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Sridhar Samudrala bf3b9f6372 epoll: Add busy poll support to epoll with socket fds.
This patch adds busy poll support to epoll. The implementation is meant to
be opportunistic in that it will take the NAPI ID from the last socket
that is added to the ready list that contains a valid NAPI ID and it will
use that for busy polling until the ready list goes empty.  Once the ready
list goes empty the NAPI ID is reset and busy polling is disabled until a
new socket is added to the ready list.

In addition when we insert a new socket into the epoll we record the NAPI
ID and assume we are going to receive events on it.  If that doesn't occur
it will be evicted as the active NAPI ID and we will resume normal
behavior.

An application can use SO_INCOMING_CPU or SO_REUSEPORT_ATTACH_C/EBPF socket
options to spread the incoming connections to specific worker threads
based on the incoming queue. This enables epoll for each worker thread
to have only sockets that receive packets from a single queue. So when an
application calls epoll_wait() and there are no events available to report,
busy polling is done on the associated queue to pull the packets.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-03-24 20:49:31 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch '40GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue 2017-03-24 13:45:07 -07:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-23 16:41:27 -07:00
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certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets 2017-03-09 18:23:27 -08:00
drivers net/mlx5e: Different SQ types 2017-03-24 19:11:46 -07:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs epoll: Add busy poll support to epoll with socket fds. 2017-03-24 20:49:31 -07:00
include net: Commonize busy polling code to focus on napi_id instead of socket 2017-03-24 20:49:31 -07:00
init Change get_random_{int,log} to use the CRNG used by /dev/urandom and 2017-03-11 09:08:47 -08:00
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mm mm, swap: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in free_swap_slot() 2017-03-21 14:13:19 -07:00
net net: Commonize busy polling code to focus on napi_id instead of socket 2017-03-24 20:49:31 -07:00
samples A Sample of using socket cookie and uid for traffic monitoring 2017-03-23 17:01:57 -07:00
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sound ALSA: hda - Adding a group of pin definition to fix headset problem 2017-03-23 09:39:55 +01:00
tools Add a eBPF helper function to retrieve socket uid 2017-03-23 17:01:02 -07:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC: Fix command handling while ITS being disabled 2017-03-07 15:44:08 +00:00
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Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-23 16:41:27 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.11-rc3 2017-03-19 19:09:39 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.