This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx5: Added cond_resched() to crdump collection
to the 6.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-mlx5-added-cond_resched-to-crdump-collection.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a323691edb4be917b54d5e032d46e58d5b97a016
Author: Mohamed Khalfella <mkhalfella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Sep 4 22:02:48 2024 -0600
net/mlx5: Added cond_resched() to crdump collection
[ Upstream commit ec793155894140df7421d25903de2e6bc12c695b ]
Collecting crdump involves reading vsc registers from pci config space
of mlx device, which can take long time to complete. This might result
in starving other threads waiting to run on the cpu.
Numbers I got from testing ConnectX-5 Ex MCX516A-CDAT in the lab:
- mlx5_vsc_gw_read_block_fast() was called with length = 1310716.
- mlx5_vsc_gw_read_fast() reads 4 bytes at a time. It was not used to
read the entire 1310716 bytes. It was called 53813 times because
there are jumps in read_addr.
- On average mlx5_vsc_gw_read_fast() took 35284.4ns.
- In total mlx5_vsc_wait_on_flag() called vsc_read() 54707 times.
The average time for each call was 17548.3ns. In some instances
vsc_read() was called more than one time when the flag was not set.
As expected the thread released the cpu after 16 iterations in
mlx5_vsc_wait_on_flag().
- Total time to read crdump was 35284.4ns * 53813 ~= 1.898s.
It was seen in the field that crdump can take more than 5 seconds to
complete. During that time mlx5_vsc_wait_on_flag() did not release the
cpu because it did not complete 16 iterations. It is believed that pci
config reads were slow. Adding cond_resched() every 128 register read
improves the situation. In the common case the, crdump takes ~1.8989s,
the thread yields the cpu every ~4.51ms. If crdump takes ~5s, the thread
yields the cpu every ~18.0ms.
Fixes: 8b9d8baae1de ("net/mlx5: Add Crdump support")
Reviewed-by: Yuanyuan Zhong <yzhong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Khalfella <mkhalfella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/pci_vsc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/pci_vsc.c
index d0b595ba61101..432c98f2626db 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/pci_vsc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/pci_vsc.c
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
pci_write_config_dword((dev)->pdev, (dev)->vsc_addr + (offset), (val))
#define VSC_MAX_RETRIES 2048
+/* Reading VSC registers can take relatively long time.
+ * Yield the cpu every 128 registers read.
+ */
+#define VSC_GW_READ_BLOCK_COUNT 128
+
enum {
VSC_CTRL_OFFSET = 0x4,
VSC_COUNTER_OFFSET = 0x8,
@@ -273,6 +278,7 @@ int mlx5_vsc_gw_read_block_fast(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u32 *data,
{
unsigned int next_read_addr = 0;
unsigned int read_addr = 0;
+ unsigned int count = 0;
while (read_addr < length) {
if (mlx5_vsc_gw_read_fast(dev, read_addr, &next_read_addr,
@@ -280,6 +286,10 @@ int mlx5_vsc_gw_read_block_fast(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u32 *data,
return read_addr;
read_addr = next_read_addr;
+ if (++count == VSC_GW_READ_BLOCK_COUNT) {
+ cond_resched();
+ count = 0;
+ }
}
return length;
}
