Re: [RFC] Introduce to batch variants of accept() and epoll_ctl() syscall

On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 13:37 +0800, Li Yu wrote:

Of course, I think that implementing them should not be a hard work :)

Em. I really do not know whether it is necessary to introduce to a new 
syscall here. An alternative solution to add new socket option to handle 
such batch requirement, so applications also can detect if kernel has 
this extended ability with a easy getsockopt() call.

Any way, I am going to try to write a prototype first.

Before that, could you post the result of "perf top", or "perf
record ...;perf report"

 The top shows the kernel is most cpu hog, the testing is simple,
just a accept() -> epoll_ctl(ADD) loop, the ratio of cpu util sys% to
si% is about 2:5.

This ratio is not meaningful, if we dont know where time is spent.


I doubt epoll_ctl(ADD) is a problem here...

If it is, batching the fds wont speed the thing anyway...

I believe accept() is the problem here, because it contends with the
softirq processing the tcp session handshake.