[PATCH for-next v2 0/6] io_uring: defer task work to when it is needed

Dylan Yudaken
2022-08-16T15:38:58Z

We have seen workloads which suffer due to the way task work is currently
scheduled. This scheduling can cause non-trivial tasks to run interrupting
useful work on the workload. For example in network servers, a large async
recv may run, calling memcpy on a large packet, interrupting a send. Which
would add latency.

This series adds an option to defer async work until user space calls
io_uring_enter with the GETEVENTS flag. This allows the workload to choose
when to schedule async work and have finer control (at the expense of
complexity of managing this) of scheduling.

Patches 1,2 are prep patches
Patch 3 changes io_uring_enter to not pre-run task work
Patch 4/5/6 adds the new flag and functionality

Changes since v1:
- Removed the first patch (using ctx variable) which was broken
- Require IORING_SETUP_SINGLE_ISSUER and make sure waiter task
is the same as the submitter task
- Just don't run task work at the start of io_uring_enter (Pavel's
suggestion)
- Remove io_move_task_work_from_local
- Fix locking bugs

Dylan Yudaken (6):
io_uring: remove unnecessary variable
io_uring: introduce io_has_work
io_uring: do not run task work at the start of io_uring_enter
io_uring: add IORING_SETUP_DEFER_TASKRUN
io_uring: move io_eventfd_put
io_uring: signal registered eventfd to process deferred task work

include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 3 +
include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h | 7 ++
io_uring/cancel.c | 2 +-
io_uring/io_uring.c | 222 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
io_uring/io_uring.h | 30 ++++-
io_uring/rsrc.c | 2 +-
6 files changed, 215 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)

base-commit: 5993000dc6b31b927403cee65fbc5f9f070fa3e4
prerequisite-patch-id: cb1d024945aa728d09a131156140a33d30bc268b
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