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SubjectRe: [PATCH v9 net-next 5/7] net: simple poll/select low latency socket poll
On 05/06/2013 18:20, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 16:41 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
>> On 05/06/2013 16:30, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>>> I am a bit uneasy with this one, because an applicatio polling() on one
>>> thousand file descriptors using select()/poll(), will call sk_poll_ll()
>>> one thousand times.
>>
>> But we call sk_poll_ll() with nonblock set, so it will only test once
>> for each socket and not loop.
>>
>> I think this is not as bad as it sounds.
>> We still honor the time limit on how long to poll.
>
> We still call ndo_ll_poll() a thousand times, and probably do a
> spinlock/unlock a thousand times in the driver.
>
> I would definitely be convinced if you give us some performance numbers
> of a poll() on a thousand tcp sockets for example.

So with 1000 sockets this is defiantly not a win
sockperf with 1000 udp sockets

sysctl 50 0
select 178.5 us / 130.0 us
poll 188.6 us / 130.0 us



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