linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2][for-next] cleanup submission path

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Date:   Sun, 27 Oct 2019 11:26:09 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2][for-next] cleanup submission path

On 10/27/19 11:19 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 27/10/2019 19:56, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 10/27/19 10:49 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 10/27/19 10:44 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>>> On 27/10/2019 19:32, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> On 10/27/19 9:35 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>>>>> A small cleanup of very similar but diverged io_submit_sqes() and
>>>>>> io_ring_submit()
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pavel Begunkov (2):
>>>>>>       io_uring: handle mm_fault outside of submission
>>>>>>       io_uring: merge io_submit_sqes and io_ring_submit
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      fs/io_uring.c | 116 ++++++++++++++------------------------------------
>>>>>>      1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> I like the cleanups here, but one thing that seems off is the
>>>>> assumption that io_sq_thread() always needs to grab the mm. If
>>>>> the sqes processed are just READ/WRITE_FIXED, then it never needs
>>>>> to grab the mm.
>>>>> Yeah, we removed it to fix bugs. Personally, I think it would be
>>>> clearer to do lazy grabbing conditionally, rather than have two
>>>> functions. And in this case it's easier to do after merging.
>>>>
>>>> Do you prefer to return it back first?
>>>
>>> Ah I see, no I don't care about that.
>>
>> OK, looked at the post-patches state. It's still not correct. You are
>> grabbing the mm from io_sq_thread() unconditionally. We should not do
>> that, only if the sqes we need to submit need mm context.
>>
> That's what my question to the fix was about :)
> 1. Then, what the case it could fail?
> 2. Is it ok to hold it while polling? It could keep it for quite
> a long time if host is swift, e.g. submit->poll->submit->poll-> ...
> 
> Anyway, I will add it back and resend the patchset.

If possible in a simple way, I'd prefer if we do it as a prep patch and
then queue that up for 5.4 since we now lost that optimization.  Then
layer the other 2 on top of that, since I'll just rebase the 5.5 stuff
on top of that.

If not trivially possible for 5.4, then we'll just have to leave with it
in that release. For that case, you can fold the change in with these
two patches.

-- 
Jens Axboe