Patch series "fs/epoll: loosen irq safety when possible".
Both patches replace saving+restoring interrupts when taking the ep->lock
(now the waitqueue lock), with just disabling local irqs. This shows
immediate performance benefits in patch 1 for an epoll workload running on
Xen. The main concern we need to have with this sort of changes in epoll
is the ep_poll_callback() which is passed to the wait queue wakeup and is
done very often under irq context, this patch does not touch this call.
Patches have been tested pretty heavily with the customer workload,
microbenchmarks, ltp testcases and two high level workloads that use epoll
under the hood: nginx and libevent benchmarks.
This patch (of 2):
Saving and restoring interrupts in ep_scan_ready_list() is an
overkill as it is never called with interrupts disabled. Loosen
this to simply disabling local irqs such that archs where managing
irqs is expensive or virtual environments. This patch yields
some throughput improvements on a workload that is epoll intensive
running on a single Xen DomU.
1 Job 7500 --> 8800 enq/s (+17%)
2 Jobs 14000 --> 15200 enq/s (+8%)
3 Jobs 20500 --> 22300 enq/s (+8%)
4 Jobs 25000 --> 28000 enq/s (+8-12)%
On bare metal:
For a 2-socket 40-core (ht) IvyBridge on a few workloads, unfortunately I
don't have a xen environment and the results for Xen I do have (which
numbers are in patch 1) I don't have the actual workload, so cannot
compare them directly.
1) Different configurations were used for a epoll_wait (pipes io)
microbench (http://linux-scalability.org/epoll/epoll-test.c) and shows
around a 7-10% improvement in overall total number of times the
epoll_wait() loops when using both regular and nested epolls, so very
raw numbers, but measurable nonetheless.
# threads vanilla dirty
1 1677717 1805587
2 1660510 1854064
4 1610184 1805484
8 1577696 1751222
16 1568837 1725299
32 1291532 1378463
64 752584 787368
Note that stddev is pretty small.
2) Another pipe test, which shows no real measurable improvement.
(http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/pipetest.c)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180720172956.2883-2-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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