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authorXuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com>2026-07-31 15:01:02 +0800
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2026-08-18 11:52:56 +0200
commit4332cf75e4dafbe0981356d1b898d23104acd5db (patch)
tree3e7750c0a59c5f361d3356f79eb2775c2060008f /include/linux/string.h
parent928f659a3e3650978a5b4829cc982324f72b474b (diff)
fuse: give wakeup hints to the scheduler for synchronous requests
When a synchronous FUSE request is sent, the in-kernel client queues it on fiq->pending and wakes the userspace daemon sleeping in fuse_dev_do_read()->wait_event_interruptible_exclusive(fiq->waitq, ...). The client then blocks in request_wait_answer() waiting for the reply, so the waker is about to go to sleep: this is exactly the pattern that WF_SYNC is meant to optimise. As Peter Zijlstra explained in the earlier discussion [1], WF_SYNC is a hint that the waker is about to sleep and the waker and wakee share data, so stacking the woken thread on the current CPU is beneficial for cache locality instead of searching for an idle one. Add a wake_up_sync() wrapper for task on the synchronous request path. Performance: On an Android big.LITTLE device where the FUSE daemon (MediaProvider) runs as a background service on the little cores while foreground applications run on the big cores, the synchronous wakeup hint lets the scheduler pull the daemon thread onto the big core that is issuing the request, where the request data is cache-hot. Measured by qixiaoyu [2] on a 2000-picture zip decompression to /sdcard: ------------------------------------------ | Default | patched | Improvement | ------------------------------------------ | 13.0 s | 7.0 s | 46% | ------------------------------------------ Server thread wall duration: 3583 ms -> 1276 ms Server runs on big core: 5% -> 79% The original 4K-file copy/compress/decompress workload [1] on the same kind of device showed a ~28% improvement (13.8s -> 9.9s). Note: Miklos reported [2] that on his test box he could not observe an actual migration from wake_up_interruptible_sync(); the benefit appears to be most visible on asymmetric topologies (big.LITTLE, where the daemon normally lives on a little core) and on workloads dominated by small synchronous requests. No regression was reported on the symmetric- SMP test setups tried. The earlier version of this change [1] added a `bool sync` argument to all three hooks of `struct fuse_iqueue_ops` and threaded it through virtio_fs as well. Miklos questioned the interface churn, and the patch has been stalled since. Re-work it so the exported interface is left alone. The hint is carried in a new FR_SYNC_WAKEUP bit of the existing `fuse_req->flags` bitfield (an `unsigned long`, so no layout change): - __fuse_request_send() sets the flag before fuse_send_one(). - fuse_dev_queue_req() consumes it with test_and_clear_bit() and forwards the result to fuse_dev_wake_and_unlock(), which then picks wake_up_sync() or wake_up(). - The forget, interrupt and resend paths pass `false` explicitly, preserving their original wake_up() behaviour. Only /dev/fuse ever wakes fiq->waitq; virtio_fs and fuse_uring dispatch through their own transport and never call wake_up(), so threading `sync` through their ops would just add an unused argument. test_and_clear_bit() makes the flag a one-shot hint that cannot leak into a future requeue, and no extra cleanup is needed in fuse_request_end()/fuse_put_request(). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1638780405-38026-1-git-send-email-quic_pragalla@quicinc.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221222093407.GA1141@mi-HP-ProDesk-680-G4-MT/ This work is based on "Pradeep P V K <quic_pragalla@quicinc.com>" and "Pavankumar Kondeti <quic_pkondeti@quicinc.com>" Assisted-by: TRAE:GLM-5.2 Signed-off-by: Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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