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authorDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>2009-03-31 15:24:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-01 08:59:20 -0700
commit4ede816ac36e027db5fe0051ad9c73f76db63772 (patch)
tree6c79eae26067c2355a2d4c7e65bca84208a76c40 /kernel
parentbcd0b235bf3808dec5115c381cd55568f63b85f0 (diff)
epoll keyed wakeups: add __wake_up_locked_key() and __wake_up_sync_key()
This patchset introduces wakeup hints for some of the most popular (from epoll POV) devices, so that epoll code can avoid spurious wakeups on its waiters. The problem with epoll is that the callback-based wakeups do not, ATM, carry any information about the events the wakeup is related to. So the only choice epoll has (not being able to call f_op->poll() from inside the callback), is to add the file* to a ready-list and resolve the real events later on, at epoll_wait() (or its own f_op->poll()) time. This can cause spurious wakeups, since the wake_up() itself might be for an event the caller is not interested into. The rate of these spurious wakeup can be pretty high in case of many network sockets being monitored. By allowing devices to report the events the wakeups refer to (at least the two major classes - POLLIN/POLLOUT), we are able to spare useless wakeups by proper handling inside the epoll's poll callback. Epoll will have in any case to call f_op->poll() on the file* later on, since the change to be done in order to have the full event set sent via wakeup, is too invasive for the way our f_op->poll() system works (the full event set is calculated inside the poll function - there are too many of them to even start thinking the change - also poll/select would need change too). Epoll is changed in a way that both devices which send event hints, and the ones that don't, are correctly handled. The former will gain some efficiency though. As a general rule for devices, would be to add an event mask by using key-aware wakeup macros, when making up poll wait queues. I tested it (together with the epoll's poll fix patch Andrew has in -mm) and wakeups for the supported devices are correctly filtered. Test program available here: http://www.xmailserver.org/epoll_test.c This patch: Nothing revolutionary here. Just using the available "key" that our wakeup core already support. The __wake_up_locked_key() was no brainer, since both __wake_up_locked() and __wake_up_locked_key() are thin wrappers around __wake_up_common(). The __wake_up_sync() function had a body, so the choice was between borrowing the body for __wake_up_sync_key() and calling it from __wake_up_sync(), or make an inline and calling it from both. I chose the former since in most archs it all resolves to "mov $0, REG; jmp ADDR". Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c23
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 196d48babbe..73513f4e19d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -5196,11 +5196,17 @@ void __wake_up_locked(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode)
__wake_up_common(q, mode, 1, 0, NULL);
}
+void __wake_up_locked_key(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, void *key)
+{
+ __wake_up_common(q, mode, 1, 0, key);
+}
+
/**
- * __wake_up_sync - wake up threads blocked on a waitqueue.
+ * __wake_up_sync_key - wake up threads blocked on a waitqueue.
* @q: the waitqueue
* @mode: which threads
* @nr_exclusive: how many wake-one or wake-many threads to wake up
+ * @key: opaque value to be passed to wakeup targets
*
* The sync wakeup differs that the waker knows that it will schedule
* away soon, so while the target thread will be woken up, it will not
@@ -5209,8 +5215,8 @@ void __wake_up_locked(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode)
*
* On UP it can prevent extra preemption.
*/
-void
-__wake_up_sync(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, int nr_exclusive)
+void __wake_up_sync_key(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode,
+ int nr_exclusive, void *key)
{
unsigned long flags;
int sync = 1;
@@ -5222,9 +5228,18 @@ __wake_up_sync(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, int nr_exclusive)
sync = 0;
spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
- __wake_up_common(q, mode, nr_exclusive, sync, NULL);
+ __wake_up_common(q, mode, nr_exclusive, sync, key);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__wake_up_sync_key);
+
+/*
+ * __wake_up_sync - see __wake_up_sync_key()
+ */
+void __wake_up_sync(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, int nr_exclusive)
+{
+ __wake_up_sync_key(q, mode, nr_exclusive, NULL);
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__wake_up_sync); /* For internal use only */
/**