Re: [RFC] io_uring: avoid ring quiesce while registering/unregistering eventfd

[Jens Axboe]

On 2/2/22 9:57 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2/2/22 8:59 AM, Usama Arif wrote:
>> Acquire completion_lock at the start of __io_uring_register before
>> registering/unregistering eventfd and release it at the end. Hence
>> all calls to io_cqring_ev_posted which adds to the eventfd counter
>> will finish before acquiring the spin_lock in io_uring_register, and
>> all new calls will wait till the eventfd is registered. This avoids
>> ring quiesce which is much more expensive than acquiring the
>> spin_lock.
>>
>> On the system tested with this patch, io_uring_reigster with
>> IORING_REGISTER_EVENTFD takes less than 1ms, compared to 15ms before.
> 
> This seems like optimizing for the wrong thing, so I've got a few
> questions. Are you doing a lot of eventfd registrations (and
> unregister) in your workload? Or is it just the initial pain of
> registering one? In talking to Pavel, he suggested that RCU might be a
> good use case here, and I think so too. That would still remove the
> need to quiesce, and the posted side just needs a fairly cheap rcu
> read lock/unlock around it.

Totally untested, but perhaps can serve as a starting point or
inspiration.


diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
index 64c055421809..195752f4823f 100644
--- a/fs/io_uring.c
+++ b/fs/io_uring.c
@@ -329,6 +329,12 @@ struct io_submit_state {
 	struct blk_plug		plug;
 };
 
+struct io_ev_fd {
+	struct eventfd_ctx	*cq_ev_fd;
+	struct io_ring_ctx	*ctx;
+	struct rcu_head		rcu;
+};
+
 struct io_ring_ctx {
 	/* const or read-mostly hot data */
 	struct {
@@ -412,7 +418,7 @@ struct io_ring_ctx {
 	struct {
 		unsigned		cached_cq_tail;
 		unsigned		cq_entries;
-		struct eventfd_ctx	*cq_ev_fd;
+		struct io_ev_fd		*io_ev_fd;
 		struct wait_queue_head	cq_wait;
 		unsigned		cq_extra;
 		atomic_t		cq_timeouts;
@@ -1741,13 +1747,27 @@ static inline struct io_uring_cqe *io_get_cqe(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
 
 static inline bool io_should_trigger_evfd(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
 {
-	if (likely(!ctx->cq_ev_fd))
+	if (likely(!ctx->io_ev_fd))
 		return false;
 	if (READ_ONCE(ctx->rings->cq_flags) & IORING_CQ_EVENTFD_DISABLED)
 		return false;
 	return !ctx->eventfd_async || io_wq_current_is_worker();
 }
 
+static void io_eventfd_signal(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
+{
+	struct io_ev_fd *ev_fd;
+
+	if (!io_should_trigger_evfd(ctx))
+		return;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	ev_fd = READ_ONCE(ctx->io_ev_fd);
+	if (ev_fd)
+		eventfd_signal(ev_fd->cq_ev_fd, 1);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
 /*
  * This should only get called when at least one event has been posted.
  * Some applications rely on the eventfd notification count only changing
@@ -1764,8 +1784,7 @@ static void io_cqring_ev_posted(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
 	 */
 	if (wq_has_sleeper(&ctx->cq_wait))
 		wake_up_all(&ctx->cq_wait);
-	if (io_should_trigger_evfd(ctx))
-		eventfd_signal(ctx->cq_ev_fd, 1);
+	io_eventfd_signal(ctx);
 }
 
 static void io_cqring_ev_posted_iopoll(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
@@ -1777,8 +1796,7 @@ static void io_cqring_ev_posted_iopoll(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
 		if (waitqueue_active(&ctx->cq_wait))
 			wake_up_all(&ctx->cq_wait);
 	}
-	if (io_should_trigger_evfd(ctx))
-		eventfd_signal(ctx->cq_ev_fd, 1);
+	io_eventfd_signal(ctx);
 }
 
 /* Returns true if there are no backlogged entries after the flush */
@@ -9569,31 +9587,49 @@ static int __io_sqe_buffers_update(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
 
 static int io_eventfd_register(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, void __user *arg)
 {
+	struct io_ev_fd *ev_fd;
 	__s32 __user *fds = arg;
 	int fd;
 
-	if (ctx->cq_ev_fd)
+	if (ctx->io_ev_fd)
 		return -EBUSY;
 
 	if (copy_from_user(&fd, fds, sizeof(*fds)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
-	ctx->cq_ev_fd = eventfd_ctx_fdget(fd);
-	if (IS_ERR(ctx->cq_ev_fd)) {
-		int ret = PTR_ERR(ctx->cq_ev_fd);
+	ev_fd = kmalloc(sizeof(*ev_fd), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ev_fd)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	ev_fd->cq_ev_fd = eventfd_ctx_fdget(fd);
+	if (IS_ERR(ev_fd->cq_ev_fd)) {
+		int ret = PTR_ERR(ev_fd->cq_ev_fd);
 
-		ctx->cq_ev_fd = NULL;
+		kfree(ev_fd);
 		return ret;
 	}
 
+	ev_fd->ctx = ctx;
+	WRITE_ONCE(ctx->io_ev_fd, ev_fd);
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void io_eventfd_put(struct rcu_head *rcu)
+{
+	struct io_ev_fd *ev_fd = container_of(rcu, struct io_ev_fd, rcu);
+	struct io_ring_ctx *ctx = ev_fd->ctx;
+
+	eventfd_ctx_put(ev_fd->cq_ev_fd);
+	kfree(ev_fd);
+	WRITE_ONCE(ctx->io_ev_fd, NULL);
+}
+
 static int io_eventfd_unregister(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
 {
-	if (ctx->cq_ev_fd) {
-		eventfd_ctx_put(ctx->cq_ev_fd);
-		ctx->cq_ev_fd = NULL;
+	struct io_ev_fd *ev_fd = ctx->io_ev_fd;
+
+	if (ev_fd) {
+		call_rcu(&ev_fd->rcu, io_eventfd_put);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -9659,7 +9695,10 @@ static __cold void io_ring_ctx_free(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
 	if (ctx->rings)
 		__io_cqring_overflow_flush(ctx, true);
 	mutex_unlock(&ctx->uring_lock);
-	io_eventfd_unregister(ctx);
+	if (ctx->io_ev_fd) {
+		eventfd_ctx_put(ctx->io_ev_fd->cq_ev_fd);
+		kfree(ctx->io_ev_fd);
+	}
 	io_destroy_buffers(ctx);
 	if (ctx->sq_creds)
 		put_cred(ctx->sq_creds);
@@ -11209,6 +11248,8 @@ static bool io_register_op_must_quiesce(int op)
 	case IORING_UNREGISTER_IOWQ_AFF:
 	case IORING_REGISTER_IOWQ_MAX_WORKERS:
 	case IORING_REGISTER_MAP_BUFFERS:
+	case IORING_REGISTER_EVENTFD:
+	case IORING_UNREGISTER_EVENTFD:
 		return false;
 	default:
 		return true;
@@ -11423,7 +11464,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(io_uring_register, unsigned int, fd, unsigned int, opcode,
 	ret = __io_uring_register(ctx, opcode, arg, nr_args);
 	mutex_unlock(&ctx->uring_lock);
 	trace_io_uring_register(ctx, opcode, ctx->nr_user_files, ctx->nr_user_bufs,
-							ctx->cq_ev_fd != NULL, ret);
+							ctx->io_ev_fd != NULL, ret);
 out_fput:
 	fdput(f);
 	return ret;

-- 
Jens Axboe