Re: [PATCH 0/5] fixes for REQ_F_COMP_LOCKED

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On 10/13/20 3:46 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 13/10/2020 09:43, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> This removes REQ_F_COMP_LOCKED to fix a couple of problems with it.
>>
>> [5/5] is harsh and some work should be done to ease the aftermath,
>> i.e. io_submit_flush_completions() and maybe fail_links().
>>
>> Another way around would be to replace the flag with an comp_locked
>> argument in put_req(), free_req() and so on, but IMHO in a long run
>> removing it should be better.
>>
>> note: there is a new io_req_task_work_add() call in [5/5]. Jens,
>> could you please verify whether passed @twa_signal_ok=true is ok,
>> because I don't really understand the difference.

It should be fine, the only case that can't use 'true' is when it's
called from within the waitqueue handler as we can recurse on that
lock.

Luckily that'll all go away once the TWA_SIGNAL improvement patches
are ready.

> btw, when I copied task_work_add(TWA_RESUME) from __io_free_req(),
> tasks were hanging sleeping uninterruptibly, and fail_links()
> wasn't waking them. It looks like the deferring branch of
> __io_free_req() is buggy as well and should use
> io_req_task_work_add().

Probably related to exit conditions.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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