netdev - [PATCH v4 net-next 0/1] net: lls select poll support

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Date:	Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:27:51 +0300
From:	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@...il.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@...or.com>,
	Eilon Greenstien <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	Alex Rosenbaum <alexr@...lanox.com>,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@...ir.org.il>
Subject: [PATCH v4 net-next 0/1] net: lls select poll support

David,

Here is a rework of the select/poll patch.

When select or poll are used on a lot of sockets the sysctl value
needs to be set higher than 50. For 300 sockets a setting of 100 works
for me. For 1000 sockets a setting of 200 works well but the gain is
very small, probably not worth it.

I should mention that unlike the version we had in v9, with this version
of the patch, LLS always performs better than no LLS. 

In this version I split the sysctl entries into two.
sysctl.net.core.low_latency_read for blocking socket reads.
sysctl.net.core.low_latency_poll for select/poll.

The main reason we need two sysctl entries is that the values are different.

This also allows poll to busy poll only on some sockets.
You set sysctl.net.core.low_latency_poll, but leave the read value 0.
Then you use the socket option to enable SO_LL only on the sockets
you would like to buys poll on.

Maybe what we really want is a cgroup that would allow settings
per-process group.

-Eliezer

Change log:
v4
- cleaned up formatting

v3
- split sysctl value into two separate ones, one for read and one for poll.
- updated Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
- fixed possible overflow (again) reported by Eric Dumazet.
- poll/select loop optimizations by Eric Dumazet and Willem de Bruijn.

v2
- added POLL_LL flag, used to signal between the syscalls and sock_poll().
- add a separate ll_end_time() function to be used from poll.
- slight reorder of sk_poll_ll so the timing primitives are not used
  when called from sock_poll().
- select/poll stop busy polling as soon as there is something to return
  to the user.

Change log from the original LLS patch series:
v9
- better mask testing in sock_poll(), reported by Eric Dumazet.

v8
- split out udp and select/poll into separate patches.
  what used to be patch 2/5 is now three patches.

v5
- added simple poll/select support

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