From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soh...@google.com> 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 <soh...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> --- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index d3781b6087cb..48c351804efc 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ __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); @@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ __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 -- 2.28.0.618.gf4bc123cb7-goog