Re: aio poll, io_pgetevents and a new in-kernel poll API

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 09:00:12AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The changes were sponsored by Scylladb, and improve performance
> of the seastar framework up to 10%, while also removing the need
> for a privileged SCHED_FIFO epoll listener thread.

Due to the current events:

With KPTI enabled the aio poll code is almost 16% faster than epoll
with the special SCHED_FIFO listener thread.

The Scylladb https example is still more than 4% faster with KPTI
and aio poll vs non-KPTI with epoll.