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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-06-28 09:43:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-06-28 10:40:47 -0700 |
| commit | a11e1d432b51f63ba698d044441284a661f01144 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f3c5a10bf0d7f9a342d5fb39c0c35ea14170124 /Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | |
| parent | f57494321cbf5b1e7769b6135407d2995a369e28 (diff) | |
Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL
The poll() changes were not well thought out, and completely
unexplained. They also caused a huge performance regression, because
"->poll()" was no longer a trivial file operation that just called down
to the underlying file operations, but instead did at least two indirect
calls.
Indirect calls are sadly slow now with the Spectre mitigation, but the
performance problem could at least be largely mitigated by changing the
"->get_poll_head()" operation to just have a per-file-descriptor pointer
to the poll head instead. That gets rid of one of the new indirections.
But that doesn't fix the new complexity that is completely unwarranted
for the regular case. The (undocumented) reason for the poll() changes
was some alleged AIO poll race fixing, but we don't make the common case
slower and more complex for some uncommon special case, so this all
really needs way more explanations and most likely a fundamental
redesign.
[ This revert is a revert of about 30 different commits, not reverted
individually because that would just be unnecessarily messy - Linus ]
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 829a7b7857a4..f608180ad59d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -857,8 +857,6 @@ struct file_operations { ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); __poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); - struct wait_queue_head * (*get_poll_head)(struct file *, __poll_t); - __poll_t (*poll_mask) (struct file *, __poll_t); long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *); @@ -903,17 +901,6 @@ otherwise noted. activity on this file and (optionally) go to sleep until there is activity. Called by the select(2) and poll(2) system calls - get_poll_head: Returns the struct wait_queue_head that callers can - wait on. Callers need to check the returned events using ->poll_mask - once woken. Can return NULL to indicate polling is not supported, - or any error code using the ERR_PTR convention to indicate that a - grave error occured and ->poll_mask shall not be called. - - poll_mask: return the mask of EPOLL* values describing the file descriptor - state. Called either before going to sleep on the waitqueue returned by - get_poll_head, or after it has been woken. If ->get_poll_head and - ->poll_mask are implemented ->poll does not need to be implement. - unlocked_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call. compat_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call when 32 bit system calls |