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    net: poll/select low latency socket support · 2d48d67f
    Eliezer Tamir authored
    
    
    select/poll busy-poll support.
    
    Split sysctl value into two separate ones, one for read and one for poll.
    updated Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
    
    Add a new poll flag POLL_LL. When this flag is set, sock_poll will call
    sk_poll_ll if possible. sock_poll sets this flag in its return value
    to indicate to select/poll when a socket that can busy poll is found.
    
    When poll/select have nothing to report, call the low-level
    sock_poll again until we are out of time or we find something.
    
    Once the system call finds something, it stops setting POLL_LL, so it can
    return the result to the user ASAP.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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