Re: [RFC 1/1] eventpoll: support busy poll per epoll instance
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Date: 2024-01-22 15:25:07
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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Date: 2024-01-22 15:25:07
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On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 12:42:47AM +0000, Joe Damato wrote:
Add F_EPOLL_{S,G}ET_BUSY_POLL_USECS to allow setting a busy poll timeout
per epoll instance so that individual applications can enable (or
disable) epoll based busy poll as needed.
Prior to this change, epoll-based busy poll could only be enabled
system-wide, which limits the usefulness of busy poll.
Signed-off-by: Joe Damato <redacted>
---This should be an ioctl on the epoll fd, not a fcntl(). fcntl()s should aim to be generic which this isn't. We've recently rejected a memfd addition as a fcntl() as well for the same reason.