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author | Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com> | 2015-01-13 13:16:18 -0800 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-01-14 13:18:58 -0800 |
commit | 28423ad283d5348793b0c45cc9b1af058e776fd6 (patch) | |
tree | 1c519b127740d391c0bb6bafaa1e0086e8b12be1 /drivers/media/common/siano | |
parent | 5a43b88e98eaca88fa12abcacd0000adc879dd2c (diff) | |
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ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond_resched() before poking RCU
While debugging an issue with excessive softirq usage, I encountered the
following note in commit 3e339b5dae24a706 ("softirq: Use hotplug thread
infrastructure"):
[ paulmck: Call rcu_note_context_switch() with interrupts enabled. ]
...but despite this note, the patch still calls RCU with IRQs disabled.
This seemingly innocuous change caused a significant regression in softirq
CPU usage on the sending side of a large TCP transfer (~1 GB/s): when
introducing 0.01% packet loss, the softirq usage would jump to around 25%,
spiking as high as 50%. Before the change, the usage would never exceed 5%.
Moving the call to rcu_note_context_switch() after the cond_sched() call,
as it was originally before the hotplug patch, completely eliminated this
problem.
Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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