This commit will reduce the interval of the AP status check event from 100 milliseconds to 10 milliseconds.
(I searched the history of the 100ms interval, it seems no comment or log message was mentioned for the choice of this value. Looks like the value is selected by experience.) The purpose is to reduce the response time when the BSP calls below EFI_MP_SERVICES_PROTOCOL services in a non-blocking manner: * StartupAllAPs() * StartupThisAP() Reducing the check interval will benefit the performance for the case when the BSP uses WaitForEvent() or uses CheckEvent() in a loop to wait for AP(s) to complete the task, especially when the task can be finished considerably fast on AP(s). An example is within function CpuFeaturesInitialize() under UefiCpuPkg/Library/RegisterCpuFeaturesLib/DxeRegisterCpuFeaturesLib.c, where BSP will perform the same task with APs and requires all the processors to finish the task before BSP proceeds to its next task. Impact: A. The impact is minimal when there is no non-blocking calls of the StartupAllAPs/StartupThisAp MP services, because the check function CheckAndUpdateApsStatus() will return directly when there is no registered wait event (i.e. no non-blocking request). B. There will be a performance tradeoff when BSP continues to proceed other tasks after submitting a non-blocking StartupAllAPs/StartupThisAP request. If the AP status check takes a good portion of the shortened interval, BSP will have less time slice working on its own task before all the APs complete their tasks. My investigation for Impact B is that it is a rare scenario in the edk2 code base. Unitests: A. OS boot successfully. B. System (with 24 threads) boot time reduced. Almost all the saved time comes from the above-mentioned case in CpuFeaturesInitialize(). Cc: Eric Dong <eric.d...@intel.com> Cc: Ray Ni <ray...@intel.com> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kin...@intel.com> Cc: Star Zeng <star.z...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hao A Wu <hao.a...@intel.com> --- UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib/DxeMpLib.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib/DxeMpLib.c b/UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib/DxeMpLib.c index a987c32109..9ba886e8ed 100644 --- a/UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib/DxeMpLib.c +++ b/UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib/DxeMpLib.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ #include <Protocol/Timer.h> -#define AP_CHECK_INTERVAL (EFI_TIMER_PERIOD_MILLISECONDS (100)) +#define AP_CHECK_INTERVAL (EFI_TIMER_PERIOD_MILLISECONDS (10)) #define AP_SAFE_STACK_SIZE 128 CPU_MP_DATA *mCpuMpData = NULL; -- 2.12.0.windows.1 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#55846): https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/55846 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/71925352/21656 Group Owner: devel+ow...@edk2.groups.io Unsubscribe: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
