From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
To: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:36:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECC4E1B.9050405@tilera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321960128-15191-1-git-send-email-gilad@benyossef.com>
On 11/22/2011 6:08 AM, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> We have lots of infrastructure in place to partition a multi-core system such that we have a group of CPUs that are dedicated to specific task: cgroups, scheduler and interrupt affinity and cpuisol boot parameter. Still, kernel code will some time interrupt all CPUs in the system via IPIs for various needs. These IPIs are useful and cannot be avoided altogether, but in certain cases it is possible to interrupt only specific CPUs that have useful work to
> do and not the entire system.
>
> This patch set, inspired by discussions with Peter Zijlstra and Frederic Weisbecker when testing the nohz task patch set, is a first stab at trying to explore doing this by locating the places where such global IPI calls are being made and turning a global IPI into an IPI for a specific group of CPUs. The purpose of the patch set is to get feedback if this is the right way to go for dealing with this issue and indeed, if the issue is even worth dealing with at all. Based on the feedback from this patch set I plan to offer further patches that address similar issue in other code paths.
>
> The patch creates an on_each_cpu_mask infrastructure API (derived from existing arch specific versions in Tile and Arm) and uses it to turn two global
> IPI invocation to per CPU group invocations.
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
I think this kind of work is very important as more and more processing
moves to isolated cpus that need protection from miscellaneous kernel
interrupts. Keep at it! :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-23 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 11:08 Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-11-22 11:08 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] smp: Introduce a generic on_each_cpu_mask function Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-11-22 11:08 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] arm: Move arm over to generic on_each_cpu_mask Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-11-22 21:00 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-11-23 6:47 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-11-22 11:08 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] tile: Move tile to use " Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-11-22 11:08 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] slub: Only IPI CPUs that have per cpu obj to flush Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-11-23 6:23 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-23 6:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-23 7:52 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-01-01 12:41 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-01 16:12 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-01-01 16:50 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-02 11:59 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-01-02 13:30 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-08 16:13 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-01-08 16:15 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-22 11:08 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] mm: Only IPI CPUs to drain local pages if they exist Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-11-23 7:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-12-23 10:28 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-25 9:39 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-12-30 15:04 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-30 15:25 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-12-30 16:08 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-30 20:29 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-01-01 8:03 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-12-30 20:16 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-11-23 1:36 ` Chris Metcalf [this message]
2011-11-23 6:52 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference Gilad Ben-Yossef
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