From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>,
io-uring <io-uring@vger.kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/18] io-wq: fork worker threads from original task
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 13:54:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <397f1046-ee2b-d27e-2063-79567f7cfb98@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wiDYfkuH1cAk_oZDZ8ZzZP1zuaXcQv34P5z_JJi038fZQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 3/4/21 1:50 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:54 AM Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
>>
>> I agree, here are the two current patches. Just need to add the signal
>> blocking, which I'd love to do in create_io_thread(), but seems to
>> require either an allocation or provide a helper to do it in the thread
>> itself (with an on-stack mask).
>
> Hmm. Why do you set SIGCHLD in create_io_thread()? Do you actually use
> it? Shouldn't IO thread exit be a silent thing?
Good catch, I will drop that.
> And why do you have those task_thread_bound() and
> task_thread_unbound() functions? As far as I can tell, you have those
> two functions just to set the process worker flags.
Already dropped that, it's not in the current set.
> Why don't you just do that now inside create_io_worker(), and the
> whole task_thread_[un]bound() thing goes away, and you just always
> start the IO thread in task_thread() itself?
That's exactly what I did:
https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/commit/?h=io_uring-5.12&id=dda3b920327093a2bb8c2e5db26db9203d7f60e6
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-04 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-19 17:09 [PATCHSET RFC 0/18] Remove kthread usage from io_uring Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:09 ` [PATCH 01/18] io_uring: remove the need for relying on an io-wq fallback worker Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 20:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-02-19 20:37 ` Jens Axboe
2021-02-22 13:46 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-19 17:09 ` [PATCH 02/18] io-wq: don't create any IO workers upfront Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:09 ` [PATCH 03/18] io_uring: disable io-wq attaching Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:09 ` [PATCH 04/18] io-wq: get rid of wq->use_refs Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:09 ` [PATCH 05/18] io_uring: tie async worker side to the task context Jens Axboe
2021-02-20 8:11 ` Hao Xu
2021-02-20 14:38 ` Jens Axboe
2021-02-21 9:16 ` Hao Xu
2021-02-19 17:09 ` [PATCH 06/18] io-wq: don't pass 'wqe' needlessly around Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:09 ` [PATCH 07/18] arch: setup PF_IO_WORKER threads like PF_KTHREAD Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 22:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-02-19 23:26 ` Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:10 ` [PATCH 08/18] kernel: treat PF_IO_WORKER like PF_KTHREAD for ptrace/signals Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:10 ` [PATCH 09/18] io-wq: fork worker threads from original task Jens Axboe
2021-03-04 12:23 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-03-04 13:05 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-04 13:19 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-03-04 16:13 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-03-04 16:42 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-04 17:09 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-03-04 17:32 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-04 18:19 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-04 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-04 19:19 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-04 19:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-04 19:54 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-04 20:00 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-04 20:23 ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-04 20:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-04 20:54 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2021-03-05 19:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-05 19:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-02-19 17:10 ` [PATCH 10/18] io-wq: worker idling always returns false Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:10 ` [PATCH 11/18] io_uring: remove any grabbing of context Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:10 ` [PATCH 12/18] io_uring: remove io_identity Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:10 ` [PATCH 13/18] io-wq: only remove worker from free_list, if it was there Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:10 ` [PATCH 14/18] io-wq: make io_wq_fork_thread() available to other users Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:10 ` [PATCH 15/18] io_uring: move SQPOLL thread io-wq forked worker Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:10 ` [PATCH 16/18] Revert "proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/thread-self components" Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:10 ` [PATCH 17/18] Revert "proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/self components" Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 17:10 ` [PATCH 18/18] net: remove cmsg restriction from io_uring based send/recvmsg calls Jens Axboe
2021-02-19 23:44 ` [PATCHSET RFC 0/18] Remove kthread usage from io_uring Stefan Metzmacher
2021-02-19 23:51 ` Jens Axboe
2021-02-21 5:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-02-21 21:22 ` Jens Axboe
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