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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/1] RFC: poll/select performance on datagram sockets
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 19:18 +0100, Alban Crequy a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > When a process calls the poll or select, the kernel calls (struct
> > file_operations)->poll on every file descriptor and returns a mask of
> > events which are ready. If the process is only interested by POLLIN
> > events, the mask is still computed for POLLOUT and it can be expensive.
> > For example, on Unix datagram sockets, a process running poll() with
> > POLLIN will wakes-up when the remote end call read(). This is a
> > performance regression introduced when fixing another bug by
> > 3c73419c09a5ef73d56472dbfdade9e311496e9b and
> > ec0d215f9420564fc8286dcf93d2d068bb53a07e.
> >
> > The attached program illustrates the problem. It compares the
> > performance of sending/receiving data on an Unix datagram socket and
> > select(). When the datagram sockets are not connected, the performance
> > problem is not triggered, but when they are connected it becomes a lot
> > slower. On my computer, I have the following time:
> >
> > Connected datagram sockets: >4 seconds
> > Non-connected datagram sockets: <1 second
> >
> > The patch attached in the next email fixes the performance problem: it
> > becomes <1 second for both cases. I am not suggesting the patch for
> > inclusion; I would like to change the prototype of (struct
> > file_operations)->poll instead of adding ->poll2. But there is a lot of
> > poll functions to change (grep tells me 337 functions).
> >
> > Any opinions?
>
> My opinion would be to use epoll() for this kind of workload.
>
Sorry to intrude out of the blue without really understanding the kernel
side of most of the code in question, but if there's a performance
regression for applications using poll() shouldn't we address that so we
get back to the prior performance level rather than requireing all
userspace apps to switch to epoll() ??

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