netdev - [PATCH] fs/epoll: Enable non-blocking busypoll with epoll timeout of 0

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Date:   Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:13:29 -0700
From:   Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
To:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fs/epoll: Enable non-blocking busypoll with epoll timeout of 0

This patch triggers non-blocking busy poll when busy_poll is enabled and
epoll is called with a timeout of 0 and is associated with a napi_id.
This enables an app thread to go through napi poll routine once by calling
epoll with a 0 timeout.

poll/select with a 0 timeout behave in a similar manner.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
---
 fs/eventpoll.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 12eebcdea9c8..5f55078d6381 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1847,6 +1847,19 @@ static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events,
 		eavail = ep_events_available(ep);
 		write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock);
 
+		/*
+		 * Trigger non-blocking busy poll if timeout is 0 and there are
+		 * no events available. Passing timed_out(1) to ep_busy_loop
+		 * will make sure that busy polling is triggered only once and
+		 * only if sysctl.net.core.busy_poll is set to non-zero value.
+		 */
+		if (!eavail) {
+			ep_busy_loop(ep, timed_out);
+			write_lock_irq(&ep->lock);
+			eavail = ep_events_available(ep);
+			write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock);
+		}
+
 		goto send_events;
 	}
 
-- 
2.25.4