On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> wrote:
> 13.84% opensock [kernel.kallsyms] [k] queued_spin_lock_slowpath
> |
> --- queued_spin_lock_slowpath
> |
> |--99.97%-- _raw_spin_lock
> | |
> | |--53.03%-- __close_fd
> | |
> | |--46.83%-- __alloc_fd
Interesting. "__close_fd" actually looks more expensive than
allocation. They presumably get called equally often, so it's probably
some cache effect.
__close_fd() doesn't do anything even remotely interesting as far as I
can tell, but it strikes me that we probably take a *lot* of cache
misses on the stupid "close-on-exec" flags, which are probably always
zero anyway.
Mind testing something really stupid, and making the __clear_bit() in
__clear_close_on_exec() conditiona, something like this:
static inline void __clear_close_on_exec(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt)
{
- __clear_bit(fd, fdt->close_on_exec);
+ if (test_bit(fd, fdt->close_on_exec)
+ __clear_bit(fd, fdt->close_on_exec);
}
and see if it makes a difference.
This is the kind of thing that a single-threaded (or even
single-socket) test will never actually show, because it caches well
enough. But for two sockets, I could imagine the unnecessary dirtying
of cachelines and ping-pong being noticeable.
The other stuff we probably can't do all that much about. Unless we
decide to go for some complicated lockless optimistic file descriptor
allocation scheme with retry-on-failure instead of locks. Which I'm
sure is possible, but I'm equally sure is painful.
Linus
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