From: Yoav Cohen <yoav@nvidia.com>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
<linux-block@vger.kernel.org>, <csander@purestorage.com>
Cc: <jholzman@nvidia.com>, <omril@nvidia.com>, Yoav Cohen <yoav@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] ublk: honor rq_affinity on request completion
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2026 22:03:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261006190348.85094-2-yoav@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261006190348.85094-1-yoav@nvidia.com>
ublk ends successfully completed requests inline on the server thread
that issued UBLK_IO_COMMIT_AND_FETCH_REQ, so rq_affinity never
redirects completion back to the submitting CPU, unlike NVMe, SCSI,
virtio-blk, loop, nbd and rnbd.
Route completion through blk_mq_complete_request_remote(), with a new
->complete() callback, ublk_end_rq(). This covers every completion
outcome -- reads, writes, flush/discard, errors, and the zero-copy/
user-copy/auto-buf-reg/shmem-zc paths that skip the copy-back step --
not just the classic-copy-mode successful-read case, since
ublk_end_rq() re-derives which of those __ublk_complete_rq() took from
@req and @io state rather than assuming one.
Gate it behind a new UBLK_F_SUPPORT_RQ_AFFINITY flag that a server
must request at ADD_DEV time; servers that don't ask for it keep
today's always-local completion unchanged. Add ublk_support_rq_affinity()
alongside the existing ublk_support_*() helpers, and check it before
calling blk_mq_complete_request_remote() at both call sites.
Signed-off-by: Yoav Cohen <yoav@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/block/ublk_drv.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
include/uapi/linux/ublk_cmd.h | 8 +++
2 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
index 66eb55e7162e..b94293296b73 100644
--- a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@
| UBLK_F_BATCH_IO \
| UBLK_F_NO_AUTO_PART_SCAN \
| UBLK_F_SHMEM_ZC \
- | UBLK_F_IO_DESC_SIZE)
+ | UBLK_F_IO_DESC_SIZE \
+ | UBLK_F_SUPPORT_RQ_AFFINITY)
#define UBLK_F_ALL_RECOVERY_FLAGS (UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY \
| UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY_REISSUE \
@@ -452,6 +453,11 @@ static inline bool ublk_support_user_copy(const struct ublk_queue *ubq)
return ubq->flags & UBLK_F_USER_COPY;
}
+static inline bool ublk_support_rq_affinity(const struct ublk_queue *ubq)
+{
+ return ubq->flags & UBLK_F_SUPPORT_RQ_AFFINITY;
+}
+
static inline bool ublk_dev_support_user_copy(const struct ublk_device *ub)
{
return ub->dev_info.flags & UBLK_F_USER_COPY;
@@ -1468,6 +1474,14 @@ static inline bool ublk_need_unmap_req(const struct request *req)
(req_op(req) == REQ_OP_READ || req_op(req) == REQ_OP_DRV_IN);
}
+/* Whether __ublk_complete_rq() takes the copy-back/partial-completion path */
+static inline bool ublk_rq_need_unmap(const struct ublk_queue *ubq,
+ struct request *req)
+{
+ return ublk_need_map_io(ubq) && ublk_need_unmap_req(req) &&
+ !ublk_iod_is_shmem_zc(ubq, req->tag);
+}
+
static unsigned int ublk_map_io(const struct request *req,
const struct ublk_io *io)
{
@@ -1549,13 +1563,62 @@ static void ublk_end_request(struct request *req, blk_status_t error)
local_bh_enable();
}
+/*
+ * Update @req with its result and requeue it if it was only partially
+ * completed. Returns true if @req was requeued, in which case the caller
+ * must not touch it any further.
+ *
+ * Run bio->bi_end_io() with softirqs disabled. If the final fput happens
+ * off this path, then that will prevent ublk's blkdev_release() from
+ * being called on current's task work, see fput() implementation.
+ *
+ * This matters for the caller completing @req locally on the ublk
+ * server's own thread: it may already be holding disk->open_mutex, e.g.
+ * reading the partition table from bdev_open(), and an fput() running
+ * inline there could deadlock on it. Preferably we would not be doing
+ * IO with a mutex held that is also used for release, but this
+ * work-around will suffice for now. A caller reached instead via
+ * blk_mq_complete_request_remote()'s softirq/IPI redirect never runs on
+ * that thread, so it isn't exposed to this hazard, but disabling
+ * softirqs here is harmless for it too.
