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36 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jens Axboe
7563439adf io-wq: don't call kXalloc_node() with non-online node
Glauber reports a crash on init on a box he has:

 RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x132/0x340
 Code: 18 01 75 04 41 80 ce 80 89 e8 48 8b 54 24 08 8b 74 24 1c c1 e8 0c 48 8b 3c 24 83 e0 01 88 44 24 20 48 85 d2 0f 85 74 01 00 00 <3b> 77 08 0f 82 6b 01 00 00 48 89 7c 24 10 89 ea 48 8b 07 b9 00 02
 RSP: 0018:ffffb8be4d0b7c28 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000000e8e8
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 0000000000002080
 RBP: 0000000000012cc0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000002
 R10: 0000000000000dc0 R11: ffff995c60400100 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: 0000000000012cc0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff995c60db00f0
 FS:  00007f4d115ca900(0000) GS:ffff995c60d80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000002088 CR3: 00000017cca66002 CR4: 00000000007606e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 PKRU: 55555554
 Call Trace:
  alloc_slab_page+0x46/0x320
  new_slab+0x9d/0x4e0
  ___slab_alloc+0x507/0x6a0
  ? io_wq_create+0xb4/0x2a0
  __slab_alloc+0x1c/0x30
  kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xa6/0x260
  io_wq_create+0xb4/0x2a0
  io_uring_setup+0x97f/0xaa0
  ? io_remove_personalities+0x30/0x30
  ? io_poll_trigger_evfd+0x30/0x30
  do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1c0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
 RIP: 0033:0x7f4d116cb1ed

which is due to the 'wqe' and 'worker' allocation being node affine.
But it isn't valid to call the node affine allocation if the node isn't
online.

Setup structures for even offline nodes, as usual, but skip them in
terms of thread setup to not waste resources. If the node isn't online,
just alloc memory with NUMA_NO_NODE.

Reported-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
Tested-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-02-12 17:43:22 -07:00
Jens Axboe
36282881a7 io-wq: add io_wq_cancel_pid() to cancel based on a specific pid
Add a helper that allows the caller to cancel work based on what mm
it belongs to. This allows io_uring to cancel work from a given
task or thread when it exits.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-02-09 09:55:38 -07:00
Jens Axboe
00bcda13dc io-wq: make io_wqe_cancel_work() take a match handler
We want to use the cancel functionality for canceling based on not
just the work itself. Instead of matching on the work address
manually, allow a match handler to tell us if we found the right work
item or not.

No functional changes in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-02-09 09:55:37 -07:00
Jens Axboe
9392a27d88 io-wq: add support for inheriting ->fs
Some work items need this for relative path lookup, make it available
like the other inherited credentials/mm/etc.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.3+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-02-08 13:06:58 -07:00
Jens Axboe
f86cd20c94 io_uring: fix linked command file table usage
We're not consistent in how the file table is grabbed and assigned if we
have a command linked that requires the use of it.

Add ->file_table to the io_op_defs[] array, and use that to determine
when to grab the table instead of having the handlers set it if they
need to defer. This also means we can kill the IO_WQ_WORK_NEEDS_FILES
flag. We always initialize work->files, so io-wq can just check for
that.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-01-29 13:46:44 -07:00
Pavel Begunkov
eba6f5a330 io-wq: allow grabbing existing io-wq
Export a helper to attach to an existing io-wq, rather than setting up
a new one. This is doable now that we have reference counted io_wq's.

Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-01-28 17:44:40 -07:00
Jens Axboe
cccf0ee834 io_uring/io-wq: don't use static creds/mm assignments
We currently setup the io_wq with a static set of mm and creds. Even for
a single-use io-wq per io_uring, this is suboptimal as we have may have
multiple enters of the ring. For sharing the io-wq backend, it doesn't
work at all.

Switch to passing in the creds and mm when the work item is setup. This
means that async work is no longer deferred to the io_uring mm and creds,
it is done with the current mm and creds.

Flag this behavior with IORING_FEAT_CUR_PERSONALITY, so applications know
they can rely on the current personality (mm and creds) being the same
for direct issue and async issue.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-01-28 17:44:20 -07:00
Jens Axboe
848f7e1887 io-wq: make the io_wq ref counted
In preparation for sharing an io-wq across different users, add a
reference count that manages destruction of it.

Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-01-27 15:58:42 -07:00
Jens Axboe
895e2ca0f6 io-wq: support concurrent non-blocking work
io-wq assumes that work will complete fast (and not block), so it
doesn't create a new worker when work is enqueued, if we already have
at least one worker running. This is done on the assumption that if work
is running, then it will complete fast.

