2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> In various network workloads, __do_softirq() latencies can be up to 20 ms if HZ=1000, and 200 ms if HZ=100. This is because we iterate 10 times in the softirq dispatcher, and some actions can consume a lot of cycles. This patch changes the fallback to ksoftirqd condition to : - A time limit of 2 ms. - need_resched() being set on current task When one of this condition is met, we wakeup ksoftirqd for further softirq processing if we still have pending softirqs. Using need_resched() as the only condition can trigger RCU stalls, as we can keep BH disabled for too long. I ran several benchmarks and got no significant difference in throughput, but a very significant reduction of latencies (one order of magnitude) : In following bench, 200 antagonist "netperf -t TCP_RR" are started in background, using all available cpus. Then we start one "netperf -t TCP_RR", bound to the cpu handling the NIC IRQ (hard+soft) Before patch : RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind RT_LATENCY=550110.424 MIN_LATENCY=146858 MAX_LATENCY=997109 P50_LATENCY=305000 P90_LATENCY=550000 P99_LATENCY=710000 MEAN_LATENCY=376989.12 STDDEV_LATENCY=184046.92 After patch : RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind RT_LATENCY=40545.492 MIN_LATENCY=9834 MAX_LATENCY=78366 P50_LATENCY=33583 P90_LATENCY=59000 P99_LATENCY=69000 MEAN_LATENCY=38364.67 STDDEV_LATENCY=12865.26 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (cherry picked from commit c10d73671ad30f54692f7f69f0e09e75d3a8926a) Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> --- kernel/softirq.c | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c index 04a0252..d75c136 100644 --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -194,21 +194,21 @@ void local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip) EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip); /* - * We restart softirq processing MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART times, - * and we fall back to softirqd after that. + * We restart softirq processing for at most 2 ms, + * and if need_resched() is not set. * - * This number has been established via experimentation. + * These limits have been established via experimentation. * The two things to balance is latency against fairness - * we want to handle softirqs as soon as possible, but they * should not be able to lock up the box. */ -#define MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART 10 +#define MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME msecs_to_jiffies(2) asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void) { struct softirq_action *h; __u32 pending; - int max_restart = MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART; + unsigned long end = jiffies + MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME; int cpu; pending = local_softirq_pending(); @@ -253,11 +253,12 @@ restart: local_irq_disable(); pending = local_softirq_pending(); - if (pending && --max_restart) - goto restart; + if (pending) { + if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched()) + goto restart; - if (pending) wakeup_softirqd(); + } lockdep_softirq_exit(); -- 1.7.12.2.21.g234cd45.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html