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Add a special-case when waiting on a pid (via waitpid, waitid, wait4, etc) to avoid doing an O(n) scan of children and tracees, and instead do an O(1) lookup. This improves performance when waiting on a pid from a thread group with many children and/or tracees. Time to fork and then call waitpid on the child, from a task that already has N children [1]: N | Before | After -----|---------|------ 1 | 74 us | 74 us 20 | 72 us | 75 us 100 | 83 us | 77 us 500 | 99 us | 74 us 1000 | 179 us | 75 us 5000 | 804 us | 79 us 8000 | 1268 us | 78 us [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/3/12/1567 This can make a substantial performance improvement for applications with a thread that has many children or tracees and frequently needs to wait on them. Tools that use ptrace to intercept syscalls for a large number of processes are likely to fall into this category. In particular this patch was developed while building a ptrace-based second generation of the Shadow emulator [2], for which it allows us to avoid quadratic scaling (without having to use a workaround that introduces a ~40% performance penalty) [3]. Other examples of tools that fall into this category which this patch may help include User Mode Linux [4] and DetTrace [5]. [2]: https://shadow.github.io/ [3]: https://github.com/shadow/shadow/issues/1134#issuecomment-798992292 [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux [5]: https://github.com/dettrace/dettrace Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210314231544.9379-1-jnewsome@torproject.org Signed-off-by: James Newsome <jnewsome@torproject.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.