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Work in progress, but get rid of the per-ring serialization of resource nodes, like registered buffers and files. Main issue here is that one node can otherwise hold up a bunch of other nodes from getting freed, which is especially a problem for file resource nodes and networked workloads where some descriptors may not see activity in a long time. As an example, instantiate an io_uring ring fd and create a sparse registered file table. Even 2 will do. Then create a socket and register it as fixed file 0, F0. The number of open files in the app is now 5, with 0/1/2 being the usual stdin/out/err, 3 being the ring fd, and 4 being the socket. Register this socket (eg "the listener") in slot 0 of the registered file table. Now add an operation on the socket that uses slot 0. Finally, loop N times, where each loop creates a new socket, registers said socket as a file, then unregisters the socket, and finally closes the socket. This is roughly similar to what a basic accept loop would look like. At the end of this loop, it's not unreasonable to expect that there would still be 5 open files. Each socket created and registered in the loop is also unregistered and closed. But since the listener socket registered first still has references to its resource node due to still being active, each subsequent socket unregistration is stuck behind it for reclaim. Hence 5 + N files are still open at that point, where N is awaiting the final put held up by the listener socket. Rewrite the io_rsrc_node handling to NOT rely on serialization. Struct io_kiocb now gets explicit resource nodes assigned, with each holding a reference to the parent node. A parent node is either of type FILE or BUFFER, which are the two types of nodes that exist. A request can have two nodes assigned, if it's using both registered files and buffers. Since request issue and task_work completion is both under the ring private lock, no atomics are needed to handle these references. It's a simple unlocked inc/dec. As before, the registered buffer or file table each hold a reference as well to the registered nodes. Final put of the node will remove the node and free the underlying resource, eg unmap the buffer or put the file. Outside of removing the stall in resource reclaim described above, it has the following advantages: 1) It's a lot simpler than the previous scheme, and easier to follow. No need to specific quiesce handling anymore. 2) There are no resource node allocations in the fast path, all of that happens at resource registration time. 3) The structs related to resource handling can all get simplified quite a bit, like io_rsrc_node and io_rsrc_data. io_rsrc_put can go away completely. 4) Handling of resource tags is much simpler, and doesn't require persistent storage as it can simply get assigned up front at registration time. Just copy them in one-by-one at registration time and assign to the resource node. The only real downside is that a request is now explicitly limited to pinning 2 resources, one file and one buffer, where before just assigning a resource node to a request would pin all of them. The upside is that it's easier to follow now, as an individual resource is explicitly referenced and assigned to the request. With this in place, the above mentioned example will be using exactly 5 files at the end of the loop, not N. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.