fs/eventpoll.c: loosen irq safety in ep_poll()
Similar to other calls, ep_poll() is not called with interrupts disabled,
and we can therefore avoid the irq save/restore dance and just disable
local irqs. In fact, the call should never be called in irq context at
all, considering that the only path is
epoll_wait(2) -> do_epoll_wait() -> ep_poll().
When running on a 2 socket 40-core (ht) IvyBridge a common pipe based
epoll_wait(2) microbenchmark, the following performance improvements are
seen:
# threads vanilla dirty
1 1805587 2106412
2 1854064 2090762
4 1805484 2017436
8 1751222 1974475
16 1725299 1962104
32 1378463 1571233
64 787368 900784
Which is a pretty constantly near 15%.
Also add a lockdep check such that we detect any mischief before
deadlocking.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Baron <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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