Add an option to force io-wq to fork a new worker for work queued. This
is signaled by setting IO_WQ_WORK_CONCURRENT on the work item. For that
case, io-wq will create a new worker, even though workers are already
running.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-01-20 17:03:59 -07:00
Jens Axboe
0c9d5ccd26 io-wq: add support for uncancellable work
Not all work can be cancelled, some of it we may need to guarantee
that it runs to completion. Allow the caller to set IO_WQ_WORK_NO_CANCEL
on work that must not be cancelled. Note that the caller work function
must also check for IO_WQ_WORK_NO_CANCEL on work that is marked
IO_WQ_WORK_CANCEL.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-01-20 17:01:53 -07:00
Jens Axboe
e0bbb3461a io-wq: cancel work if we fail getting a mm reference
If we require mm and user context, mark the request for cancellation
if we fail to acquire the desired mm.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-01-14 22:06:11 -07:00
Hillf Danton
fd1c4bc6e9 io-wq: add cond_resched() to worker thread
Reschedule the current IO worker to cut the risk that it is becoming
a cpu hog.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-12-24 09:14:29 -07:00
Hillf Danton
1f424e8bd1 io-wq: remove unused busy list from io_sqe
Commit e61df66c69 ("io-wq: ensure free/busy list browsing see all
items") added a list for io workers in addition to the free and busy
lists, not only making worker walk cleaner, but leaving the busy list
unused. Let's remove it.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-12-23 08:23:54 -07:00
Brian Gianforcaro
d195a66e36 io_uring: fix stale comment and a few typos
- Fix a few typos found while reading the code.

- Fix stale io_get_sqring comment referencing s->sqe, the 's' parameter
  was renamed to 'req', but the comment still holds.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gianforcaro <b.gianfo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-12-15 14:49:30 -07:00
Jens Axboe
e995d5123e io-wq: briefly spin for new work after finishing work
To avoid going to sleep only to get woken shortly thereafter, spin
briefly for new work upon completion of work.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-12-10 16:33:22 -07:00
Jens Axboe
506d95ff5d io-wq: remove worker->wait waitqueue
We only have one cases of using the waitqueue to wake the worker, the
rest are using wake_up_process(). Since we can save some cycles not
fiddling with the waitqueue io_wqe_worker(), switch the work activation
to task wakeup and get rid of the now unused wait_queue_head_t in
struct io_worker.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-12-10 16:33:22 -07:00
Jens Axboe
0b8c0ec7ee io_uring: use current task creds instead of allocating a new one
syzbot reports:

kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled
kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 0 PID: 9217 Comm: io_uring-sq Not tainted 5.4.0-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:creds_are_invalid kernel/cred.c:792 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__validate_creds include/linux/cred.h:187 [inline]
RIP: 0010:override_creds+0x9f/0x170 kernel/cred.c:550
Code: ac 25 00 81 fb 64 65 73 43 0f 85 a3 37 00 00 e8 17 ab 25 00 49 8d 7c
24 10 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 84
c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 96 00 00 00 41 8b 5c 24 10 bf
RSP: 0018:ffff88809c45fda0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000043736564 RCX: ffffffff814f3318
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffff814f3329 RDI: 0000000000000010
RBP: ffff88809c45fdb8 R08: ffff8880a3aac240 R09: ffffed1014755849
R10: ffffed1014755848 R11: ffff8880a3aac247 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff888098ab1600 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880ae800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffd51c40664 CR3: 0000000092641000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
  io_sq_thread+0x1c7/0xa20 fs/io_uring.c:3274
  kthread+0x361/0x430 kernel/kthread.c:255
  ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace f2e1a4307fbe2245 ]---
RIP: 0010:creds_are_invalid kernel/cred.c:792 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__validate_creds include/linux/cred.h:187 [inline]
RIP: 0010:override_creds+0x9f/0x170 kernel/cred.c:550
Code: ac 25 00 81 fb 64 65 73 43 0f 85 a3 37 00 00 e8 17 ab 25 00 49 8d 7c
24 10 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 84
c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 96 00 00 00 41 8b 5c 24 10 bf
RSP: 0018:ffff88809c45fda0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000043736564 RCX: ffffffff814f3318
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffff814f3329 RDI: 0000000000000010
RBP: ffff88809c45fdb8 R08: ffff8880a3aac240 R09: ffffed1014755849
R10: ffffed1014755848 R11: ffff8880a3aac247 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff888098ab1600 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880ae800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffd51c40664 CR3: 0000000092641000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

which is caused by slab fault injection triggering a failure in
prepare_creds(). We don't actually need to create a copy of the creds
as we're not modifying it, we just need a reference on the current task
creds. This avoids the failure case as well, and propagates the const
throughout the stack.

