Re: [PATCH for-next 00/12] io_uring: retarget rsrc nodes periodically

Dylan Yudaken
2022-11-02T13:08:19Z

On Wed, 2022-11-02 at 11:44 +0000, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 10/31/22 13:41, Dylan Yudaken wrote:
> > There is a problem with long running io_uring requests and rsrc
> > node
> > cleanup, where a single long running request can block cleanup of
> > all
> > subsequent nodes. For example a network server may have both long
> > running
> > accepts and also use registered files for connections. When sockets
> > are
> > closed and returned (either through close_direct, or through
> > register_files_update) the underlying file will not be freed until
> > that
> > original accept completes. For the case of multishot this may be
> > the
> > lifetime of the application, which will cause file numbers to grow
> > unbounded - resulting in either OOMs or ENFILE errors.
> >
> > To fix this I propose retargeting the rsrc nodes from ongoing
> > requests to
> > the current main request of the io_uring. This only needs to happen
> > for
> > long running requests types, and specifically those that happen as
> > a
> > result of some external event. For this reason I exclude write/send
> > style
> > ops for the time being as even though these can cause this issue in
> > reality it would be unexpected to have a write block for hours.
> > This
> > support can obviously be added later if needed.
>
> Is there a particular reason why it tries to retarget instead of
> downgrading? Taking a file ref / etc.

Downgrading could work - but it is less general as it will not work for
buffers (and whatever future resources get added to this system). If it
could avoid periodic work that would be good but I don't really see how
that would happen

> sounds more robust, e.g.
> what if we send a lingering request and then remove the file
> from the table?

This will work as the file will no longer match, and so cannot
retarget.

> It also doesn't need caching the file index.

Yeah that would be a big benefit. Perhaps we should do that for some
ops (accept/poll) and retarget for others that can have fixed buffers?
It will make the code a bit simpler too for the simple ops.

That being said removing the REQ_F_FIXED_FILE flag from the req sounds
like it might be problematic as flags had historically been constant?

>
>
> > In order to retarget nodes all the outstanding requests (in both
> > poll
> > tables and io-wq) need to be iterated and the request needs to be
> > checked
> > to make sure the retargeting is valid. For example for FIXED_FILE
> > requests
> > this involves ensuring the file is still referenced in the current
> > node.
> > This O(N) operation seems to take ~1ms locally for 30k outstanding
> > requests. Note it locks the io_uring while it happens and so no
> > other work
> > can occur. In order to amortize this cost slightly, I propose
> > running this
> > operation at most every 60 seconds. It is hard coded currently, but
> > would
> > be happy to take suggestions if this should be customizable (and
> > how to do
> > such a thing).
> >
> > Without customizable retargeting period, it's a bit difficult to
> > submit
> > tests for this. I have a test but it obviously takes a many minutes
> > to run
> > which is not going to be acceptable for liburing.
>
> We may also want to trigger it if there are too many rsrc nodes
> queued

In my testing this hasn't really been necessary as the individual nodes
do not take up too much space. But I am happy to add this if you think
it will help.

Also - thanks for the patch reviews, will get those into a v2 once the
general approach is ironed out.

Dylan