Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference

[Chris Metcalf]

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@xxxxxxxxxx>

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! :-)

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com

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