Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] epoll: add nsec timeout support with epoll_pwait2

[Willem de Bruijn]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 9:31 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 09:19:35AM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > But for epoll, this is inefficient: in ep_set_mstimeout it calls
> > ktime_get_ts64 to convert timeout to an offset from current time, only
> > to pass it to select_estimate_accuracy to then perform another
> > ktime_get_ts64 and subtract this to get back to (approx.) the original
> > timeout.
> >
> > How about a separate patch that adds epoll_estimate_accuracy with
> > the same rules (wrt rt_task, current->timer_slack, nice and upper bound)
> > but taking an s64 timeout.
> >
> > One variation, since it is approximate, I suppose we could even replace
> > division by a right shift?
> >
> > After that, using s64 everywhere is indeed much simpler. And with that
> > I will revise the new epoll_pwait2 interface to take a long long
> > instead of struct timespec.
>
> I think the userspace interface should take a struct timespec
> for consistency with ppoll and pselect. And epoll should use
> poll_select_set_timeout() to convert the relative timeout to an absolute
> endtime.  Make epoll more consistent with select/poll, not less ...

Okay. The absolute time is also needed for schedule_hrtimeout_range,
so it could not be entirely avoided, anyway.