This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp: return EPOLLOUT from tcp_poll only when notsent_bytes is half the limit
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tcp-return-epollout-from-tcp_poll-only-when-notsent_.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit d144016c436e114ea27bb2ec6d899243a3e8e5f7
Author: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Sep 14 17:52:09 2020 -0400
tcp: return EPOLLOUT from tcp_poll only when notsent_bytes is half the limit
[ Upstream commit 8ba3c9d1c6d75d1e6af2087278b30e17f68e1fff ]
If there was any event available on the TCP socket, tcp_poll()
will be called to retrieve all the events. In tcp_poll(), we call
sk_stream_is_writeable() which returns true as long as we are at least
one byte below notsent_lowat. This will result in quite a few
spurious EPLLOUT and frequent tiny sendmsg() calls as a result.
Similar to sk_stream_write_space(), use __sk_stream_is_writeable
with a wake value of 1, so that we set EPOLLOUT only if half the
space is available for write.
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 6a52fdcf9e4ef..e45c09977c600 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ __poll_t tcp_poll(struct file *file, struct socket *sock, poll_table *wait)
mask |= EPOLLIN | EPOLLRDNORM;
if (!(sk->sk_shutdown & SEND_SHUTDOWN)) {
- if (sk_stream_is_writeable(sk)) {
+ if (__sk_stream_is_writeable(sk, 1)) {
mask |= EPOLLOUT | EPOLLWRNORM;
} else { /* send SIGIO later */
sk_set_bit(SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE, sk);
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ __poll_t tcp_poll(struct file *file, struct socket *sock, poll_table *wait)
* pairs with the input side.
*/
smp_mb__after_atomic();
- if (sk_stream_is_writeable(sk))
+ if (__sk_stream_is_writeable(sk, 1))
mask |= EPOLLOUT | EPOLLWRNORM;
}
} else
