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Commit 1e1c1583 authored by Nicholas Piggin's avatar Nicholas Piggin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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fs/epoll: use a per-cpu counter for user's watches count



This counter tracks the number of watches a user has, to compare against
the 'max_user_watches' limit. This causes a scalability bottleneck on
SPECjbb2015 on large systems as there is only one user. Changing to a
per-cpu counter increases throughput of the benchmark by about 30% on a
16-socket, > 1000 thread system.

[rdunlap@infradead.org: fix build errors in kernel/user.c when CONFIG_EPOLL=n]
[npiggin@gmail.com: move ifdefs into wrapper functions, slightly improve panic message]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1628051945.fens3r99ox.astroid@bobo.none
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak user_epoll_alloc(), per Guenter]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210804191421.GA1900577@roeck-us.net

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210802032013.2751916-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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