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fs/epoll: drop ovflist branch prediction

The ep->ovflist is a secondary ready-list to temporarily store events
that might occur when doing sproc without holding the ep->wq.lock. This
accounts for every time we check for ready events and also send events
back to userspace; both callbacks, particularly the latter because of
copy_to_user, can account for a non-trivial time.

As such, the unlikely() check to see if the pointer is being used, seems
both misleading and sub-optimal. In fact, we go to an awful lot of
trouble to sync both lists, and populating the ovflist is far from an
uncommon scenario.

For example, profiling a concurrent epoll_wait(2) benchmark, with
CONFIG_PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES shows that for a two threads a 33%
incorrect rate was seen; and when incrementally increasing the number of
epoll instances (which is used, for example for multiple queuing load
balancing models), up to a 90% incorrect rate was seen.

Similarly, by deleting the prediction, 3% throughput boost was seen
across incremental threads.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108051006.18751-4-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Davidlohr Bueso and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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fs/eventpoll.c
··· 1153 1153 * semantics). All the events that happen during that period of time are 1154 1154 * chained in ep->ovflist and requeued later on. 1155 1155 */ 1156 - if (unlikely(ep->ovflist != EP_UNACTIVE_PTR)) { 1156 + if (ep->ovflist != EP_UNACTIVE_PTR) { 1157 1157 if (epi->next == EP_UNACTIVE_PTR) { 1158 1158 epi->next = ep->ovflist; 1159 1159 ep->ovflist = epi;