Re: sys_epoll_wait high CPU load in 2.6.37

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Jan 26 2011 - 13:45:47 EST


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);


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