If preempt isn't enabled in the kernel, we can run into hang issues with sqthread submissions. Use cond_resched() to play nice instead of cpu_relax(), if we end up starting the loop and not having any events pending for submissions. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index 854dedd885fa..05a299e80159 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -2438,7 +2438,7 @@ static int io_sq_thread(void *data) * to sleep. */ if (inflight || !time_after(jiffies, timeout)) { - cpu_relax(); + cond_resched(); continue; } -- Jens Axboe