Re: [PATCH 0/2] io_uring/io-wq: respect cgroup cpusets

[Jens Axboe]

On 9/10/24 8:33 AM, Felix Moessbauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this series continues the affinity cleanup work started in
> io_uring/sqpoll. It has been tested against the liburing testsuite
> (make runtests), whereby the read-mshot test always fails:
> 
>   Running test read-mshot.t
>   Buffer ring register failed -22
>   test_inc 0 0 failed                                                                                                                          
>   Test read-mshot.t failed with ret 1     
> 
> However, this test also fails on a non-patched linux-next @ 
> bc83b4d1f086.

That sounds very odd... What liburing are you using? On old kernels
where provided buffer rings aren't available the test should just skip,
new ones it should pass. Only thing I can think of is that your liburing
repo isn't current?

> The test wq-aff.t succeeds if at least cpu 0,1 are in the set and
> fails otherwise. This is expected, as the test wants to pin on these
> cpus. I'll send a patch for liburing to skip that test in case this
> pre-condition is not met.
> 
> Regarding backporting: I would like to backport these patches to 6.1 as
> well, as they affect our realtime applications. However, in-between 6.1
> and next there is a major change da64d6db3bd3 ("io_uring: One wqe per
> wq"), which makes the backport tricky. While I don't think we want to
> backport this change, would a dedicated backport of the two pinning
> patches for the old multi-queue implementation have a chance to be accepted?

Let's not backport that patch, just because it's pretty invasive. It's
fine to have a separate backport patch of them for -stable, in this case
we'll have one version for stable kernels new enough to have that
change, and one for older versions. Thankfully not that many to care
about.

-- 
Jens Axboe