Hello, Alexander.
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 03:19:28PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> Split interrupt service routine into hardware context handler
> and threaded context handler. That allows to protect ports with
> individual locks rather than with a single host-wide lock and
> move port interrupts handling out of the hardware interrupt
> context.
>
> Testing was done by transferring 8GB on two hard drives in
> parallel using command 'dd if=/dev/sd{a,b} of=/dev/null'. With
> lock_stat statistics I measured access times to ata_host::lock
> spinlock (since interrupt handler code is fully embraced with
> this lock). The average lock's holdtime decreased eight times
> while average waittime decreased two times.
>
> Both before and after the change the transfer time is the same,
> while 'perf record -e cycles:k ...' shows 1%-4% CPU time spent
> in ahci_single_irq_intr() routine before the update and not even
> sampled/shown ahci_single_irq_intr() after the update.
Hmmm... how does it affect single device operation tho? It does make
individual interrupt handling heavier, no?
Thanks.
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tejun
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