+ */
+static inline bool ublk_update_and_requeue(struct request *req,
+ struct ublk_io *io)
+{
+ bool requeue;
+
+ local_bh_disable();
+ requeue = blk_update_request(req, BLK_STS_OK, io->res);
+ local_bh_enable();
+ if (requeue)
+ blk_mq_requeue_request(req, true);
+ return requeue;
+}
+
+static void ublk_end_rq(struct request *req)
+{
+ struct ublk_queue *ubq = req->mq_hctx->driver_data;
+ struct ublk_io *io = &ubq->ios[req->tag];
+
+ /* matches the two outcomes __ublk_complete_rq() may have redirected */
+ if (io->res >= 0 && ublk_rq_need_unmap(ubq, req)) {
+ if (!ublk_update_and_requeue(req, io) &&
+ likely(!blk_should_fake_timeout(req->q)))
+ __blk_mq_end_request(req, BLK_STS_OK);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ ublk_end_request(req, io->res < 0 ? errno_to_blk_status(io->res) :
+ BLK_STS_OK);
+}
+
/* todo: handle partial completion */
static inline void __ublk_complete_rq(struct request *req, struct ublk_io *io,
bool need_map, struct io_comp_batch *iob)
{
+ struct ublk_queue *ubq = req->mq_hctx->driver_data;
unsigned int unmapped_bytes;
blk_status_t res = BLK_STS_OK;
- bool requeue;
/* failed read IO if nothing is read */
if (!io->res && req_op(req) == REQ_OP_READ)
@@ -1568,7 +1631,7 @@ static inline void __ublk_complete_rq(struct request *req, struct ublk_io *io,
/* shmem zero copy: no data to unmap, pages already shared */
if (!need_map || !ublk_need_unmap_req(req) ||
- ublk_iod_is_shmem_zc(req->mq_hctx->driver_data, req->tag))
+ ublk_iod_is_shmem_zc(ubq, req->tag))
goto exit;
/* for READ request, writing data in iod->addr to rq buffers */
@@ -1582,31 +1645,18 @@ static inline void __ublk_complete_rq(struct request *req, struct ublk_io *io,
if (unlikely(unmapped_bytes < io->res)) {
if (unlikely(!unmapped_bytes)) {
res = BLK_STS_IOERR;
+ io->res = -EIO;
goto exit;
}
io->res = unmapped_bytes;
}
- /*
- * Run bio->bi_end_io() with softirqs disabled. If the final fput
- * happens off this path, then that will prevent ublk's blkdev_release()
- * from being called on current's task work, see fput() implementation.
- *
- * Otherwise, ublk server may not provide forward progress in case of
- * reading the partition table from bdev_open() with disk->open_mutex
- * held, and causes dead lock as we could already be holding
- * disk->open_mutex here.
- *
- * Preferably we would not be doing IO with a mutex held that is also
- * used for release, but this work-around will suffice for now.
- */
- local_bh_disable();
- requeue = blk_update_request(req, BLK_STS_OK, io->res);
- local_bh_enable();
- if (requeue)
- blk_mq_requeue_request(req, true);
- else if (likely(!blk_should_fake_timeout(req->q))) {
+ if (ublk_support_rq_affinity(ubq) && blk_mq_complete_request_remote(req))
+ return;
+
+ if (!ublk_update_and_requeue(req, io) &&
+ likely(!blk_should_fake_timeout(req->q))) {
if (blk_mq_add_to_batch(req, iob, false, blk_mq_end_request_batch))
return;
__blk_mq_end_request(req, BLK_STS_OK);
@@ -1614,6 +1664,8 @@ static inline void __ublk_complete_rq(struct request *req, struct ublk_io *io,
return;
exit:
+ if (ublk_support_rq_affinity(ubq) && blk_mq_complete_request_remote(req))
+ return;
ublk_end_request(req, res);
}
@@ -2347,6 +2399,7 @@ static const struct blk_mq_ops ublk_mq_ops = {
.queue_rqs = ublk_queue_rqs,
.init_hctx = ublk_init_hctx,
.timeout = ublk_timeout,
+ .complete = ublk_end_rq,
};
static const struct blk_mq_ops ublk_batch_mq_ops = {
@@ -2355,6 +2408,7 @@ static const struct blk_mq_ops ublk_batch_mq_ops = {
.queue_rqs = ublk_batch_queue_rqs,
.init_hctx = ublk_init_hctx,
.timeout = ublk_timeout,
+ .complete = ublk_end_rq,
};
static void ublk_queue_reinit(struct ublk_device *ub, struct ublk_queue *ubq)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ublk_cmd.h b/include/uapi/linux/ublk_cmd.h
index 33b25dd13965..47b5fba9519c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ublk_cmd.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ublk_cmd.h
@@ -420,6 +420,14 @@ struct ublk_shmem_buf_reg {
/* ublksrv_io_desc size is specified by ublksrv_ctrl_dev_info's io_desc_size */
#define UBLK_F_IO_DESC_SIZE (1ULL << 20)
+/*
+ * Request completion honors the block device's rq_affinity setting
+ * (/sys/block/ublkbN/queue/rq_affinity): the submitting CPU's completion
+ * work can run there instead of always on the ublk server's CPU. Without
+ * this feature, rq_affinity has no effect on ublk devices.
+ */
+#define UBLK_F_SUPPORT_RQ_AFFINITY (1ULL << 21)
+
/* device state */
#define UBLK_S_DEV_DEAD 0
#define UBLK_S_DEV_LIVE 1
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-06 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-06 19:03 [PATCH v2 0/2] ublk: honor rq_affinity on request completion Yoav Cohen
2026-10-06 19:03 ` Yoav Cohen [this message]
2026-10-06 21:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Caleb Sander Mateos
2026-10-09 13:43 ` Ming Lei
2026-10-09 15:25 ` Caleb Sander Mateos
2026-10-09 14:04 ` Ming Lei
2026-10-06 19:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests: ublk: add rq_affinity test Yoav Cohen
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