[RFC v3 0/9] fixed worker

From: Hao Xu
Date: Fri Apr 29 2022 - 06:19:01 EST


This is the third version of fixed worker implementation.
Wrote a nop test program to test it, 3 fixed-workers VS 3 normal workers.
normal workers:
./run_nop_wqe.sh nop_wqe_normal 200000 100 3 1-3
time spent: 10464397 usecs IOPS: 1911242
time spent: 9610976 usecs IOPS: 2080954
time spent: 9807361 usecs IOPS: 2039284

fixed workers:
./run_nop_wqe.sh nop_wqe_fixed 200000 100 3 1-3
time spent: 17314274 usecs IOPS: 1155116
time spent: 17016942 usecs IOPS: 1175299
time spent: 17908684 usecs IOPS: 1116776

About 2x improvement. From perf result, almost no acct->lock contension.
Test program: https://github.com/HowHsu/liburing/tree/fixed_worker
liburing/test/nop_wqe.c

v2->v3:
- change dispatch work strategy from random to round-robin

things to be done:
- Still need some thinking about the work cancellation
- not very sure IO_WORKER_F_EXIT is safe enough on synchronization
- the iowq hash stuff is not compatible with fixed worker for now

Any comments are welcome. Thanks in advance.

Hao Xu (9):
io-wq: add a worker flag for individual exit
io-wq: change argument of create_io_worker() for convienence
io-wq: add infra data structure for fixed workers
io-wq: tweak io_get_acct()
io-wq: fixed worker initialization
io-wq: fixed worker exit
io-wq: implement fixed worker logic
io-wq: batch the handling of fixed worker private works
io_uring: add register fixed worker interface

fs/io-wq.c | 460 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
fs/io-wq.h | 8 +
fs/io_uring.c | 71 ++++++
include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h | 11 +
4 files changed, 501 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)

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