The patch titled pipe: use event aware wakeups has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is pipe-use-event-aware-wakeups.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: pipe: use event aware wakeups From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Send the events the wakeup refers to, so that epoll, and even the new poll code in fs/select.c can avoid wakeups if the events do not match the requested set. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/pipe.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/pipe.c~pipe-use-event-aware-wakeups fs/pipe.c --- a/fs/pipe.c~pipe-use-event-aware-wakeups +++ a/fs/pipe.c @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ redo: break; } if (do_wakeup) { - wake_up_interruptible_sync(&pipe->wait); + wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&pipe->wait, POLLOUT); kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_writers, SIGIO, POLL_OUT); } pipe_wait(pipe); @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ redo: /* Signal writers asynchronously that there is more room. */ if (do_wakeup) { - wake_up_interruptible_sync(&pipe->wait); + wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&pipe->wait, POLLOUT); kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_writers, SIGIO, POLL_OUT); } if (ret > 0) @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ redo2: break; } if (do_wakeup) { - wake_up_interruptible_sync(&pipe->wait); + wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&pipe->wait, POLLIN); kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_readers, SIGIO, POLL_IN); do_wakeup = 0; } @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ redo2: out: mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); if (do_wakeup) { - wake_up_interruptible_sync(&pipe->wait); + wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&pipe->wait, POLLIN); kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_readers, SIGIO, POLL_IN); } if (ret > 0) @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ pipe_release(struct inode *inode, int de if (!pipe->readers && !pipe->writers) { free_pipe_info(inode); } else { - wake_up_interruptible_sync(&pipe->wait); + wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&pipe->wait, POLLIN | POLLOUT); kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_readers, SIGIO, POLL_IN); kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_writers, SIGIO, POLL_OUT); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch epoll-convert-max_user_watches-to-long.patch pipe-use-event-aware-wakeups.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html