This patch triggers non-blocking busy poll when busy_poll is enabled and epoll is called with a timeout of 0 and is associated with a napi_id. This enables an app thread to go through napi poll routine once by calling epoll with a 0 timeout. poll/select with a 0 timeout behave in a similar manner. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/eventpoll.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c index 12eebcdea9c8..5f55078d6381 100644 --- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -1847,6 +1847,19 @@ static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events, eavail = ep_events_available(ep); write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock); + /* + * Trigger non-blocking busy poll if timeout is 0 and there are + * no events available. Passing timed_out(1) to ep_busy_loop + * will make sure that busy polling is triggered only once and + * only if sysctl.net.core.busy_poll is set to non-zero value. + */ + if (!eavail) { + ep_busy_loop(ep, timed_out); + write_lock_irq(&ep->lock); + eavail = ep_events_available(ep); + write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock); + } + goto send_events; } -- 2.25.4