From: "D. Wythe" <alibuda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Following is part of Off-CPU graph during frequent SMC-R short-lived processing: process_one_work (51.19%) smc_close_passive_work (28.36%) smcr_buf_unuse (28.34%) rwsem_down_write_slowpath (28.22%) smc_listen_work (22.83%) smc_clc_wait_msg (1.84%) smc_buf_create (20.45%) smcr_buf_map_usable_links rwsem_down_write_slowpath (20.43%) smcr_lgr_reg_rmbs (0.53%) rwsem_down_write_slowpath (0.43%) smc_llc_do_confirm_rkey (0.08%) We can clearly see that during the connection establishment time, waiting time of connections is not on IO, but on llc_conf_mutex. What is more important, the core critical area (smcr_buf_unuse() & smc_buf_create()) only perfroms read semantics on links, we can easily replace it with read semaphore. Signed-off-by: D. Wythe <alibuda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/smc/smc_core.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/smc/smc_core.c b/net/smc/smc_core.c index 10a90bf..217d83d2 100644 --- a/net/smc/smc_core.c +++ b/net/smc/smc_core.c @@ -1388,10 +1388,10 @@ static void smcr_buf_unuse(struct smc_buf_desc *buf_desc, bool is_rmb, rc = smc_llc_flow_initiate(lgr, SMC_LLC_FLOW_RKEY); if (!rc) { /* protect against smc_llc_cli_rkey_exchange() */ - down_write(&lgr->llc_conf_mutex); + down_read(&lgr->llc_conf_mutex); smc_llc_do_delete_rkey(lgr, buf_desc); buf_desc->is_conf_rkey = false; - up_write(&lgr->llc_conf_mutex); + up_read(&lgr->llc_conf_mutex); smc_llc_flow_stop(lgr, &lgr->llc_flow_lcl); } } @@ -2645,7 +2645,7 @@ static int smcr_buf_map_usable_links(struct smc_link_group *lgr, int i, rc = 0, cnt = 0; /* protect against parallel link reconfiguration */ - down_write(&lgr->llc_conf_mutex); + down_read(&lgr->llc_conf_mutex); for (i = 0; i < SMC_LINKS_PER_LGR_MAX; i++) { struct smc_link *lnk = &lgr->lnk[i]; @@ -2658,7 +2658,7 @@ static int smcr_buf_map_usable_links(struct smc_link_group *lgr, cnt++; } out: - up_write(&lgr->llc_conf_mutex); + up_read(&lgr->llc_conf_mutex); if (!rc && !cnt) rc = -EINVAL; return rc; -- 1.8.3.1