Re: [PATCH] eventfd: support delayed wakeup for non-semaphore eventfd to reduce cpu utilization

From: kernel test robot
Date: Mon Apr 17 2023 - 08:44:57 EST


Hi,

kernel test robot noticed the following build warnings:

[auto build test WARNING on vfs-idmapping/for-next]
[also build test WARNING on linus/master v6.3-rc7]
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url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/wenyang-linux-foxmail-com/eventfd-support-delayed-wakeup-for-non-semaphore-eventfd-to-reduce-cpu-utilization/20230416-193353
base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping.git for-next
patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_AF886EF226FD9F39D28FE4D9A94A95FA2605%40qq.com
patch subject: [PATCH] eventfd: support delayed wakeup for non-semaphore eventfd to reduce cpu utilization
reproduce:
# https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commit/ea9214e265bae223a795f144d6ddcac65e8e2084
git remote add linux-review https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux
git fetch --no-tags linux-review wenyang-linux-foxmail-com/eventfd-support-delayed-wakeup-for-non-semaphore-eventfd-to-reduce-cpu-utilization/20230416-193353
git checkout ea9214e265bae223a795f144d6ddcac65e8e2084
make menuconfig
# enable CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST, CONFIG_WARN_MISSING_DOCUMENTS, CONFIG_WARN_ABI_ERRORS
make htmldocs

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag where applicable
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202304172058.piI49JCE-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst:74: WARNING: Title underline too short.

vim +74 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst

72
73 eventfd_wakeup_delay_msec
> 74 ------------------
75 Frequent writing of an eventfd can also lead to frequent wakeup of the peer
76 read process, resulting in significant cpu overhead.
77 How ever for the NON SEMAPHORE eventfd, if it's counter has a nonzero value,
78 then a read(2) returns 8 bytes containing that value, and the counter's value
79 is reset to zero.
80 So it coule be optimized as follows: N event_writes vs ONE event_read.
81 By adding a configurable delay after eventfd_write, these unnecessary wakeup
82 operations are avoided.
83 The max value is 100 ms.
84

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