Re: [patch 0/2] genirq, proc: Speedup /proc/stat interrupt statistics

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:31:30 +0100 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Waiman reported that on large systems with a large amount of interrupts the
> > readout of /proc/stat takes a long time to sum up the interrupt
> > statistics. In principle this is not a problem. but for unknown reasons
> > some enterprise quality software reads /proc/stat with a high frequency.
> > 
> > The reason for this is that interrupt statistics are accounted per cpu. So
> > the /proc/stat logic has to sum up the interrupt stats for each interrupt.
> > 
> > The following series addresses this by making the interrupt statitics code
> > in the core generate the sum directly and by making the loop in the
> > /proc/stat read function smarter.
> > 
> 
> Has the speedup been quantified?

Waiman should be able to provide numbers