For reference, the final version is below. There was still a
>>> signal mishap in there, now it should all be correct afaict.
>>>
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
>>> index 9b84232e5cc4..d2a86164d520 100644
>>> --- a/fs/io_uring.c
>>> +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
>>> @@ -2768,6 +2768,38 @@ 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;
>>> + unsigned to_wait;
>>> + unsigned nr_timeouts;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +static inline bool io_should_wake(struct io_wait_queue *iowq)
>>> +{
>>> + struct io_ring_ctx *ctx = iowq->ctx;
>>> +
>>> + /*
>>> + * Wake up if we have enough events, or if a timeout occured since we
>>> + * started waiting. For timeouts, we always want to return to userspace,
>>> + * regardless of event count.
>>> + */
>>> + 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))
>>> + return -1;
>>
>> It would try to schedule only the first task in the wait list. Is that the
>> semantic you want?
>> E.g. for waiters=[32,8] and nr_events == 8, io_wake_function() returns
>> after @32, and won't wake up the second one.
>
> Right, those are the semantics I want. We keep the list ordered by using
> the exclusive wait addition. Which means that for the case you list,
> waiters=32 came first, and we should not wake others before that task
> gets the completions it wants. Otherwise we could potentially starve
> higher count waiters, if we always keep going and new waiters come in.
>
Yes. I think It would better to be documented in userspace API. I
could imagine some crazy case deadlocking userspace. E.g.
thread 1: wait_events(8), reap_events
thread 2: wait_events(32), wait(thread 1), reap_events

works well
Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>

BTW, I searched for wait_event*(), and it seems there are plenty of
similar use cases. So, generic case would be useful, but this is for
later.



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Yours sincerely,
Pavel Begunkov

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