Fixes: 181e448d87 ("io_uring: async workers should inherit the user creds")
Reported-by: syzbot+5320383e16029ba057ff@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-12-02 08:50:00 -07:00
Jens Axboe
6206f0e180 io-wq: shrink io_wq_work a bit
Currently we're using 40 bytes for the io_wq_work structure, and 16 of
those is the doubly link list node. We don't need doubly linked lists,
we always add to tail to keep things ordered, and any other use case
is list traversal with deletion. For the deletion case, we can easily
support any node deletion by keeping track of the previous entry.

This shrinks io_wq_work to 32 bytes, and subsequently io_kiock from
io_uring to 216 to 208 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-26 15:02:56 -07:00
Jann Horn
3fc50ab559 io-wq: fix handling of NUMA node IDs
There are several things that can go wrong in the current code on NUMA
systems, especially if not all nodes are online all the time:

 - If the identifiers of the online nodes do not form a single contiguous
   block starting at zero, wq->wqes will be too small, and OOB memory
   accesses will occur e.g. in the loop in io_wq_create().
 - If a node comes online between the call to num_online_nodes() and the
   for_each_node() loop in io_wq_create(), an OOB write will occur.
 - If a node comes online between io_wq_create() and io_wq_enqueue(), a
   lookup is performed for an element that doesn't exist, and an OOB read
   will probably occur.

Fix it by:

 - using nr_node_ids instead of num_online_nodes() for the allocation size;
   nr_node_ids is calculated by setup_nr_node_ids() to be bigger than the
   highest node ID that could possibly come online at some point, even if
   those nodes' identifiers are not a contiguous block
 - creating workers for all possible CPUs, not just all online ones

This is basically what the normal workqueue code also does, as far as I can
tell.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-26 15:02:56 -07:00
Jann Horn
ad6e005ca6 io_uring: use kzalloc instead of kcalloc for single-element allocations
These allocations are single-element allocations, so don't use the array
allocation wrapper for them.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-26 15:02:56 -07:00
Jens Axboe
181e448d87 io_uring: async workers should inherit the user creds
If we don't inherit the original task creds, then we can confuse users
like fuse that pass creds in the request header. See link below on
identical aio issue.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/26f0d78e-99ca-2f1b-78b9-433088053a61@scylladb.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-25 19:56:11 -07:00
Jens Axboe
576a347b7a io-wq: have io_wq_create() take a 'data' argument
We currently pass in 4 arguments outside of the bounded size. In
preparation for adding one more argument, let's bundle them up in
a struct to make it more readable.

No functional changes in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-25 19:56:11 -07:00
Jens Axboe
b76da70fc3 io_uring: close lookup gap for dependent next work
When we find new work to process within the work handler, we queue the
linked timeout before we have issued the new work. This can be
problematic for very short timeouts, as we have a window where the new
work isn't visible.

Allow the work handler to store a callback function for this in the work
item, and flag it with IO_WQ_WORK_CB if the caller has done so. If that
is set, then io-wq will call the callback when it has setup the new work
item.

Reported-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-25 19:56:10 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
b2e9c7d64b io-wq: remove extra space characters
These lines are indented an extra space character.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-25 19:56:05 -07:00
Jens Axboe
b60fda6000 io-wq: wait for io_wq_create() to setup necessary workers
We currently have a race where if setup is really slow, we can be
calling io_wq_destroy() before we're done setting up. This will cause
the caller to get stuck waiting for the manager to set things up, but
the manager already exited.

Fix this by doing a sync setup of the manager. This also fixes the case
where if we failed creating workers, we'd also get stuck.

In practice this race window was really small, as we already wait for
the manager to start. Hence someone would have to call io_wq_destroy()
after the task has started, but before it started the first loop. The
reported test case forked tons of these, which is why it became an
issue.

Reported-by: syzbot+0f1cc17f85154f400465@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 771b53d033 ("io-wq: small threadpool implementation for io_uring")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-25 19:56:05 -07:00
Jens Axboe
021d1cdda3 io-wq: remove now redundant struct io_wq_nulls_list
Since we don't iterate these lists anymore after commit:

e61df66c69 ("io-wq: ensure free/busy list browsing see all items")

we don't need to retain the nulls value we use for them. That means it's
pretty pointless to wrap the hlist_nulls_head in a structure, so get rid
of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-14 08:02:19 -07:00
Jens Axboe
e61df66c69 io-wq: ensure free/busy list browsing see all items
We have two lists for workers in io-wq, a busy and a free list. For
certain operations we want to browse all workers, and we currently do
that by browsing the two separate lists. But since these lists are RCU
protected, we can potentially miss workers if they move between the two
lists while we're browsing them.

Add a third list, all_list, that simply holds all workers. A worker is
added to that list when it starts, and removed when it exits. This makes
the worker iteration cleaner, too.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-13 19:40:57 -07:00
Jens Axboe
36c2f9223e io-wq: ensure we have a stable view of ->cur_work for cancellations
worker->cur_work is currently protected by the lock of the wqe that the
worker belongs to. When we send a signal to a worker, we need a stable
view of ->cur_work, so we need to hold that lock. But this doesn't work
so well, since we have the opposite order potentially on queueing work.
If POLL_ADD is used with a signalfd, then io_poll_wake() is called with
the signal lock, and that sometimes needs to insert work items.

