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SubjectRe: [PATCH] eventfd: support delayed wakeup for non-semaphore eventfd to reduce cpu utilization
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On 4/16/23 5:31?AM, wenyang.linux@foxmail.com wrote:
> From: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@foxmail.com>
>
> For the NON SEMAPHORE eventfd, if it's counter has a nonzero value,
> then a read(2) returns 8 bytes containing that value, and the counter's
> value is reset to zero. Therefore, in the NON SEMAPHORE scenario,
> N event_writes vs ONE event_read is possible.
>
> However, the current implementation wakes up the read thread immediately
> in eventfd_write so that the cpu utilization increases unnecessarily.
>
> By adding a configurable delay after eventfd_write, these unnecessary
> wakeup operations are avoided, thereby reducing cpu utilization.

What's the real world use case of this, and what would the expected
delay be there? With using a delayed work item for this, there's
certainly a pretty wide grey zone in terms of delay where this would
perform considerably worse than not doing any delayed wakeups at all.

--
Jens Axboe

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