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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-aio@kvack.org, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v5] Support for polled aio
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 15:06:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <03b82fbf-e4cb-6a80-503c-bc043bdd9e8a@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <796e20df-3f55-af8f-58c3-45e7a6d2009a@kernel.dk>

On 12/7/18 3:00 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 12/7/18 2:59 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 12/7/18 2:58 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 12/7/18 12:35 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> On 12/7/18 12:34 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>>>>> Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> BTW, quick guess is that it doesn't work so well with fixed buffers, as that
>>>>>> hasn't been tested. You could try and remove IOCTX_FLAG_FIXEDBUFS from the
>>>>>> test program and see if that works.
>>>>>
>>>>> That results in a NULL pointer dereference.  I'll stick to block device
>>>>> testing for now.  :)
>>>>
>>>> Good plan :-)
>>>
>>> Took a look and fixed it up, my aio-poll branch has a fixup patch and I
>>> also updated an updated aio-ring.c in the same location.
>>>
>>> Tested XFS with polling on and off, works for me.
>>>
>>> Will take a look at FIXEDBUFS now. Note that aio-ring has some parameters
>>> at the top:
>>>
>>> static int polled = 1;          /* use IO polling */
>>> static int fixedbufs = 0;       /* use fixed user buffers */
>>>
>>> that you can change to try the various modes. Don't use fixedbufs = 1
>>> with XFS just yet :-)
>>
>> Actually, with the other fixups, that works now too. At least in a quick
>> test...
> 
> And no, it does not ;-). Will take a look, we're dropping page counts where
> we should not be.

Forgot to add the BIO_HOLD_PAGES check in iomap, it works now. Pushed out
that fix, will also need folding.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2018-12-07 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-04 23:37 [PATCHSET v5] Support for polled aio Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 01/26] fs: add an iopoll method to struct file_operations Jens Axboe
2018-12-06 19:16   ` Jeff Moyer
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 02/26] block: add REQ_HIPRI_ASYNC Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 03/26] block: wire up block device iopoll method Jens Axboe
2018-12-06 19:11   ` Jeff Moyer
2018-12-06 19:14     ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-06 19:15       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-06 19:25         ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 04/26] block: use REQ_HIPRI_ASYNC for non-sync polled IO Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 05/26] iomap: wire up the iopoll method Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 06/26] aio: use assigned completion handler Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 07/26] aio: separate out ring reservation from req allocation Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 08/26] aio: don't zero entire aio_kiocb aio_get_req() Jens Axboe
2018-12-06 19:27   ` Jeff Moyer
2018-12-06 19:28     ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-06 19:38       ` Jeff Moyer
2018-12-06 19:42         ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 09/26] aio: only use blk plugs for > 2 depth submissions Jens Axboe
2018-12-06 19:29   ` Jeff Moyer
2018-12-06 19:31     ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 10/26] aio: use iocb_put() instead of open coding it Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 11/26] aio: split out iocb copy from io_submit_one() Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 12/26] aio: abstract out io_event filler helper Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 13/26] aio: add io_setup2() system call Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 14/26] aio: add support for having user mapped iocbs Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 15/26] aio: support for IO polling Jens Axboe
2018-12-05  9:56   ` Benny Halevy
2018-12-05 13:10     ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-06  9:04       ` Benny Halevy
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 16/26] aio: add submission side request cache Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 17/26] fs: add fget_many() and fput_many() Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 18/26] aio: use fget/fput_many() for file references Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 19/26] aio: split iocb init from allocation Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 20/26] aio: batch aio_kiocb allocation Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 21/26] block: add BIO_HOLD_PAGES flag Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 22/26] block: implement bio helper to add iter bvec pages to bio Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 23/26] fs: add support for mapping an ITER_BVEC for O_DIRECT Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 24/26] aio: add support for pre-mapped user IO buffers Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 25/26] aio: split old ring complete out from aio_complete() Jens Axboe
2018-12-04 23:37 ` [PATCH 26/26] aio: add support for submission/completion rings Jens Axboe
2018-12-07 18:48 ` [PATCHSET v5] Support for polled aio Jeff Moyer
2018-12-07 18:52   ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-07 18:55     ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-07 19:34       ` Jeff Moyer
2018-12-07 19:35         ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-07 21:58           ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-07 21:59             ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-07 22:00               ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-07 22:06                 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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