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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 chuck.lever@oracle.com, jlayton@kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org,  edumazet@google.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, alexander.duyck@gmail.com,
	 sridhar.samudrala@intel.com, kuba@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] eventpoll: support busy poll per epoll instance
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:25:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240122-erwidern-erleichtern-8a04080a4db3@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240120004247.42036-2-jdamato@fastly.com>

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 12:42:47AM +0000, Joe Damato wrote:
> Add F_EPOLL_{S,G}ET_BUSY_POLL_USECS to allow setting a busy poll timeout
> per epoll instance so that individual applications can enable (or
> disable) epoll based busy poll as needed.
> 
> Prior to this change, epoll-based busy poll could only be enabled
> system-wide, which limits the usefulness of busy poll.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
> ---

This should be an ioctl on the epoll fd, not a fcntl(). fcntl()s
should aim to be generic which this isn't. We've recently rejected a
memfd addition as a fcntl() as well for the same reason.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-22 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-20  0:42 [RFC 0/1] RFC: Allow busy poll to be set per epoll instance Joe Damato
2024-01-20  0:42 ` [RFC 1/1] eventpoll: support busy poll " Joe Damato
2024-01-22 15:25   ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2024-01-22 21:16     ` Joe Damato

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