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From: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: hev <r@hev.cc>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
	Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>, Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] fs/epoll: Remove unnecessary wakeups of nested epoll that in ET mode
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 21:07:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ddd241902bef0062ed648f4eb2e5ec0e@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190927192915.6ec24ad706258de99470a96e@linux-foundation.org>

On 2019-09-28 04:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:56:03 +0800 hev <r@hev.cc> wrote:
> 
>> From: Heiher <r@hev.cc>
>> 
>> Take the case where we have:
>> 
>>         t0
>>          | (ew)
>>         e0
>>          | (et)
>>         e1
>>          | (lt)
>>         s0
>> 
>> t0: thread 0
>> e0: epoll fd 0
>> e1: epoll fd 1
>> s0: socket fd 0
>> ew: epoll_wait
>> et: edge-trigger
>> lt: level-trigger
>> 
>> We only need to wakeup nested epoll fds if something has been queued 
>> to the
>> overflow list, since the ep_poll() traverses the rdllist during 
>> recursive poll
>> and thus events on the overflow list may not be visible yet.
>> 
>> Test code:
> 
> Look sane to me.  Do you have any performance testing results which
> show a benefit?
> 
> epoll maintainership isn't exactly a hive of activity nowadays :(
> Roman, would you please have time to review this?

Yes, I can revisit this once more next week.

Heiher, mind to prepare a patchset with your test suit and make it a 
part
of kselftest?  I hope nobody has any objections.

--
Roman


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-28 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-25  1:56 [PATCH RESEND v4] fs/epoll: Remove unnecessary wakeups of nested epoll that in ET mode hev
2019-09-28  2:29 ` Andrew Morton
2019-09-28 19:07   ` Roman Penyaev [this message]
2019-09-30 11:55   ` Roman Penyaev
2019-10-03 16:13     ` Jason Baron
2019-10-07 10:54       ` Roman Penyaev
2019-10-07 16:42         ` Jason Baron
2019-10-07 18:30           ` Roman Penyaev
2019-10-07 18:43             ` Jason Baron
2019-10-07 19:10               ` Roman Penyaev
2019-10-09  6:03                 ` Heiher
2019-10-08  9:55               ` Roman Penyaev

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