Re: [PATCH 00/10] io_uring/ublk: exit notifier support

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On 9/17/23 10:10 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In do_exit(), io_uring needs to wait pending requests.
> 
> ublk is one uring_cmd driver, and its usage is a bit special by submitting
> command for waiting incoming block IO request in advance, so if there
> isn't any IO request coming, the command can't be completed. So far ublk
> driver has to bind its queue with one ublk daemon server, meantime
> starts one monitor work to check if this daemon is live periodically.
> This way requires ublk queue to be bound one single daemon pthread, and
> not flexible, meantime the monitor work is run in 3rd context, and the
> implementation is a bit tricky.
> 
> The 1st 3 patches adds io_uring task exit notifier, and the other
> patches converts ublk into this exit notifier, and the implementation
> becomes more robust & readable, meantime it becomes easier to relax
> the ublk queue/daemon limit in future, such as not require to bind
> ublk queue with single daemon.

The normal approach for this is to ensure that each request is
cancelable, which we need for other things too (like actual cancel
support). Why can't we just do the same for ublk?

-- 
Jens Axboe




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