In order to reduce the number of poller updates, we can benefit from
the fact that modern pollers use sampling to report readiness and that
under load they rarely report the same FD multiple times in a row. As
such it's not always necessary to disable such FDs especially when we're
almost certain they'll be re-enabled again and will require another set
of syscalls.
Now instead of creating an update for a (possibly temporary) removal,
we only perform this removal if the FD is reported again as ready while
inactive. In addition this is performed via another update so that
alternating workloads like transfers have a chance to re-enable the
FD without any syscall during the loop (typically after the data that
filled a buffer have been sent). However we only do that for single-
threaded FDs as the other ones require a more complex setup and are not
on the critical path.
This does cause a few spurious wakeups but almost totally eliminates the
calls to epoll_ctl() on connections seeing intermitent traffic like HTTP/1
to a server or client.
A typical example with 100k requests for 4 kB objects over 200 connections
shows that the number of epoll_ctl() calls doesn't depend on the number
of requests anymore but most exclusively on the number of established
connections:
Before:
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
57.09 0.499964 0 654361 321190 recvfrom
38.33 0.335741 0 369097 1 epoll_wait
4.56 0.039898 0 44643 epoll_ctl
0.02 0.000211 1 200 200 connect
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.875814 1068301 321391 total
After:
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
59.25 0.504676 0 657600 323630 recvfrom
40.68 0.346560 0 374289 1 epoll_wait
0.04 0.000370 0 620 epoll_ctl
0.03 0.000228 1 200 200 connect
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.851834 1032709 323831 total
As expected there is also a slight increase of epoll_wait() calls since
delaying de-activation of events can occasionally cause one spurious
wakeup.
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