Jens Axboe ebf0d100df task_work: only grab task signal lock when needed ...

If JOBCTL_TASK_WORK is already set on the targeted task, then we need
not go through {lock,unlock}_task_sighand() to set it again and queue
a signal wakeup. This is safe as we're checking it _after_ adding the
new task_work with cmpxchg().

The ordering is as follows:

task_work_add()				get_signal()
--------------------------------------------------------------
STORE(task->task_works, new_work);	STORE(task->jobctl);
mb();					mb();
LOAD(task->jobctl);			LOAD(task->task_works);

This speeds up TWA_SIGNAL handling quite a bit, which is important now
that io_uring is relying on it for all task_work deliveries.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

2020-08-13 09:01:38 -06:00

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