netty5/transport-native-epoll/src/test/java/io/netty/channel/epoll/EpollETSocketStringEchoBusyWaitTest.java
Matteo Merli 3a96e7373b Added option to do busy-wait on epoll (#8267)
Motivation:

Add an option (through a SelectStrategy return code) to have the Netty event loop thread to do busy-wait on the epoll.

The reason for this change is to avoid the context switch cost that comes when the event loop thread is blocked on the epoll_wait() call.

On average, the context switch has a penalty of ~13usec.

This benefits both:

The latency when reading from a socket
Scheduling tasks to be executed on the event loop thread.
The tradeoff, when enabling this feature, is that the event loop thread will be using 100% cpu, even when inactive.

Modification:

Added SelectStrategy option to return BUSY_WAIT
Epoll loop will do a epoll_wait() with no timeout
Use pause instruction to hint to processor that we're in a busy loop
Result:

When enabled, minimizes impact of context switch in the critical path
2018-09-28 22:52:00 +02:00

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package io.netty.channel.epoll;
import io.netty.bootstrap.Bootstrap;
import io.netty.bootstrap.ServerBootstrap;
import io.netty.buffer.ByteBufAllocator;
public class EpollETSocketStringEchoBusyWaitTest extends EpollSocketStringEchoBusyWaitTest {
@Override
protected void configure(ServerBootstrap bootstrap, Bootstrap bootstrap2, ByteBufAllocator allocator) {
super.configure(bootstrap, bootstrap2, allocator);
bootstrap.option(EpollChannelOption.EPOLL_MODE, EpollMode.EDGE_TRIGGERED)
.childOption(EpollChannelOption.EPOLL_MODE, EpollMode.EDGE_TRIGGERED);
bootstrap2.option(EpollChannelOption.EPOLL_MODE, EpollMode.EDGE_TRIGGERED);
}
}