This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
idpf: convert workqueues to unbound
to the 6.13-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:
idpf-convert-workqueues-to-unbound.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5d3ecd433a87185189d38cb3c2848e8069ffe1f2
Author: Marco Leogrande <leogrande@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Dec 16 16:27:34 2024 +0000
idpf: convert workqueues to unbound
[ Upstream commit 9a5b021cb8186f1854bac2812bd4f396bb1e881c ]
When a workqueue is created with `WQ_UNBOUND`, its work items are
served by special worker-pools, whose host workers are not bound to
any specific CPU. In the default configuration (i.e. when
`queue_delayed_work` and friends do not specify which CPU to run the
work item on), `WQ_UNBOUND` allows the work item to be executed on any
CPU in the same node of the CPU it was enqueued on. While this
solution potentially sacrifices locality, it avoids contention with
other processes that might dominate the CPU time of the processor the
work item was scheduled on.
This is not just a theoretical problem: in a particular scenario
misconfigured process was hogging most of the time from CPU0, leaving
less than 0.5% of its CPU time to the kworker. The IDPF workqueues
that were using the kworker on CPU0 suffered large completion delays
as a result, causing performance degradation, timeouts and eventual
system crash.
Tested:
* I have also run a manual test to gauge the performance
improvement. The test consists of an antagonist process
(`./stress --cpu 2`) consuming as much of CPU 0 as possible. This
process is run under `taskset 01` to bind it to CPU0, and its
priority is changed with `chrt -pQ 9900 10000 ${pid}` and
`renice -n -20 ${pid}` after start.
Then, the IDPF driver is forced to prefer CPU0 by editing all calls
to `queue_delayed_work`, `mod_delayed_work`, etc... to use CPU 0.
Finally, `ktraces` for the workqueue events are collected.
Without the current patch, the antagonist process can force
arbitrary delays between `workqueue_queue_work` and
`workqueue_execute_start`, that in my tests were as high as
`30ms`. With the current patch applied, the workqueue can be
migrated to another unloaded CPU in the same node, and, keeping
everything else equal, the maximum delay I could see was `6us`.
Fixes: 0fe45467a104 ("idpf: add create vport and netdev configuration")
Signed-off-by: Marco Leogrande <leogrande@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Manoj Vishwanathan <manojvishy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brian Vazquez <brianvv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pavan Kumar Linga <pavan.kumar.linga@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Krishneil Singh <krishneil.k.singh@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c
index f71d3182580b6..b6c515d14cbf0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c
@@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ static int idpf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
pci_set_master(pdev);
pci_set_drvdata(pdev, adapter);
- adapter->init_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s-%s-init", 0, 0,
+ adapter->init_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s-%s-init",
+ WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0,
dev_driver_string(dev),
dev_name(dev));
if (!adapter->init_wq) {
@@ -183,7 +184,8 @@ static int idpf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
goto err_free;
}
- adapter->serv_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s-%s-service", 0, 0,
+ adapter->serv_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s-%s-service",
+ WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0,
dev_driver_string(dev),
dev_name(dev));
if (!adapter->serv_wq) {
@@ -192,7 +194,8 @@ static int idpf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
goto err_serv_wq_alloc;
}
- adapter->mbx_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s-%s-mbx", 0, 0,
+ adapter->mbx_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s-%s-mbx",
+ WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0,
dev_driver_string(dev),
dev_name(dev));
if (!adapter->mbx_wq) {
@@ -201,7 +204,8 @@ static int idpf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
goto err_mbx_wq_alloc;
}
- adapter->stats_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s-%s-stats", 0, 0,
+ adapter->stats_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s-%s-stats",
+ WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0,
dev_driver_string(dev),
dev_name(dev));
if (!adapter->stats_wq) {
@@ -210,7 +214,8 @@ static int idpf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
goto err_stats_wq_alloc;
}
- adapter->vc_event_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s-%s-vc_event", 0, 0,
+ adapter->vc_event_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s-%s-vc_event",
+ WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0,
dev_driver_string(dev),
dev_name(dev));
if (!adapter->vc_event_wq) {
