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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKP <lkp@01.org>
Subject: Re: [lkp-robot] [fs] 3deb642f0d: will-it-scale.per_process_ops -8.8% regression
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:56:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180622115613.GV30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180622115300.GA14654@lst.de>

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 01:53:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> > Now, ->sk_wq is modified only in sock_init_data() and sock_graft();
> > the latter, IIRC, is ->accept() helper.  Do we ever call either of
> > those on a sock of already opened file?  IOW, is there any real
> > reason for socket ->get_poll_head() not to be constant, other
> > than wanting to keep POLL_BUSY_LOOP handling out of ->poll_mask()?
> > I agree that POLL_BUSY_LOOP is ugly as hell, but you *still* have
> > sock_poll_mask() not free from it...
> 
> I'd have to defer to networking folks if busy looping after pollwait
> is what they want, but I suspect the answer is no, by the time
> we are already waiting for the queue busy waiting seems pointless.

	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.

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

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-22 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-22  8:27 [lkp-robot] [fs] 3deb642f0d: will-it-scale.per_process_ops -8.8% regression kernel test robot
2018-06-22  9:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-06-22  9:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-22 10:00     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-22 11:01       ` Al Viro
2018-06-22 11:53         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-22 11:56           ` Al Viro [this message]
2018-06-22 12:07             ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-22 12:17               ` Al Viro
2018-06-22 12:33                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-22 12:29                   ` Al Viro
2018-06-22 19:06         ` Sean Paul
2018-06-22 10:02     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-06-22 10:05       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-06-22 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-22 15:14   ` Al Viro
2018-06-22 15:28     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-22 16:18       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-22 20:02         ` Al Viro
2018-06-23  7:15           ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-26  6:03   ` Ye Xiaolong
2018-06-27  7:07     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-28  0:38       ` Ye Xiaolong
2018-06-28 13:38         ` Christoph Hellwig

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