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From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: wenyang.linux@foxmail.com,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Dylan Yudaken <dylany@fb.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Fu Wei <wefu@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventfd: support delayed wakeup for non-semaphore eventfd to reduce cpu utilization
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:22:55 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZD0B3wGasaWT0rsr@debian.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tencent_AF886EF226FD9F39D28FE4D9A94A95FA2605@qq.com>

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On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 07:31:55PM +0800, wenyang.linux@foxmail.com wrote:
> +eventfd_wakeup_delay_msec
> +------------------

Please match the section underline length as the section text above.

> +Frequent writing of an eventfd can also lead to frequent wakeup of the peer
> +read process, resulting in significant cpu overhead.
> +How ever for the NON SEMAPHORE eventfd, if it's counter has a nonzero value,
> +then a read(2) returns 8 bytes containing that value, and the counter's value

reading eventfd?

> +is reset to zero.
> +So it coule be optimized as follows: N event_writes vs ONE event_read.
> +By adding a configurable delay after eventfd_write, these unnecessary wakeup
> +operations are avoided.

What is the connection from optimization you described to eventfd_write
delay?

Thanks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-17  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-16 11:31 [PATCH] eventfd: support delayed wakeup for non-semaphore eventfd to reduce cpu utilization wenyang.linux
2023-04-17  8:22 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2023-04-17 12:44 ` kernel test robot
2023-04-17 14:38 ` Jens Axboe
2023-04-17 16:32   ` Wen Yang
2023-04-19  2:15     ` Jens Axboe
2023-04-19  9:12       ` Christian Brauner
2023-04-19 15:23         ` Wen Yang
2023-04-19 16:42         ` Jens Axboe
2023-04-20 17:44           ` Wen Yang
2023-05-04 16:01             ` Wen Yang

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