On 04/04/2021 11:57, Hao Xu wrote:
> 在 2021/4/2 下午6:48, Pavel Begunkov 写道:
>> On 02/04/2021 11:32, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>> On 02/04/2021 09:52, Hao Xu wrote:
>>>> 在 2021/4/1 下午10:57, Jens Axboe 写道:
>>>>> S_ISBLK is marked as unbounded work for async preparation, because it
>>>>> doesn't match S_ISREG. That is incorrect, as any read/write to a block
>>>>> device is also a bounded operation. Fix it up and ensure that S_ISBLK
>>>>> isn't marked unbounded.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>> Hi Jens, I saw a (un)bounded work is for a (un)bounded worker to
>>>> execute. What is the difference between bounded and unbounded?
>>>
>>> Unbounded works are not bounded in execution time, i.e. they may take
>>> forever to complete. E.g. recv depends on the other end to send something,
>>> that not necessarily will ever happen.
>>
>> To elaborate a bit, one example of how it's used: because unbounded may
>> stay for long, it always spawns a new worker thread for each of them.
>>
>> If app submits SQEs as below, and send's are not actually sent for execution
>> but stashed somewhere internally in a list, e.g. waiting for a worker thread
>> to get free, it would just hang from the userspace perspective.
>>
>> recv(fd1), recv(fd1), send(fd1), send(fd1)
>>
> Hi Pavel, thank you for the patient explanation, I got the meaning of
> bound/unbond now, but it seems there is no difference handling bounded and unbounded work in the current code?
It was used in io-wq, so see in io-wq.[c,h] files. Not sure about 5.12+, but
a quick look shows:
wqe->acct[IO_WQ_ACCT_BOUND].max_workers = bounded;
...
wqe->acct[IO_WQ_ACCT_UNBOUND].max_workers =
task_rlimit(current, RLIMIT_NPROC);
>>>>> diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
>>>>> index 6d7a1b69712b..a16b7df934d1 100644
>>>>> --- a/fs/io_uring.c
>>>>> +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
>>>>> @@ -1213,7 +1213,7 @@ static void io_prep_async_work(struct io_kiocb *req)
>>>>> if (req->flags & REQ_F_ISREG) {
>>>>> if (def->hash_reg_file || (ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL))
>>>>> io_wq_hash_work(&req->work, file_inode(req->file));
>>>>> - } else {
>>>>> + } else if (!req->file || !S_ISBLK(file_inode(req->file)->i_mode)) {
>>>>> if (def->unbound_nonreg_file)
>>>>> req->work.flags |= IO_WQ_WORK_UNBOUND;
>>>>> }
>>
>
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Pavel Begunkov
