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Roman Penyaev c141175d01 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 <rpenyaev@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-07 18:32:01 -08:00
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