偶然看到有人在说 epoll. 而我是第一次听到这个东西. 所以就来看看.

wiki what's epoll

<aside> ❓ epoll is a Linux kernel system call for a scalable I/O event notification mechanism, first introduced in version 2.5.44 of the Linux kernel mainline. Its function is to monitor multiple file descriptors to see whether I/O is possible on any of them.

</aside>

SYSCALL_DEFINE1(epoll_create1, int, flags)
{
	return do_epoll_create(flags);
}

SYSCALL_DEFINE1(epoll_create, int, size)
{
	if (size <= 0)
		return -EINVAL;

	return do_epoll_create(0);
}

/*
 * Open an eventpoll file descriptor.
 */
static int do_epoll_create(int flags)
{
	int error, fd;
	struct eventpoll *ep = NULL;
	struct file *file;

	/* Check the EPOLL_* constant for consistency.  */
	BUILD_BUG_ON(EPOLL_CLOEXEC != O_CLOEXEC);

	if (flags & ~EPOLL_CLOEXEC)
		return -EINVAL;
	/*
	 * Create the internal data structure ("struct eventpoll").
	 */
	error = ep_alloc(&ep);
	if (error < 0)
		return error;
	/*
	 * Creates all the items needed to setup an eventpoll file. That is,
	 * a file structure and a free file descriptor.
	 */
	fd = get_unused_fd_flags(O_RDWR | (flags & O_CLOEXEC));
	if (fd < 0) {
		error = fd;
		goto out_free_ep;
	}
	file = anon_inode_getfile("[eventpoll]", &eventpoll_fops, ep,
				 O_RDWR | (flags & O_CLOEXEC));
	if (IS_ERR(file)) {
		error = PTR_ERR(file);
		goto out_free_fd;
	}
	ep->file = file;
	fd_install(fd, file);
	return fd;

out_free_fd:
	put_unused_fd(fd);
out_free_ep:
	ep_free(ep);
	return error;
}

static int ep_alloc(struct eventpoll **pep)
{
	int error;
	struct user_struct *user;
	struct eventpoll *ep;

	user = get_current_user();
	error = -ENOMEM;
	ep = kzalloc(sizeof(*ep), GFP_KERNEL);
	if (unlikely(!ep))
		goto free_uid;

	mutex_init(&ep->mtx);
	rwlock_init(&ep->lock);
	init_waitqueue_head(&ep->wq);
	init_waitqueue_head(&ep->poll_wait);
	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ep->rdllist);
	ep->rbr = RB_ROOT_CACHED;
	ep->ovflist = EP_UNACTIVE_PTR;
	ep->user = user;

	*pep = ep;

	return 0;

free_uid:
	free_uid(user);
	return error;
}

代码中的中注释已经很简单明了了.