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io-wq divides work into two categories: 1) Work that completes in a bounded time, like reading from a regular file or a block device. This type of work is limited based on the size of the SQ ring. 2) Work that may never complete, we call this unbounded work. The amount of workers here is just limited by RLIMIT_NPROC. For various uses cases, it's handy to have the kernel limit the maximum amount of pending workers for both categories. Provide a way to do with with a new IORING_REGISTER_IOWQ_MAX_WORKERS operation. IORING_REGISTER_IOWQ_MAX_WORKERS takes an array of two integers and sets the max worker count to what is being passed in for each category. The old values are returned into that same array. If 0 is being passed in for either category, it simply returns the current value. The value is capped at RLIMIT_NPROC. This actually isn't that important as it's more of a hint, if we're exceeding the value then our attempt to fork a new worker will fail. This happens naturally already if more than one node is in the system, as these values are per-node internally for io-wq. Reported-by: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com> Link: https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/420 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.