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Marco Leogrande 66bf9b3d9e idpf: convert workqueues to unbound 
[ Upstream commit 9a5b021cb8 ]

When a workqueue is created with `WQ_UNBOUND`, its work items are
served by special worker-pools, whose host workers are not bound to
any specific CPU. In the default configuration (i.e. when
`queue_delayed_work` and friends do not specify which CPU to run the
work item on), `WQ_UNBOUND` allows the work item to be executed on any
CPU in the same node of the CPU it was enqueued on. While this
solution potentially sacrifices locality, it avoids contention with
other processes that might dominate the CPU time of the processor the
work item was scheduled on.

This is not just a theoretical problem: in a particular scenario
misconfigured process was hogging most of the time from CPU0, leaving
less than 0.5% of its CPU time to the kworker. The IDPF workqueues
that were using the kworker on CPU0 suffered large completion delays
as a result, causing performance degradation, timeouts and eventual
system crash.

Tested:

* I have also run a manual test to gauge the performance
  improvement. The test consists of an antagonist process
  (`./stress --cpu 2`) consuming as much of CPU 0 as possible. This
  process is run under `taskset 01` to bind it to CPU0, and its
  priority is changed with `chrt -pQ 9900 10000 ${pid}` and
  `renice -n -20 ${pid}` after start.

  Then, the IDPF driver is forced to prefer CPU0 by editing all calls
  to `queue_delayed_work`, `mod_delayed_work`, etc... to use CPU 0.

  Finally, `ktraces` for the workqueue events are collected.

  Without the current patch, the antagonist process can force
  arbitrary delays between `workqueue_queue_work` and
  `workqueue_execute_start`, that in my tests were as high as
  `30ms`. With the current patch applied, the workqueue can be
  migrated to another unloaded CPU in the same node, and, keeping
  everything else equal, the maximum delay I could see was `6us`.

Fixes: 0fe45467a1 ("idpf: add create vport and netdev configuration")
Signed-off-by: Marco Leogrande <leogrande@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj Vishwanathan <manojvishy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Vazquez <brianvv@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavan Kumar Linga <pavan.kumar.linga@intel.com>
Tested-by: Krishneil Singh <krishneil.k.singh@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-02-08 09:58:03 +01:00
arch LoongArch: Fix warnings during S3 suspend 2025-02-08 09:57:59 +01:00
block partitions: ldm: remove the initial kernel-doc notation 2025-02-08 09:56:52 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: api - Fix boot-up self-test race 2025-02-08 09:57:28 +01:00
Documentation crypto: iaa - Fix IAA disabling that occurs when sync_mode is set to 'async' 2025-02-08 09:57:30 +01:00
drivers idpf: convert workqueues to unbound 2025-02-08 09:58:03 +01:00
fs ubifs: skip dumping tnc tree when zroot is null 2025-02-08 09:58:01 +01:00
include xfrm: delete intermediate secpath entry in packet offload mode 2025-02-08 09:58:01 +01:00
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Makefile Linux 6.12.12 2025-02-01 18:39:40 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.