epoll: add EPOLLEXCLUSIVE flag

Currently, epoll file descriptors or epfds (the fd returned from epoll_create[1]()) that are added to a shared wakeup source are always added in a non-exclusive manner. This means that when we have multiple epfds attached to a shared fd source they are all woken up. This creates thundering herd type behavior. Introduce a new 'EPOLLEXCLUSIVE' flag that can be passed as part of the 'event' argument during an epoll_ctl() EPOLL_CTL_ADD operation. This new flag allows for exclusive wakeups when there are multiple epfds attached to a shared fd event source. The implementation walks the list of exclusive waiters, and queues an event to each epfd, until it finds the first waiter that has threads blocked on it via epoll_wait(). The idea is to search for threads which are idle and ready to process the wakeup events. Thus, we queue an event to at least 1 epfd, but may still potentially queue an event to all epfds that are attached to the shared fd source. Performance testing was done by Madars Vitolins using a modified version of Enduro/X. The use of the 'EPOLLEXCLUSIVE' flag reduce the length of this particular workload from 860s down to 24s. Sample epoll_clt text: EPOLLEXCLUSIVE Sets an exclusive wakeup mode for the epfd file descriptor that is being attached to the target file descriptor, fd. Thus, when an event occurs and multiple epfd file descriptors are attached to the same target file using EPOLLEXCLUSIVE, one or more epfds will receive an event with epoll_wait(2). The default in this scenario (when EPOLLEXCLUSIVE is not set) is for all epfds to receive an event. EPOLLEXCLUSIVE may only be specified with the op EPOLL_CTL_ADD. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Tested-by: Madars Vitolins <m@silodev.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
torvalds · Jan 21, 2016 · df0108c · df0108c
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diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
  */
 
 /* Epoll private bits inside the event mask */
-#define EP_PRIVATE_BITS (EPOLLWAKEUP | EPOLLONESHOT | EPOLLET)
+#define EP_PRIVATE_BITS (EPOLLWAKEUP | EPOLLONESHOT | EPOLLET | EPOLLEXCLUSIVE)
 
 /* Maximum number of nesting allowed inside epoll sets */
 #define EP_MAX_NESTS 4
@@ -1002,6 +1002,7 @@ static int ep_poll_callback(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *k
 	unsigned long flags;
 	struct epitem *epi = ep_item_from_wait(wait);
 	struct eventpoll *ep = epi->ep;
+	int ewake = 0;
 
 	if ((unsigned long)key & POLLFREE) {
 		ep_pwq_from_wait(wait)->whead = NULL;
@@ -1066,8 +1067,10 @@ static int ep_poll_callback(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *k
 	 * Wake up ( if active ) both the eventpoll wait list and the ->poll()
 	 * wait list.
 	 */
-	if (waitqueue_active(&ep->wq))
+	if (waitqueue_active(&ep->wq)) {
+		ewake = 1;
 		wake_up_locked(&ep->wq);
+	}
 	if (waitqueue_active(&ep->poll_wait))
 		pwake++;
 
@@ -1078,6 +1081,9 @@ static int ep_poll_callback(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *k
 	if (pwake)
 		ep_poll_safewake(&ep->poll_wait);
 
+	if (epi->event.events & EPOLLEXCLUSIVE)
+		return ewake;
+
 	return 1;
 }
 
@@ -1095,7 +1101,10 @@ static void ep_ptable_queue_proc(struct file *file, wait_queue_head_t *whead,
 		init_waitqueue_func_entry(&pwq->wait, ep_poll_callback);
 		pwq->whead = whead;
 		pwq->base = epi;
-		add_wait_queue(whead, &pwq->wait);
+		if (epi->event.events & EPOLLEXCLUSIVE)
+			add_wait_queue_exclusive(whead, &pwq->wait);
+		else
+			add_wait_queue(whead, &pwq->wait);
 		list_add_tail(&pwq->llink, &epi->pwqlist);
 		epi->nwait++;
 	} else {
@@ -1861,6 +1870,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(epoll_ctl, int, epfd, int, op, int, fd,
 	if (f.file == tf.file || !is_file_epoll(f.file))
 		goto error_tgt_fput;
 
+	/*
+	 * epoll adds to the wakeup queue at EPOLL_CTL_ADD time only,
+	 * so EPOLLEXCLUSIVE is not allowed for a EPOLL_CTL_MOD operation.
+	 * Also, we do not currently supported nested exclusive wakeups.
+	 */
+	if ((epds.events & EPOLLEXCLUSIVE) && (op == EPOLL_CTL_MOD ||
+		(op == EPOLL_CTL_ADD && is_file_epoll(tf.file))))
+		goto error_tgt_fput;
+
 	/*
 	 * At this point it is safe to assume that the "private_data" contains
 	 * our own data structure.

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h b/include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
 #define EPOLL_CTL_DEL 2
 #define EPOLL_CTL_MOD 3
 
+/* Set exclusive wakeup mode for the target file descriptor */
+#define EPOLLEXCLUSIVE (1 << 28)
+
 /*
  * Request the handling of system wakeup events so as to prevent system suspends
  * from happening while those events are being processed.