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| author | Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com> | 2015-01-14 00:16:18 +0300 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-01-15 00:18:58 +0300 |
| commit | 28423ad283d5348793b0c45cc9b1af058e776fd6 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c519b127740d391c0bb6bafaa1e0086e8b12be1 /kernel | |
| parent | 5a43b88e98eaca88fa12abcacd0000adc879dd2c (diff) | |
| download | linux-28423ad283d5348793b0c45cc9b1af058e776fd6.tar.xz | |
ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond_resched() before poking RCU
While debugging an issue with excessive softirq usage, I encountered the
following note in commit 3e339b5dae24a706 ("softirq: Use hotplug thread
infrastructure"):
[ paulmck: Call rcu_note_context_switch() with interrupts enabled. ]
...but despite this note, the patch still calls RCU with IRQs disabled.
This seemingly innocuous change caused a significant regression in softirq
CPU usage on the sending side of a large TCP transfer (~1 GB/s): when
introducing 0.01% packet loss, the softirq usage would jump to around 25%,
spiking as high as 50%. Before the change, the usage would never exceed 5%.
Moving the call to rcu_note_context_switch() after the cond_sched() call,
as it was originally before the hotplug patch, completely eliminated this
problem.
Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/softirq.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c index 501baa9ac1be..c497fcdf0d1e 100644 --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -656,9 +656,13 @@ static void run_ksoftirqd(unsigned int cpu) * in the task stack here. */ __do_softirq(); - rcu_note_context_switch(); local_irq_enable(); cond_resched(); + + preempt_disable(); + rcu_note_context_switch(); + preempt_enable(); + return; } local_irq_enable(); |