tree ac4889e6fbe3c93fe68cbee68055eee89fe9b179
parent 2757be22c0f4c06d359f802fa1fc57286fa26975
author Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com> 1643986274 +0000
committer Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 1646919169 -0700

io_uring: avoid ring quiesce while registering/unregistering eventfd

This is done by creating a new RCU data structure (io_ev_fd) as part of
io_ring_ctx that holds the eventfd_ctx.

The function io_eventfd_signal is executed under rcu_read_lock with a
single rcu_dereference to io_ev_fd so that if another thread unregisters
the eventfd while io_eventfd_signal is still being executed, the
eventfd_signal for which io_eventfd_signal was called completes
successfully.

The process of registering/unregistering eventfd is already done under
uring_lock so multiple threads won't enter a race condition while
registering/unregistering eventfd.

With the above approach ring quiesce can be avoided which is much more
expensive then using RCU lock. On the system tested, io_uring_register
with IORING_REGISTER_EVENTFD takes less than 1ms with RCU lock, compared
to 15ms before with ring quiesce.

Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220204145117.1186568-3-usama.arif@bytedance.com
[axboe: long line fixups]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>