From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Dmitry Banschikov <me@ubique.spb.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: epoll_wait inaccurate timeout
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:34:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161212113401.GA25817@starla> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABuNDZTctuL_m31bYTK5XjrEO-CtYM07xOBoZWBcgcTgM5qE_Q@mail.gmail.com>
+Cc folks who may know about timer stuff on epoll.
Dmitry Banschikov <me@ubique.spb.ru> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a problem caused by inaccurate timeouts in epoll_wait(2).
> Here are some parts of strace -tt output:
Which kernel version are you using?
> 22578 09:33:46.959791 epoll_wait(5, <unfinished ...>
> 22578 09:33:50.010794 <... epoll_wait resumed> [], 128, 1498) = 0
> ...
> 22034 09:35:07.686896 epoll_wait(5, <unfinished ...>
> 22034 09:35:09.482526 <... epoll_wait resumed> [{EPOLLIN,
> {u32=151458248, u64=151458248}}], 128, 362) = 1
> ...
> 22036 09:35:41.433241 epoll_wait(5, <unfinished ...>
> 22036 09:35:43.176881 <... epoll_wait resumed> [], 128, 97) = 0
>
> In each example epoll_wait is blocked for too longer then asked in timeout.
>
> Is it normal?
I don't think so, unless you have a huge /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns
set. But I mainly use -1 or 0 as the timeout value.
> Please CC me.
That's standard procedure, here :)
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2016-12-02 12:11 epoll_wait inaccurate timeout Dmitry Banschikov
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2016-12-13 7:47 ` Dmitry Banschikov
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