Re: [PATCH] io_uring: wakeup threads waiting for EPOLLOUT events

From: Stefano Garzarella
Date: Thu Jan 16 2020 - 10:56:07 EST


On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 08:29:07AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 1/16/20 6:49 AM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > io_uring_poll() sets EPOLLOUT flag if there is space in the
> > SQ ring, then we should wakeup threads waiting for EPOLLOUT
> > events when we expose the new SQ head to the userspace.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Do you think is better to change the name of 'cq_wait' and 'cq_fasync'?
>
> I honestly think it'd be better to have separate waits for in/out poll,
> the below patch will introduce some unfortunate cacheline traffic
> between the submitter and completer side.

Agree, make sense. I'll send a v2 with a new 'sq_wait'.

About fasync, do you think could be useful the POLL_OUT support?
In this case, maybe is not simple to have two separate fasync_struct,
do you have any advice?

Thanks,
Stefano