From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
To: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
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>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.org>,
Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:57:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0B2A9D.5020208@tilera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326040026-7285-1-git-send-email-gilad@benyossef.com>
On 1/8/2012 11:26 AM, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> We have lots of infrastructure in place to partition a multi-core systems
> 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 and on_each_cpu_conf infrastructure
> API (the former derived from existing arch specific versions in Tile and
> Arm) and and uses them to turn several global IPI invocation to per CPU
> group invocations.
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
(To be fair, mostly this acks the proposed infrastructure, and moving the
functions out of the tile architecture and into the generic code; I not
expert enough at slub or the invalidate_bh_lrus path to ack those changes,
other than to say I like how they look.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-09 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-08 16:26 Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-01-08 16:32 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-01-09 9:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-09 17:57 ` Chris Metcalf [this message]
2012-01-11 7:04 ` Milton Miller
2012-01-11 8:28 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
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