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Andi Kleen authored
This patch streamlines poll and select by adding fast paths for a small number of descriptors passed. The majority of polls/selects seem to be of this nature. The main saving comes from not allocating two pages for wait queue and table, but from using stack allocation (upto 256bytes) when only a few descriptors are needed. This makes it as fast again as 2.0 and even a bit faster because the wait queue page allocation is avoided too (except when the drivers overflow it) select also skips a lot faster over big holes and avoids the separate pass of determining the max. number of descriptors in the bitmap. A typical linux system saves a considerable amount of unswappable memory with this patch, because it usually has 10+ daemons hanging around in poll or select with each two pages allocated for data and wait queue. Some other cleanups.
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