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Message-ID: <20160312184836.GA17707@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 19:48:36 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, "musl@...ts.openwall.com" <musl@...ts.openwall.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> Subject: Re: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/vdso/32: Add AT_SYSINFO cancellation helpers * Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 06:00:40PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > > > > Because if that's the case, I wonder if what you really want is not "sticky > > > signals" as much as "synchronous signals" - ie the ability to say that a signal > > > shouldn't ever interrupt in random places, but only at well-defined points > > > (where a system call would be one such point - are there others?) > > > > Yes, I had similar 'deferred signal delivery' thoughts after having written up the > > sticky signals approach, I just couldn't map all details of the semantics: see the > > 'internal libc functions' problem below. > > > > If we can do this approach then there's another advantage as well: this way the C > > library does not even have to poll for cancellation at syscall boundaries: i.e. > > the regular system call fast path gets faster by 2-3 instructions as well. > > That is not a measurable benefit. You're talking about 2-3 cycles out of 10k or > more cycles (these are heavy blocking syscalls not light things like SYS_time or > SYS_getpid). Huh? The list of 'must be' cancellable system calls includes key system calls like: open() close() read() variants write() variants poll() select() which can be and often are very lightweight. The list of 'may be cancellable' system calls includes even more lightweight system calls. I think you are confusing 'might block' with 'will block'. Most IO operations on a modern kernel with modern hardware will not block! You are scaring me ... :-( Thanks, Ingo
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