This little tweak restores the behaviour that was before the recent io_worker_handle_work() optimisation patches. It makes the function do cond_resched() and flush_signals() only if there is an actual work to execute. Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io-wq.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/io-wq.c b/fs/io-wq.c index 0e7c6277afcb..8afe5565f57a 100644 --- a/fs/io-wq.c +++ b/fs/io-wq.c @@ -458,10 +458,12 @@ static void io_impersonate_work(struct io_worker *worker, static void io_assign_current_work(struct io_worker *worker, struct io_wq_work *work) { - /* flush pending signals before assigning new work */ - if (signal_pending(current)) - flush_signals(current); - cond_resched(); + if (work) { + /* flush pending signals before assigning new work */ + if (signal_pending(current)) + flush_signals(current); + cond_resched(); + } spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock); worker->cur_work = work; -- 2.24.0