epoll: use rwlock in order to reduce ep_poll_callback() contention
The goal of this patch is to reduce contention of ep_poll_callback() which can be called concurrently from different CPUs in case of high events rates and many fds per epoll. Problem can be very well reproduced by generating events (write to pipe or eventfd) from many threads, while consumer thread does polling. In other words this patch increases the bandwidth of events which can be delivered from sources to the poller by adding poll items in a lockless way to the list. The main change is in replacement of the spinlock with a rwlock, which is taken on read in ep_poll_callback(), and then by adding poll items to the tail of the list using xchg atomic instruction. Write lock is taken everywhere else in order to stop list modifications and guarantee that list updates are fully completed (I assume that write side of a rwlock does not starve, it seems qrwlock implementation has these guarantees). The following are some microbenchmark resu...
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