From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: [PATCH 09/31] aio: try to complete poll iocbs without context switch Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 13:30:46 +0200 Message-ID: <20180522113108.25713-10-hch@lst.de> References: <20180522113108.25713-1-hch@lst.de> Cc: Avi Kivity , linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180522113108.25713-1-hch@lst.de> Sender: owner-linux-aio@kvack.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org If we can acquire ctx_lock without spinning we can just remove our iocb from the active_reqs list, and thus complete the iocbs from the wakeup context. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig --- fs/aio.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index 4d1eabce6659..85d9102431db 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -1632,6 +1632,7 @@ static int aio_poll_wake(struct wait_queue_entry *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *key) { struct poll_iocb *req = container_of(wait, struct poll_iocb, wait); + struct aio_kiocb *iocb = container_of(req, struct aio_kiocb, poll); struct file *file = req->file; __poll_t mask = key_to_poll(key); @@ -1647,9 +1648,22 @@ static int aio_poll_wake(struct wait_queue_entry *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, __aio_poll_remove(req); - req->events = mask; - INIT_WORK(&req->work, aio_poll_work); - schedule_work(&req->work); + /* + * Try completing without a context switch if we can acquire ctx_lock + * without spinning. Otherwise we need to defer to a workqueue to + * avoid a deadlock due to the lock order. + */ + if (spin_trylock(&iocb->ki_ctx->ctx_lock)) { + list_del_init(&iocb->ki_list); + spin_unlock(&iocb->ki_ctx->ctx_lock); + + __aio_poll_complete(req, mask); + } else { + req->events = mask; + INIT_WORK(&req->work, aio_poll_work); + schedule_work(&req->work); + } + return 1; } -- 2.17.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-aio' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux AIO, see: http://www.kvack.org/aio/ Don't email: aart@kvack.org