Re: [lkp-robot] [fs] 3deb642f0d: will-it-scale.per_process_ops -8.8% regression

Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-22T11:58:21Z

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 12:56:13PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> So mark that in ->f_mode - I strongly suspect that
> sk_can_busy_loop(sock->sk) can't change while an opened file is there.
> And lift that (conditional on new FMODE_BUSY_LOOP) into do_poll()
> and do_select() - we *already* have bits of pieces of that logics in
> there and that way they'd at least be gathered in one place.

The problem is that call to sk_busy_loop(), which is going to be indirect
no matter what.

>
> Then replace ->get_poll_head() with file->f_poll_head and
> see what it gives.

Working on it right now. Works so far except for the busy loop case.
I'm looking into a separate methods just for that as a first idea.