Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] io_uring: Add support for napi_busy_poll

From: Hao Xu
Date: Wed Mar 02 2022 - 01:35:42 EST



On 3/2/22 13:12, Olivier Langlois wrote:
On Wed, 2022-03-02 at 02:31 +0800, Hao Xu wrote:
+static void io_blocking_napi_busy_loop(struct list_head
*napi_list,
+                                      struct io_wait_queue *iowq)
+{
+       unsigned long start_time =
+               list_is_singular(napi_list) ? 0 :
+               busy_loop_current_time();
+
+       do {
+               if (list_is_singular(napi_list)) {
+                       struct napi_entry *ne =
+                               list_first_entry(napi_list,
+                                                struct napi_entry,
list);
+
+                       napi_busy_loop(ne->napi_id,
io_busy_loop_end, iowq,
+                                      true, BUSY_POLL_BUDGET);
+                       io_check_napi_entry_timeout(ne);
+                       break;
+               }
+       } while (io_napi_busy_loop(napi_list) &&
+                !io_busy_loop_end(iowq, start_time));
+}
+
How about:

if (list is singular) {

     do something;

     return;

}

while (!io_busy_loop_end() && io_napi_busy_loop())

     ;


Btw, start_time seems not used in singular branch.
Hao,

it takes me few readings before being able to figure out the idea
behind your suggestions. Sorry about that!

So, if I get it correctly, you are proposing extract out the singular
block out of the while loop...

IMHO, this is not a good idea because you could start iterating the
do/while loop with a multiple entries list that ends up becoming a
singular list after one or few iterations.
My bad, I get your point now.

Check what io_napi_busy_loop() is doing...

It does not look like that but a lot thoughts have been put into
writing io_blocking_napi_busy_loop()...
True.