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authorJason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>2013-11-12 15:10:16 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-13 12:09:25 +0900
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epoll: optimize EPOLL_CTL_DEL using rcu
Nathan Zimmer found that once we get over 10+ cpus, the scalability of SPECjbb falls over due to the contention on the global 'epmutex', which is taken in on EPOLL_CTL_ADD and EPOLL_CTL_DEL operations. Patch #1 removes the 'epmutex' lock completely from the EPOLL_CTL_DEL path by using rcu to guard against any concurrent traversals. Patch #2 remove the 'epmutex' lock from EPOLL_CTL_ADD operations for simple topologies. IE when adding a link from an epoll file descriptor to a wakeup source, where the epoll file descriptor is not nested. This patch (of 2): Optimize EPOLL_CTL_DEL such that it does not require the 'epmutex' by converting the file->f_ep_links list into an rcu one. In this way, we can traverse the epoll network on the add path in parallel with deletes. Since deletes can't create loops or worse wakeup paths, this is safe. This patch in combination with the patch "epoll: Do not take global 'epmutex' for simple topologies", shows a dramatic performance improvement in scalability for SPECjbb. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Tested-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Cc: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> CC: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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