linux-kernel - [PATCH RESEND v2] fs/epoll: Remove unnecessary wakeups of nested epoll that in ET mode

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Date:   Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:24:13 +0800
From:   hev <r@....cc>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Heiher <r@....cc>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        Eric Wong <e@...24.org>, Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@...e.de>,
        Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RESEND v2] fs/epoll: Remove unnecessary wakeups of nested epoll that in ET mode

From: Heiher <r@....cc>

Take the case where we have:

        t0
         | (ew)
        e0
         | (et)
        e1
         | (lt)
        s0

t0: thread 0
e0: epoll fd 0
e1: epoll fd 1
s0: socket fd 0
ew: epoll_wait
et: edge-trigger
lt: level-trigger

When s0 fires an event, e1 catches the event, and then e0 catches an event from
e1. After this, There is a thread t0 do epoll_wait() many times on e0, it should
only get one event in total, because e1 is a dded to e0 in edge-triggered mode.

This patch only allows the wakeup(&ep->poll_wait) in ep_scan_ready_list under
two conditions:

 1. depth == 0.
 2. There have event is added to ep->ovflist during processing.

Test code:
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <sys/epoll.h>
 #include <sys/socket.h>

 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	int sfd[2];
 	int efd[2];
 	struct epoll_event e;

 	if (socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sfd) < 0)
 		goto out;

 	efd[0] = epoll_create(1);
 	if (efd[0] < 0)
 		goto out;

 	efd[1] = epoll_create(1);
 	if (efd[1] < 0)
 		goto out;

 	e.events = EPOLLIN;
 	if (epoll_ctl(efd[1], EPOLL_CTL_ADD, sfd[0], &e) < 0)
 		goto out;

 	e.events = EPOLLIN | EPOLLET;
 	if (epoll_ctl(efd[0], EPOLL_CTL_ADD, efd[1], &e) < 0)
 		goto out;

 	if (write(sfd[1], "w", 1) != 1)
 		goto out;

 	if (epoll_wait(efd[0], &e, 1, 0) != 1)
 		goto out;

 	if (epoll_wait(efd[0], &e, 1, 0) != 0)
 		goto out;

 	close(efd[0]);
 	close(efd[1]);
 	close(sfd[0]);
 	close(sfd[1]);

 	return 0;

 out:
 	return -1;
 }

More tests:
 https://github.com/heiher/epoll-wakeup

Cc: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Eric Wong <e@...24.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@...e.de>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: hev <r@....cc>
---
 fs/eventpoll.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index c4159bcc05d9..fa71468dbd51 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -685,6 +685,9 @@ static __poll_t ep_scan_ready_list(struct eventpoll *ep,
 	if (!ep_locked)
 		mutex_lock_nested(&ep->mtx, depth);
 
+	if (!depth || list_empty_careful(&ep->rdllist))
+		pwake++;
+
 	/*
 	 * Steal the ready list, and re-init the original one to the
 	 * empty list. Also, set ep->ovflist to NULL so that events
@@ -755,7 +758,7 @@ static __poll_t ep_scan_ready_list(struct eventpoll *ep,
 		mutex_unlock(&ep->mtx);
 
 	/* We have to call this outside the lock */
-	if (pwake)
+	if (pwake == 2)
 		ep_poll_safewake(&ep->poll_wait);
 
 	return res;
-- 
2.23.0