> Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >From: Anirban Chakraborty [mailto:anirban.chakraborty@xxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:28 AM >To: Styner, Douglas W; andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; >James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-driver@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [PATCH] qla2xxx: Fix a regression due to refactoring in interrupt >handler code > >Remove unnecessary search for a response completion host when driver is >running >in single queue mode. This should fix the increased cycles seen in >qla24xx_intr_handler code. > >Please apply. >Thanks, >Anirban > >Reported-by: Styner, Douglas W <douglas.w.styner@xxxxxxxxx> >Signed-off-by: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@xxxxxxxxxx> There is no significant impact from this patch. The net effect of this patch when using MSI is to replace calls to qla2x00_get_rsp_host(), which calls the in-lined function pci_get_drvdata(), with direct calls to pci_get_drvdata(). qla2x00_get_rsp_host is very inexpensive (~0.0117%), so removing does not have a significant impact. Linux OLTP Performance summary Kernel# Speedup(x) Intr/s CtxSw/s us% sys% idle% iowait% 2.6.30-rc3 1.000 30645 43027 75 25 0 0 2.6.30-rc3_qla2xxx 0.999 30737 43256 75 25 0 0 Server configurations: Intel Xeon Quad-core 2.0GHz 2 cpus/8 cores/8 threads 64GB memory, 3 qle2462 FC HBA, 450 spindles (30 logical units) ======oprofile CPU_CLK_UNHALTED for top 30 functions Cycles% 2.6.30-rc3 Cycles% 2.6.30-rc3_qla2xxx 69.1925 <database> 67.8477 <database> 1.1314 qla24xx_intr_handler 1.2426 qla24xx_start_scsi 1.0031 qla24xx_start_scsi 1.1148 qla24xx_intr_handler 0.8476 __schedule 0.8508 kmem_cache_alloc 0.6532 kmem_cache_alloc 0.8021 __schedule 0.4490 __blockdev_direct_IO 0.5179 __blockdev_direct_IO 0.4199 __sigsetjmp 0.4456 __sigsetjmp 0.3946 __switch_to 0.3952 scsi_request_fn 0.3538 __list_add 0.3817 __switch_to 0.3499 task_rq_lock 0.3716 task_rq_lock 0.3402 scsi_request_fn 0.3481 __list_add 0.3382 rb_get_reader_page 0.3380 rb_get_reader_page 0.3363 copy_user_generic_string 0.3178 ring_buffer_consume 0.3324 aio_complete 0.2993 aio_complete 0.3110 try_to_wake_up 0.2993 copy_user_generic_string 0.2877 ring_buffer_consume 0.2741 try_to_wake_up 0.2683 mod_timer 0.2623 blk_queue_end_tag 0.2605 qla2x00_process_completed_re0.2573 lock_timer_base 0.2566 blk_queue_end_tag 0.2522 memset_c 0.2566 generic_make_request 0.2472 memmove 0.2547 tcp_sendmsg 0.2472 qla2x00_process_completed_re 0.2372 lock_timer_base 0.2270 generic_make_request 0.2333 memmove 0.2253 mod_timer 0.2294 memset_c 0.2186 __make_request 0.2080 mempool_free 0.2136 scsi_device_unbusy 0.2022 generic_file_aio_read 0.2136 kmem_cache_free 0.1963 scsi_device_unbusy 0.2119 mempool_free 0.1963 plist_del 0.2018 kref_get 0.1944 dequeue_rt_stack 0.2018 plist_del 0.1924 e1000_xmit_frame 0.1984 ipc_lock Doug -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
