Re: sys_epoll_wait high CPU load in 2.6.37

[Davide Libenzi]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Le mercredi 26 janvier 2011 Ã 19:18 +0100, Eric Dumazet a Ãcrit :
> > Le mercredi 26 janvier 2011 Ã 10:06 -0800, Davide Libenzi a Ãcrit :
> > 
> > > Eric, if you look at fs/select.c (~line 925), poll does exactly the same 
> > > thing as epoll do.
> > > It too, ignores the eventual return value of poll_select_set_timeout(), so 
> > > maybe a little bit more optimized ktime_get_ts+timespec_add_ms could make 
> > > sense.
> > > 
> > 
> > OK, I'll post a V3 ;)
> 
> Well in the poll() case we handle a zero timeout, not in epoll().
> 
> So the helper function cannot be shared and can be static to epoll.
> 
> 
> [PATCH v3] epoll: epoll_wait() should not use timespec_add_ns()
> 
> commit 95aac7b1cd224f (epoll: make epoll_wait() use the hrtimer range
> feature) added a performance regression because it uses
> timespec_add_ns() with potential very large 'ns' values.
> 
> Reported-by: Simon Kirby <sim@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/eventpoll.c |   16 +++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
> index cc8a9b7..d517aa3 100644
> --- a/fs/eventpoll.c
> +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
> @@ -1114,6 +1114,17 @@ static int ep_send_events(struct eventpoll *ep,
>  	return ep_scan_ready_list(ep, ep_send_events_proc, &esed);
>  }
>  
> +static inline struct timespec epoll_set_mstimeout(long ms)
> +{
> +	struct timespec now, ts = {
> +		.tv_sec = ms / MSEC_PER_SEC,
> +		.tv_nsec = NSEC_PER_MSEC * (ms % MSEC_PER_SEC),
> +	};
> +
> +	ktime_get_ts(&now);
> +	return timespec_add_safe(now, ts);
> +}
> +
>  static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events,
>  		   int maxevents, long timeout)
>  {
> @@ -1121,12 +1132,11 @@ static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events,
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	long slack;
>  	wait_queue_t wait;
> -	struct timespec end_time;
>  	ktime_t expires, *to = NULL;
>  
>  	if (timeout > 0) {
> -		ktime_get_ts(&end_time);
> -		timespec_add_ns(&end_time, (u64)timeout * NSEC_PER_MSEC);
> +		struct timespec end_time = epoll_set_mstimeout(timeout);
> +
>  		slack = select_estimate_accuracy(&end_time);
>  		to = &expires;
>  		*to = timespec_to_ktime(end_time);

Looks OK for me. The epoll_ prefix fights with the ep_ standard on the 
original file, but I will post a one-liner for it, given Andrew already 
got this.


- Davide