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Jens Axboe 7d95de1244 io_uring/sqpoll: be smarter on when to update the stime usage
commit a94e065726 upstream.

The current approach is a bit naive, and hence calls the time querying
way too often. Only start the "doing work" timer when there's actual
work to do, and then use that information to terminate (and account) the
work time once done. This greatly reduces the frequency of these calls,
when they cannot have changed anyway.

Running a basic random reader that is setup to use SQPOLL, a profile
before this change shows these as the top cycle consumers:

+   32.60%  iou-sqp-1074  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] thread_group_cputime_adjusted
+   19.97%  iou-sqp-1074  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] thread_group_cputime
+   12.20%  io_uring      io_uring           [.] submitter_uring_fn
+    4.13%  iou-sqp-1074  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] getrusage
+    2.45%  iou-sqp-1074  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] io_submit_sqes
+    2.18%  iou-sqp-1074  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __pi_memset_generic
+    2.09%  iou-sqp-1074  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] cputime_adjust

and after this change, top of profile looks as follows:

+   36.23%  io_uring     io_uring           [.] submitter_uring_fn
+   23.26%  iou-sqp-819  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] io_sq_thread
+   10.14%  iou-sqp-819  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] io_sq_tw
+    6.52%  iou-sqp-819  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] tctx_task_work_run
+    4.82%  iou-sqp-819  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] nvme_submit_cmds.part.0
+    2.91%  iou-sqp-819  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] io_submit_sqes
[...]
     0.02%  iou-sqp-819  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] cputime_adjust

where it's spending the cycles on things that actually matter.

Reported-by: Fengnan Chang <changfengnan@bytedance.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3fcb9d1720 ("io_uring/sqpoll: statistics of the true utilization of sq threads")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-10-29 14:10:21 +01:00
arch riscv: hwprobe: Fix stale vDSO data for late-initialized keys at boot 2025-10-29 14:10:21 +01:00
block block: Remove elevator_lock usage from blkg_conf frozen operations 2025-10-23 16:24:37 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption 2025-10-19 16:37:14 +02:00
Documentation arm64: errata: Apply workarounds for Neoverse-V3AE 2025-10-23 16:24:38 +02:00
drivers arch_topology: Fix incorrect error check in topology_parse_cpu_capacity() 2025-10-29 14:10:21 +01:00
fs fs/notify: call exportfs_encode_fid with s_umount 2025-10-29 14:10:20 +01:00
include virtio-net: zero unused hash fields 2025-10-29 14:10:21 +01:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:37:27 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/sqpoll: be smarter on when to update the stime usage 2025-10-29 14:10:21 +01:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel dma-debug: don't report false positives with DMA_BOUNCE_UNALIGNED_KMALLOC 2025-10-29 14:10:21 +01:00
lib lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get() 2025-10-19 16:37:28 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm mm: don't spin in add_stack_record when gfp flags don't allow 2025-10-29 14:10:21 +01:00
net net: datagram: introduce datagram_poll_queue for custom receive queues 2025-10-29 14:10:20 +01:00
rust rust: cpufreq: fix formatting 2025-10-23 16:24:38 +02:00
samples 15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-17 21:34:26 -07:00
scripts kbuild: Add '.rel.*' strip pattern for vmlinux 2025-10-19 16:37:15 +02:00
security KEYS: trusted_tpm1: Compare HMAC values in constant time 2025-10-19 16:37:28 +02:00
sound ASoC: amd/sdw_utils: avoid NULL deref when devm_kasprintf() fails 2025-10-23 16:24:37 +02:00
tools selftests: net: fix server bind failure in sctp_vrf.sh 2025-10-29 14:10:19 +01:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap 7 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or 2025-09-28 09:32:00 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS i2c-for-6.17-rc8 2025-09-28 13:19:23 -07:00
Makefile Unbreak 'make tools/*' for user-space targets 2025-10-29 14:10:18 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.