On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 02:11:29PM +0300, Pavel Begunkov wrote: > @@ -2717,15 +2757,18 @@ static int io_cqring_wait(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, int min_events, > return ret; > } > > + iowq.nr_timeouts = atomic_read(&ctx->cq_timeouts); > + prepare_to_wait_exclusive(&ctx->wait, &iowq.wq, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); > + do { > + if (io_should_wake(&iowq)) > + break; > + schedule(); > + if (signal_pending(current)) > + break; > + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); > + } while (1); > + finish_wait(&ctx->wait, &iowq.wq); It it likely OK, but for paranoia, I'd prefer this form: for (;;) { prepare_to_wait_exclusive(&ctx->wait, &iowq.wq, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); if (io_should_wake(&iowq)) break; schedule(); if (signal_pending(current)) break; } finish_wait(&ctx->wait, &iowq.wq); The thing is, if we ever succeed with io_wake_function() (that CPU observes io_should_wake()), but when waking here, we do not observe is_wake_function() and go sleep again, we might never wake up if we don't put ourselves back on the wait-list again.