This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled io_uring: adjust defer tw counting to the 6.7-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: io_uring-adjust-defer-tw-counting.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ac5a86385ddc315ee295b54c628fadd528650010 Author: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 17 00:57:26 2024 +0000 io_uring: adjust defer tw counting [ Upstream commit dc12d1799ce710fd90abbe0ced71e7e1ae0894fc ] The UINT_MAX work item counting bias in io_req_local_work_add() in case of !IOU_F_TWQ_LAZY_WAKE works in a sense that we will not miss a wake up, however it's still eerie. In particular, if we add a lazy work item after a non-lazy one, we'll increment it and get nr_tw==0, and subsequent adds may try to unnecessarily wake up the task, which is though not so likely to happen in real workloads. Half the bias, it's still large enough to be larger than any valid ->cq_wait_nr, which is limited by IORING_MAX_CQ_ENTRIES, but further have a good enough of space before it overflows. Fixes: 8751d15426a31 ("io_uring: reduce scheduling due to tw") Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/108b971e958deaf7048342930c341ba90f75d806.1705438669.git.asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/io_uring/io_uring.c b/io_uring/io_uring.c index 7f62f5990152..59f5791c90c3 100644 --- a/io_uring/io_uring.c +++ b/io_uring/io_uring.c @@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@ static inline void io_req_local_work_add(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned flags) nr_tw = nr_tw_prev + 1; /* Large enough to fail the nr_wait comparison below */ if (!(flags & IOU_F_TWQ_LAZY_WAKE)) - nr_tw = -1U; + nr_tw = INT_MAX; req->nr_tw = nr_tw; req->io_task_work.node.next = first;