Re: [PATCH] unix: use wq_has_sleeper in unix_dgram_recvmsg

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Dec 01 2015 - 14:48:10 EST


From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 19:23:15 +0000

> The current unix_dgram_recvmsg does a wake up for every received
> datagram. This seems wasteful as only SOCK_DGRAM client sockets in an
> n:1 association with a server socket will ever wait because of the
> associated condition. The patch below changes the function such that the
> wake up only happens if wq_has_sleeper indicates that someone actually
> wants to be notified. Testing with SOCK_SEQPACKET and SOCK_DGRAM socket
> seems to confirm that this is an improvment.
>
> Signed-Off-By: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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