From c141175d011f18252abb9aa8b018c4e93c71d64b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roman Penyaev Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 16:28:46 -0800 Subject: epoll: make sure all elements in ready list are in FIFO order Patch series "use rwlock in order to reduce ep_poll_callback() contention", v3. The last patch targets the contention problem in ep_poll_callback(), which can be very well reproduced by generating events (write to pipe or eventfd) from many threads, while consumer thread does polling. The following are some microbenchmark results based on the test [1] which starts threads which generate N events each. The test ends when all events are successfully fetched by the poller thread: spinlock ======== threads events/ms run-time ms 8 6402 12495 16 7045 22709 32 7395 43268 rwlock + xchg ============= threads events/ms run-time ms 8 10038 7969 16 12178 13138 32 13223 24199 According to the results bandwidth of delivered events is significantly increased, thus execution time is reduced. This patch (of 4): All coming events are stored in FIFO order and this is also should be applicable to ->ovflist, which originally is stack, i.e. LIFO. Thus to keep correct FIFO order ->ovflist should reversed by adding elements to the head of the read list but not to the tail. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190103150104.17128-2-rpenyaev@suse.de Signed-off-by: Roman Penyaev Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Al Viro Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/eventpoll.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c index a5d219d920e7..60f6b2712f5e 100644 --- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -722,7 +722,11 @@ static __poll_t ep_scan_ready_list(struct eventpoll *ep, * contain them, and the list_splice() below takes care of them. */ if (!ep_is_linked(epi)) { - list_add_tail(&epi->rdllink, &ep->rdllist); + /* + * ->ovflist is LIFO, so we have to reverse it in order + * to keep in FIFO. + */ + list_add(&epi->rdllink, &ep->rdllist); ep_pm_stay_awake(epi); } } -- cgit v1.2.3