[PATCH] ksmbd: server: avoid busy polling in accept loop
From: Qingfang Deng
Date: Thu Oct 30 2025 - 02:47:42 EST
The ksmbd listener thread was using busy waiting on a listening socket by
calling kernel_accept() with SOCK_NONBLOCK and retrying every 100ms on
-EAGAIN. Since this thread is dedicated to accepting new connections,
there is no need for non-blocking mode.
Switch to a blocking accept() call instead, allowing the thread to sleep
until a new connection arrives. This avoids unnecessary wakeups and CPU
usage.
Also remove:
- TCP_NODELAY, which has no effect on a listening socket.
- sk_rcvtimeo and sk_sndtimeo assignments, which only caused accept()
to return -EAGAIN prematurely.
Fixes: 0626e6641f6b ("cifsd: add server handler for central processing and tranport layers")
Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng <dqfext@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c | 22 ++--------------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c b/fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c
index 7a1e3dcc2cde..57a6aa98e7de 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c
@@ -46,11 +46,6 @@ static struct interface *alloc_iface(char *ifname);
#define TCP_TRANS(t) ((struct tcp_transport *)container_of(t, \
struct tcp_transport, transport))
-static inline void ksmbd_tcp_nodelay(struct socket *sock)
-{
- tcp_sock_set_nodelay(sock->sk);
-}
-
static inline void ksmbd_tcp_reuseaddr(struct socket *sock)
{
sock_set_reuseaddr(sock->sk);
@@ -241,15 +236,10 @@ static int ksmbd_kthread_fn(void *p)
mutex_unlock(&iface->sock_release_lock);
break;
}
- ret = kernel_accept(iface->ksmbd_socket, &client_sk,
- SOCK_NONBLOCK);
+ ret = kernel_accept(iface->ksmbd_socket, &client_sk, 0);
mutex_unlock(&iface->sock_release_lock);
- if (ret) {
- if (ret == -EAGAIN)
- /* check for new connections every 100 msecs */
- schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ / 10);
+ if (ret)
continue;
- }
if (!server_conf.max_ip_connections)
goto skip_max_ip_conns_limit;
@@ -455,10 +445,6 @@ static void tcp_destroy_socket(struct socket *ksmbd_socket)
if (!ksmbd_socket)
return;
- /* set zero to timeout */
- ksmbd_tcp_rcv_timeout(ksmbd_socket, 0);
- ksmbd_tcp_snd_timeout(ksmbd_socket, 0);
-
ret = kernel_sock_shutdown(ksmbd_socket, SHUT_RDWR);
if (ret)
pr_err("Failed to shutdown socket: %d\n", ret);
@@ -505,7 +491,6 @@ static int create_socket(struct interface *iface)
release_sock(ksmbd_socket->sk);
}
- ksmbd_tcp_nodelay(ksmbd_socket);
ksmbd_tcp_reuseaddr(ksmbd_socket);
ret = sock_setsockopt(ksmbd_socket,
@@ -529,9 +514,6 @@ static int create_socket(struct interface *iface)
goto out_error;
}
- ksmbd_socket->sk->sk_rcvtimeo = KSMBD_TCP_RECV_TIMEOUT;
- ksmbd_socket->sk->sk_sndtimeo = KSMBD_TCP_SEND_TIMEOUT;
-
ret = kernel_listen(ksmbd_socket, KSMBD_SOCKET_BACKLOG);
if (ret) {
pr_err("Port listen() error: %d\n", ret);
--
2.43.0