[PATCH] fuse: wake one waiter per freed slot when raising max_background

Baokun Li <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Aug 2026 16:24:51 +0800
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.fuse-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
fuse_get_req() parks background allocations on fch->blocked_waitq via
wait_event_state_exclusive(), so each wakeup releases exactly one
waiter.  fuse_chan_max_background_set() clears fch->blocked when the
new limit exceeds num_background, but the accompanying wake_up()
releases a single waiter regardless of how many slots just became
available.  Raising max_background from 10 to 100 therefore admits one
request instead of ninety.

The remaining waiters are not permanently stranded — the "else if
(!fch->blocked)" branch in fuse_request_end() wakes one more per
completion — but that only helps while requests keep completing.
Consider a fixed pool of threads doing readahead or async direct I/O
with the quota exhausted: every thread is either in flight or parked,
and each completion wakes one waiter while freeing one slot, a net
change of zero.  num_background oscillates around the old limit and
the added quota is never taken up.

Waking one waiter per freed slot also preserves submission order:
once fch->blocked is clear, new callers of fuse_get_req() skip the
waitqueue entirely, overtaking waiters that parked before the limit
was raised.

Use wake_up_nr() with the number of slots that just became available.
Since the wakeup is guarded by !fch->blocked, num_background is
strictly below max_background, so the count is at least 1 and never
degenerates into wake_up_all().

Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <[email protected]>
---
 fs/fuse/dev.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/fuse/dev.c b/fs/fuse/dev.c
index 5763a7cd3b37..2f1ce77357c5 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dev.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c
@@ -397,7 +397,8 @@ void fuse_chan_max_background_set(struct fuse_chan *fch, unsigned int val)
 	fch->max_background = val;
 	fch->blocked = fch->num_background >= fch->max_background;
 	if (!fch->blocked)
-		wake_up(&fch->blocked_waitq);
+		wake_up_nr(&fch->blocked_waitq,
+			   fch->max_background - fch->num_background);
 	spin_unlock(&fch->bg_lock);
 }
 
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