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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2019-04-09 14:28:23 +0200
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2019-05-10 10:53:21 +0100
commit993ed89f35bf2b2250727667f2a640b3c232259f (patch)
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parent118f99442d3a8ce47836978cddd9206ac2d2b001 (diff)
aio-posix: ensure poll mode is left when aio_notify is called
With aio=thread, adaptive polling makes latency worse rather than better, because it delays the execution of the ThreadPool's completion bottom half. event_notifier_poll() does run while polling, detecting that a bottom half was scheduled by a worker thread, but because ctx->notifier is explicitly ignored in run_poll_handlers_once(), scheduling the BH does not count as making progress and run_poll_handlers() keeps running. Fix this by recomputing the deadline after *timeout could have changed. With this change, ThreadPool still cannot participate in polling but at least it does not suffer from extra latency. Reported-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-id: 20190409122823.12416-1-pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1553692145-86728-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20190409122823.12416-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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