Add a specific worker lock that protects the current work item. Then we
can guarantee that the task we're sending a signal is currently
processing the exact work we think it is.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-13 13:51:54 -07:00
Jens Axboe
7d7230652e io_wq: add get/put_work handlers to io_wq_create()
For cancellation, we need to ensure that the work item stays valid for
as long as ->cur_work is valid. Right now we can't safely dereference
the work item even under the wqe->lock, because while the ->cur_work
pointer will remain valid, the work could be completing and be freed
in parallel.

Only invoke ->get/put_work() on items we know that the caller queued
themselves. Add IO_WQ_WORK_INTERNAL for io-wq to use, which is needed
when we're queueing a flush item, for instance.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-13 11:37:54 -07:00
Jens Axboe
c5def4ab84 io-wq: add support for bounded vs unbunded work
io_uring supports request types that basically have two different
lifetimes:

1) Bounded completion time. These are requests like disk reads or writes,
   which we know will finish in a finite amount of time.
2) Unbounded completion time. These are generally networked IO, where we
   have no idea how long they will take to complete. Another example is
   POLL commands.

This patch provides support for io-wq to handle these differently, so we
don't starve bounded requests by tying up workers for too long. By default
all work is bounded, unless otherwise specified in the work item.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-07 11:41:35 -07:00
Jens Axboe
91d666ea43 io-wq: io_wqe_run_queue() doesn't need to use list_empty_careful()
We hold the wqe lock at this point (which is also annotated), so there's
no need to use the careful variant of list_empty().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-09 11:45:32 -07:00
Jens Axboe
6f72653e76 io-wq: use proper nesting IRQ disabling spinlocks for cancel
We don't know what context we'll be called in for cancel, it could very
well be with IRQs disabled already. Use the IRQ saving variants of the
locking primitives.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-05 13:53:53 -07:00
YueHaibing
364b05fd06 io-wq: use kfree_rcu() to simplify the code
The callback function of call_rcu() just calls kfree(), so we can use
kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() + callback function.

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-02 07:59:46 -06:00
Jens Axboe
62755e35df io_uring: support for generic async request cancel
This adds support for IORING_OP_ASYNC_CANCEL, which will attempt to
cancel requests that have been punted to async context and are now
in-flight. This works for regular read/write requests to files, as
long as they haven't been started yet. For socket based IO (or things
like accept4(2)), we can cancel work that is already running as well.

To cancel a request, the sqe must have ->addr set to the user_data of
the request it wishes to cancel. If the request is cancelled
successfully, the original request is completed with -ECANCELED
and the cancel request is completed with a result of 0. If the
request was already running, the original may or may not complete
in error. The cancel request will complete with -EALREADY for that
case. And finally, if the request to cancel wasn't found, the cancel
request is completed with -ENOENT.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-01 08:35:31 -06:00
Jens Axboe
fcb323cc53 io_uring: io_uring: add support for async work inheriting files
This is in preparation for adding opcodes that need to add new files
in a process file table, system calls like open(2) or accept4(2).

If an opcode needs this, it must set IO_WQ_WORK_NEEDS_FILES in the work
item. If work that needs to get punted to async context have this
set, the async worker will assume the original task file table before
executing the work.

Note that opcodes that need access to the current files of an
application cannot be done through IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-10-29 12:43:06 -06:00
Jens Axboe
771b53d033 io-wq: small threadpool implementation for io_uring
This adds support for io-wq, a smaller and specialized thread pool
implementation. This is meant to replace workqueues for io_uring. Among
the reasons for this addition are:

- We can assign memory context smarter and more persistently if we
  manage the life time of threads.

- We can drop various work-arounds we have in io_uring, like the
  async_list.

- We can implement hashed work insertion, to manage concurrency of
  buffered writes without needing a) an extra workqueue, or b)
  needlessly making the concurrency of said workqueue very low
  which hurts performance of multiple buffered file writers.

- We can implement cancel through signals, for cancelling
  interruptible work like read/write (or send/recv) to/from sockets.

- We need the above cancel for being able to assign and use file tables
  from a process.

- We can implement a more thorough cancel operation in general.

- We need it to move towards a syslet/threadlet model for even faster
  async execution. For that we need to take ownership of the used
  threads.

This list is just off the top of my head. Performance should be the
same, or better, at least that's what I've seen in my testing. io-wq
supports basic NUMA functionality, setting up a pool per node.

io-wq hooks up to the scheduler schedule in/out just like workqueue
and uses that to drive the need for more/less workers.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-10-29 12:43:00 -06:00