Re: io_uring: releasing CPU resources when polling

[Jens Axboe]

On 3/25/24 9:23 PM, Xue wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope this message finds you well.
> 
> I'm waiting to follow up on the patch I submitted on 3.18,
> titled "io_uring: releasing CPU resources when polling".
> 
> I haven't received feedback yet and wondering if you had
> a chance to look at it. Any guidance or suggestions you could
> provide would be greatly appreciated.

I did take a look at it, and I have to be honest - I don't like it at
all. It's a lot of expensive code in the fast path, for a problem that
should not really exist. The system is misconfigured if you're doing
polled IO for devices that don't have a poll queue. At some point the
block layer returned -EOPNOTSUPP for that, and honestly I think that's a
MUCH better solution than adding expensive code in the fast path for
something that is really a badly configured setup.

-- 
Jens Axboe