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This counter tracks the number of watches a user has, to compare against the 'max_user_watches' limit. This causes a scalability bottleneck on SPECjbb2015 on large systems as there is only one user. Changing to a per-cpu counter increases throughput of the benchmark by about 30% on a 16-socket, > 1000 thread system. [rdunlap@infradead.org: fix build errors in kernel/user.c when CONFIG_EPOLL=n] [npiggin@gmail.com: move ifdefs into wrapper functions, slightly improve panic message] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1628051945.fens3r99ox.astroid@bobo.none [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak user_epoll_alloc(), per Guenter] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210804191421.GA1900577@roeck-us.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210802032013.2751916-1-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.