Re: [PATCH 1/2] io_uring: clear TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL when running task work

Pavel Begunkov
2021-08-09T10:35:35Z

On 8/9/21 5:50 AM, Nadav Amit wrote:
>> On Aug 8, 2021, at 9:07 PM, Hao Xu <haoxu@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>> 在 2021/8/9 上午1:31, Nadav Amit 写道:
>>>> On Aug 8, 2021, at 5:55 AM, Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 8/8/21 1:13 AM, Nadav Amit wrote:
>>>>> From: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> When using SQPOLL, the submission queue polling thread calls
>>>>> task_work_run() to run queued work. However, when work is added with
>>>>> TWA_SIGNAL - as done by io_uring itself - the TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL remains
>>>>
>>>> static int io_req_task_work_add(struct io_kiocb *req)
>>>> {
>>>> ...
>>>> notify = (req->ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL) ? TWA_NONE : TWA_SIGNAL;
>>>> if (!task_work_add(tsk, &tctx->task_work, notify))
>>>> ...
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> io_uring doesn't set TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL for SQPOLL. But if you see it, I'm
>>>> rather curious who does.
>>> I was saying io-uring, but I meant io-uring in the wider sense:
>>> io_queue_worker_create().
>>> Here is a call trace for when TWA_SIGNAL is used. io_queue_worker_create()
>>> uses TWA_SIGNAL. It is called by io_wqe_dec_running(), and not shown due
>>> to inlining:
>> Hi Nadav, Pavel,
>> How about trying to make this kind of call to use TWA_NONE for sqthread,
>> though I know for this case currently there is no info to get to know if
>> task is sqthread. I think we shouldn't kick sqthread.
>
> It is possible, but it would break the abstractions and propagating
> it would be disgusting. Let me give it some thought.

We already do io_wq_enqueue() only from the right task context,
so in theory instead of pushing it through tw, we can create
a new thread on the spot. Though, would need to be careful
with locking.

Anyway, agree that it's better to be left for next.

> Regardless, I think that this patch should go to 5.14 and stable,
> and any solution to avoid kicking the SQ should come on top (to be
> safe).

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Pavel Begunkov