When we enqueue a remote irq work, we trigger the same IPI as those
raised by smp_call_function_*() family.
So when we receive such IPI, we check both irq_work and smp_call_function
queues. Thus if we trigger a remote irq work, we'll likely find the
smp_call_function queue empty unless we collide with concurrent enqueuers
but the probability is low.
Meanwhile, checking the smp_call_function queue can be costly because
we use llist_del_all() which relies on cmpxchg().
We can reduce this overhead by doing a fast path check with llist_empty().
Given the implicit IPI ordering:
Enqueuer Dequeuer
--------- --------
llist_add(csd, queue) get_IPI() {
send_IPI() if (llist_empty(queue)
...
When the IPI is sent, we are guaranteed that the IPI receiver will
see the new csd.
So lets do the fast path check to optimize non smp_call_function() related
jobs.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
---
kernel/smp.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index 12c5bea..09ddc92 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -184,11 +184,19 @@ static int generic_exec_single(int cpu, struct
call_single_data *csd,
*/
void generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(void)
{
+ struct llist_head *head = &__get_cpu_var(call_single_queue);
struct llist_node *entry;
struct call_single_data *csd, *csd_next;
static bool warned;
- entry = llist_del_all(&__get_cpu_var(call_single_queue));
+ /*
+ * Fast check: in case of irq work remote queue, the IPI list
+ * is likely empty. We can spare the expensive llist_del_all().
+ */
+ if (llist_empty(head))
+ goto irq_work;
+
+ entry = llist_del_all(head);
entry = llist_reverse_order(entry);
/*
@@ -212,6 +220,7 @@ void generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(void)
csd_unlock(csd);
}
+irq_work:
/*
* Handle irq works queued remotely by irq_work_queue_on().
* Smp functions above are typically synchronous so they
--
1.8.3.1
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