Re: [PATCH v1] fs/epoll: use a per-cpu counter for user's watches count

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 8/4/21 8:22 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 01:20:13PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> This counter tracks the number of watches a user has, to compare against
>> the 'max_user_watches' limit. This causes a scalability bottleneck on
>> SPECjbb2015 on large systems as there is only one user. Changing to a
>> per-cpu counter increases throughput of the benchmark by about 30% on a
>> 16-socket, > 1000 thread system.
>>
>> Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> 
> With all tinyconfig builds (and all other builds with CONFIG_EPOLL=n),
> this patch results in:
> 
> kernel/user.c: In function 'free_user':
> kernel/user.c:141:35: error: 'struct user_struct' has no member named 'epoll_watches'
>    141 |         percpu_counter_destroy(&up->epoll_watches);
>        |                                   ^~
> kernel/user.c: In function 'alloc_uid':
> kernel/user.c:189:45: error: 'struct user_struct' has no member named 'epoll_watches'
>    189 |                 if (percpu_counter_init(&new->epoll_watches, 0, GFP_KERNEL)) {
>        |                                             ^~
> kernel/user.c:203:52: error: 'struct user_struct' has no member named 'epoll_watches'
>    203 |                         percpu_counter_destroy(&new->epoll_watches);
>        |                                                    ^~
> kernel/user.c: In function 'uid_cache_init':
> kernel/user.c:225:43: error: 'struct user_struct' has no member named 'epoll_watches'
>    225 |         if (percpu_counter_init(&root_user.epoll_watches, 0, GFP_KERNEL))
>        |                                           ^
> 
> Guenter
> 

Hi,
Nick and I have also posted patches for this.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1628051945.fens3r99ox.astroid@bobo.none/

thanks.--
~Randy