From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Christoph Hellwig To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: Avi Kivity , linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: aio poll and a new in-kernel poll API V8 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 22:32:58 +0200 Message-Id: <20180329203328.3248-1-hch@lst.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi all, this series adds support for the IOCB_CMD_POLL operation to poll for the readyness of file descriptors using the aio subsystem. The API is based on patches that existed in RHAS2.1 and RHEL3, which means it already is supported by libaio. To implement the poll support efficiently new methods to poll are introduced in struct file_operations: get_poll_head and poll_mask. The first one returns a wait_queue_head to wait on (lifetime is bound by the file), and the second does a non-blocking check for the POLL* events. This allows aio poll to work without any additional context switches, unlike epoll. This series sits on top of the aio-fsync series that also includes support for io_pgetevents. The changes were sponsored by Scylladb, and improve performance of the seastar framework up to 10%, while also removing the need for a privileged SCHED_FIFO epoll listener thread. git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/vfs.git aio-poll.8 Gitweb: http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/vfs.git/shortlog/refs/heads/aio-poll.8 Libaio changes: https://pagure.io/libaio.git io-poll Seastar changes (not updated for the new io_pgetevens ABI yet): https://github.com/avikivity/seastar/commits/aio Changes since V8: - make delayed cancellation safe and unconditional Changes since V7: - reworked cancellation Changes since V6: - small changelog updates - rebased on top of the aio-fsync changes Changes since V4: - rebased ontop of Linux 4.16-rc4 Changes since V3: - remove the pre-sleep ->poll_mask call in vfs_poll, allow ->get_poll_head to return POLL* values. Changes since V2: - removed a double initialization - new vfs_get_poll_head helper - document that ->get_poll_head can return NULL - call ->poll_mask before sleeping - various ACKs - add conversion of random to ->poll_mask - add conversion of af_alg to ->poll_mask - lacking ->poll_mask support now returns -EINVAL for IOCB_CMD_POLL - reshuffled the series so that prep patches and everything not requiring the new in-kernel poll API is in the beginning Changes since V1: - handle the NULL ->poll case in vfs_poll - dropped the file argument to the ->poll_mask socket operation - replace the ->pre_poll socket operation with ->get_poll_head as in the file operations