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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>,
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
	io-uring@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: io_uring vs CPU hotplug, was Re: [PATCH 5/9] blk-mq: don't set data->ctx and data->hctx in blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 08:45:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f893bb8-66a9-d311-ebd8-d5ccd8302a0d@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200520080357.GA4197@lst.de>

On 5/20/20 2:03 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:04:24AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 09:18:23AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 05:30:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 09:54:20AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>>>>> As Thomas clarified, workqueue hasn't such issue any more, and only other
>>>>> per CPU kthreads can run until the CPU clears the online bit.
>>>>>
>>>>> So the question is if IO can be submitted from such kernel context?
>>>>
>>>> What other per-CPU kthreads even exist?
>>>
>>> I don't know, so expose to wider audiences.
>>
>> One user is io uring with IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL & IORING_SETUP_SQ_AFF, see
>> io_sq_offload_start(), and it is a IO submission kthread.
> 
> As far as I can tell that code is buggy, as it still needs to migrate
> the thread away when the cpu is offlined.  This isn't a per-cpu kthread
> in the sene of having one for each CPU.
> 
> Jens?

It just uses kthread_create_on_cpu(), nothing home grown. Pretty sure
they just break affinity if that CPU goes offline.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-20 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-18  6:39 blk-mq: improvement CPU hotplug (simplified version) v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18  6:39 ` [PATCH 1/9] blk-mq: split out a __blk_mq_get_driver_tag helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18  6:39 ` [PATCH 2/9] blk-mq: remove the bio argument to ->prepare_request Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18  6:39 ` [PATCH 3/9] blk-mq: simplify the blk_mq_get_request calling convention Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18  6:39 ` [PATCH 4/9] blk-mq: merge blk_mq_rq_ctx_init into __blk_mq_alloc_request Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18  6:39 ` [PATCH 5/9] blk-mq: don't set data->ctx and data->hctx in blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18  8:32   ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-18  9:31     ` Ming Lei
2020-05-18 10:42       ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-18 11:54         ` Ming Lei
2020-05-18 13:16           ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18 14:11             ` Ming Lei
2020-05-18 16:56               ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18 18:38                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-18 18:45                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18 18:59                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-19  1:54                 ` Ming Lei
2020-05-19 15:30                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-20  1:18                     ` Ming Lei
2020-05-20  3:04                       ` Ming Lei
2020-05-20  8:03                         ` io_uring vs CPU hotplug, was " Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-20 14:45                           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2020-05-20 15:20                             ` Jens Axboe
2020-05-20 15:31                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-20 19:41                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-20 20:18                                 ` Jens Axboe
2020-05-20 22:14                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-20 22:40                                     ` Jens Axboe
2020-05-21  2:27                                     ` Ming Lei
2020-05-21  8:13                                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-21  9:23                                         ` Ming Lei
2020-05-21 18:39                                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-21 18:45                                             ` Jens Axboe
2020-05-21 20:00                                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-22  1:57                                             ` Ming Lei
2020-05-18 18:47             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-18 13:18           ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-18  6:39 ` [PATCH 6/9] blk-mq: don't set data->ctx and data->hctx in __blk_mq_alloc_request Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18  6:39 ` [PATCH 7/9] blk-mq: disable preemption during allocating request tag Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18  6:39 ` [PATCH 8/9] blk-mq: add blk_mq_all_tag_iter Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18  6:39 ` [PATCH 9/9] blk-mq: drain I/O when all CPUs in a hctx are offline Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-18  8:42   ` John Garry
2020-05-18  9:21     ` Ming Lei
2020-05-18 11:49 ` blk-mq: improvement CPU hotplug (simplified version) v2 John Garry
2020-05-19 15:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-19 17:17     ` John Garry
2020-05-20 14:35     ` John Garry

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