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Every now and then reports come in that are puzzled on why changing affinity on the io-wq workers fails with EINVAL. This happens because they set PF_NO_SETAFFINITY as part of their creation, as io-wq organizes workers into groups based on what CPU they are running on. However, this is purely an optimization and not a functional requirement. We can allow setting affinity, and just lazily update our worker to wqe mappings. If a given io-wq thread times out, it normally exits if there's no more work to do. The exception is if it's the last worker available. For the timeout case, check the affinity of the worker against group mask and exit even if it's the last worker. New workers should be created with the right mask and in the right location. Reported-by:Daniel Dao <dqminh@cloudflare.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/CA+wXwBQwgxB3_UphSny-yAP5b26meeOu1W4TwYVcD_+5gOhvPw@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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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 Restructured Text 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.