linux-kernel - Re: [patch] make pipes use event aware wakeups

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Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:45:01 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] make pipes use event aware wakeups

Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 12:32 -0800, Davide Libenzi a écrit :
> I thought this was alreay merged, but this thread brought to my attention 
> it wasn't:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/15/234
> 
> This patch sends the events the wakeup refers to, so that epoll, and even 
> the new poll code in fs/select.c can avoid wakeups in events are not 
> matching the requested set.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
> 
> 
> - Davide
> 
> 
> ---
>  fs/pipe.c |   10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.mod/fs/pipe.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.mod.orig/fs/pipe.c	2010-12-15 20:49:48.000000000 -0800
> +++ linux-2.6.mod/fs/pipe.c	2010-12-15 20:51:42.000000000 -0800
> @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@
>  			break;
>  		}
>  		if (do_wakeup) {
> -			wake_up_interruptible_sync(&pipe->wait);
> +			wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&pipe->wait, POLLOUT);
>   			kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_writers, SIGIO, POLL_OUT);
>  		}
>  		pipe_wait(pipe);
> @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@
>  
>  	/* Signal writers asynchronously that there is more room. */
>  	if (do_wakeup) {
> -		wake_up_interruptible_sync(&pipe->wait);
> +		wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&pipe->wait, POLLOUT);
>  		kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_writers, SIGIO, POLL_OUT);
>  	}
>  	if (ret > 0)
> @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@
>  			break;
>  		}
>  		if (do_wakeup) {
> -			wake_up_interruptible_sync(&pipe->wait);
> +			wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&pipe->wait, POLLIN);
>  			kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_readers, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
>  			do_wakeup = 0;
>  		}
> @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@
>  out:
>  	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
>  	if (do_wakeup) {
> -		wake_up_interruptible_sync(&pipe->wait);
> +		wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&pipe->wait, POLLIN);
>  		kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_readers, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
>  	}
>  	if (ret > 0)
> @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@
>  	if (!pipe->readers && !pipe->writers) {
>  		free_pipe_info(inode);
>  	} else {
> -		wake_up_interruptible_sync(&pipe->wait);
> +		wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&pipe->wait, POLLIN | POLLOUT);
>  		kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_readers, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
>  		kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_writers, SIGIO, POLL_OUT);
>  	}

Indeed ;)

I am not sure the last bit is needed, but it should not matter.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>



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