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fs/epoll: Enable non-blocking busypoll with epoll timeout of 0

Message ID 1592590409-35439-1-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com
State Not Applicable
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series fs/epoll: Enable non-blocking busypoll with epoll timeout of 0 | expand

Commit Message

Samudrala, Sridhar June 19, 2020, 6:13 p.m. UTC
This patch triggers non-blocking busy poll when busy_poll is enabled and
epoll is called with a timeout of 0 and is associated with a napi_id.
This enables an app thread to go through napi poll routine once by calling
epoll with a 0 timeout.

poll/select with a 0 timeout behave in a similar manner.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
---
 fs/eventpoll.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

Comments

Samudrala, Sridhar June 24, 2020, 4:32 p.m. UTC | #1
Adding Dave, Eric for review and see if we can get this in via net-next
as this is mainly useful for networking workloads doing busypoll.

Thanks
Sridhar

On 6/19/2020 11:13 AM, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> This patch triggers non-blocking busy poll when busy_poll is enabled and
> epoll is called with a timeout of 0 and is associated with a napi_id.
> This enables an app thread to go through napi poll routine once by calling
> epoll with a 0 timeout.
> 
> poll/select with a 0 timeout behave in a similar manner.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
> ---
>   fs/eventpoll.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
> index 12eebcdea9c8..5f55078d6381 100644
> --- a/fs/eventpoll.c
> +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
> @@ -1847,6 +1847,19 @@ static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events,
>   		eavail = ep_events_available(ep);
>   		write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock);
>   
> +		/*
> +		 * Trigger non-blocking busy poll if timeout is 0 and there are
> +		 * no events available. Passing timed_out(1) to ep_busy_loop
> +		 * will make sure that busy polling is triggered only once and
> +		 * only if sysctl.net.core.busy_poll is set to non-zero value.
> +		 */
> +		if (!eavail) {
> +			ep_busy_loop(ep, timed_out);
> +			write_lock_irq(&ep->lock);
> +			eavail = ep_events_available(ep);
> +			write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock);
> +		}
> +
>   		goto send_events;
>   	}
>   
>
Eric Dumazet June 24, 2020, 4:49 p.m. UTC | #2
On 6/24/20 9:32 AM, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote:
> Adding Dave, Eric for review and see if we can get this in via net-next
> as this is mainly useful for networking workloads doing busypoll.
> 
> Thanks
> Sridhar
> 
> On 6/19/2020 11:13 AM, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
>> This patch triggers non-blocking busy poll when busy_poll is enabled and
>> epoll is called with a timeout of 0 and is associated with a napi_id.
>> This enables an app thread to go through napi poll routine once by calling
>> epoll with a 0 timeout.
>>
>> poll/select with a 0 timeout behave in a similar manner.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
>> ---
>>   fs/eventpoll.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
>> index 12eebcdea9c8..5f55078d6381 100644
>> --- a/fs/eventpoll.c
>> +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
>> @@ -1847,6 +1847,19 @@ static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events,
>>           eavail = ep_events_available(ep);
>>           write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock);
>>   +        /*
>> +         * Trigger non-blocking busy poll if timeout is 0 and there are
>> +         * no events available. Passing timed_out(1) to ep_busy_loop
>> +         * will make sure that busy polling is triggered only once and
>> +         * only if sysctl.net.core.busy_poll is set to non-zero value.
>> +         */
>> +        if (!eavail) {

Maybe avoid all this stuff for the typical case of busy poll being not used ?

            if (!evail && net_busy_loop_on)) {

>> +            ep_busy_loop(ep, timed_out);


>> +            write_lock_irq(&ep->lock);
>> +            eavail = ep_events_available(ep);
>> +            write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock);
>> +        }
>> +
>>           goto send_events;
>>       }
>>
Samudrala, Sridhar June 24, 2020, 6:25 p.m. UTC | #3
On 6/24/2020 9:49 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/24/20 9:32 AM, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote:
>> Adding Dave, Eric for review and see if we can get this in via net-next
>> as this is mainly useful for networking workloads doing busypoll.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sridhar
>>
>> On 6/19/2020 11:13 AM, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
>>> This patch triggers non-blocking busy poll when busy_poll is enabled and
>>> epoll is called with a timeout of 0 and is associated with a napi_id.
>>> This enables an app thread to go through napi poll routine once by calling
>>> epoll with a 0 timeout.
>>>
>>> poll/select with a 0 timeout behave in a similar manner.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>    fs/eventpoll.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>>>    1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
>>> index 12eebcdea9c8..5f55078d6381 100644
>>> --- a/fs/eventpoll.c
>>> +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
>>> @@ -1847,6 +1847,19 @@ static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events,
>>>            eavail = ep_events_available(ep);
>>>            write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock);
>>>    +        /*
>>> +         * Trigger non-blocking busy poll if timeout is 0 and there are
>>> +         * no events available. Passing timed_out(1) to ep_busy_loop
>>> +         * will make sure that busy polling is triggered only once and
>>> +         * only if sysctl.net.core.busy_poll is set to non-zero value.
>>> +         */
>>> +        if (!eavail) {
> 
> Maybe avoid all this stuff for the typical case of busy poll being not used ?
> 
>              if (!evail && net_busy_loop_on)) {

Sure. will submit a v2 with this change.


> 
>>> +            ep_busy_loop(ep, timed_out);
> 
> 
>>> +            write_lock_irq(&ep->lock);
>>> +            eavail = ep_events_available(ep);
>>> +            write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock);
>>> +        }
>>> +
>>>            goto send_events;
>>>        }
>>>
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 12eebcdea9c8..5f55078d6381 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1847,6 +1847,19 @@  static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events,
 		eavail = ep_events_available(ep);
 		write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock);
 
+		/*
+		 * Trigger non-blocking busy poll if timeout is 0 and there are
+		 * no events available. Passing timed_out(1) to ep_busy_loop
+		 * will make sure that busy polling is triggered only once and
+		 * only if sysctl.net.core.busy_poll is set to non-zero value.
+		 */
+		if (!eavail) {
+			ep_busy_loop(ep, timed_out);
+			write_lock_irq(&ep->lock);
+			eavail = ep_events_available(ep);
+			write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock);
+		}
+
 		goto send_events;
 	}