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authorMichal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>2024-09-30 22:13:05 +0200
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2024-10-04 09:25:15 -0700
commit6cd695706f8bb3d06a4dda1f7d673dbfcca45784 (patch)
treebcb5ca2949d493c4541b1368d46487a3fab4f516
parentb8db67d4df0022e3595263b542953c251f4ccf06 (diff)
qed: put cond_resched() in qed_grc_dump_ctx_data()
On a kernel with preemption none or voluntary, 'ethtool -d' on a qede network device can cause a big latency spike. The biggest part of it is the loop in qed_grc_dump_ctx_data. The function is called only from the .get_size and .perform_dump callbacks for the "grc" feature defined in qed_features_lookup[]. As far as I can see, they are used in: - qed's devlink healh reporter .dump op - qede's ethtool get_regs/get_regs_len/get_dump_data ops - qedf's qedf_get_grc_dump, called from: - qedf_sysfs_write_grcdump - "grcdump" sysfs attribute write - qedf_wq_grcdump - a workqueue It is safe to sleep in all of them. Let's insert a cond_resched() in the outer loop to let other tasks run. Measured using this script: #!/bin/bash DEV=ens3f1 echo wakeup_rt > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_on echo "Setting the task CPU affinity" taskset -p 1 $$ > /dev/null echo "Starting the real-time task" chrt -f 50 bash -c 'while sleep 0.01; do :; done' & sleep 1 echo "Running: ethtool -d $DEV" time ethtool -d $DEV > /dev/null kill %1 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_on echo "Measured latency: $(</sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency) us" echo "To see the latency trace: less /sys/kernel/tracing/trace" The patch lowers the latency from 180 ms to 53 ms on my test system with voluntary preemption. Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240930201307.330692-3-mschmidt@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_debug.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_debug.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_debug.c
index f67be4b8ad43..464a72afb758 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_debug.c
@@ -2873,6 +2873,7 @@ static u32 qed_grc_dump_ctx_data(struct qed_hwfn *p_hwfn,
false,
SPLIT_TYPE_NONE, 0);
}
+ cond_resched();
}
return offset;