[PATCH] blkcg: Optimize exit to user space

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Aug 13 2025 - 11:05:57 EST


blkcg uses TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME to handle throttling on exit to user
space. TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is a multiplexing TIF bit, which is utilized by
other entities as well.

This results in a unconditional blkcg_maybe_throttle_current() call for
every invocation of resume_user_mode_work(), which is a pointless exercise
as most of the time there is no throttling work to do.

Optimize this by doing a quick check of the throttling condition before
invoking it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
---
block/blk-cgroup.c | 4 ++--
include/linux/blk-cgroup.h | 10 +++++++++-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@ static void blkcg_maybe_throttle_blkg(st
}

/**
- * blkcg_maybe_throttle_current - throttle the current task if it has been marked
+ * __blkcg_maybe_throttle_current - throttle the current task if it has been marked
*
* This is only called if we've been marked with set_notify_resume(). Obviously
* we can be set_notify_resume() for reasons other than blkcg throttling, so we
@@ -2010,7 +2010,7 @@ static void blkcg_maybe_throttle_blkg(st
* to be called by people willy-nilly as it will actually do the work to
* throttle the task if it is setup for throttling.
*/
-void blkcg_maybe_throttle_current(void)
+void __blkcg_maybe_throttle_current(void)
{
struct gendisk *disk = current->throttle_disk;
struct blkcg *blkcg;
--- a/include/linux/blk-cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk-cgroup.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
* Nauman Rafique <nauman@xxxxxxxxxx>
*/

+#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/types.h>

struct bio;
@@ -26,7 +27,14 @@ struct gendisk;
extern struct cgroup_subsys_state * const blkcg_root_css;

void blkcg_schedule_throttle(struct gendisk *disk, bool use_memdelay);
-void blkcg_maybe_throttle_current(void);
+void __blkcg_maybe_throttle_current(void);
+
+static inline void blkcg_maybe_throttle_current(void)
+{
+ if (unlikely(current->throttle_disk))
+ __blkcg_maybe_throttle_current();
+}
+
bool blk_cgroup_congested(void);
void blkcg_pin_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *blkcg_css);
void blkcg_unpin_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *blkcg_css);