[PATCH] net/mlx5: Added cond_resched() to crdump collection

From: Mohamed Khalfella
Date: Mon Aug 19 2024 - 17:43:29 EST


Collecting crdump involves dumping vsc registers from pci config space
of mlx device. The code can run for long time starving other threads
want to run on the cpu. Added conditional reschedule between register
reads and while waiting for register value to release the cpu more
often.

Reviewed-by: Yuanyuan Zhong <yzhong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Khalfella <mkhalfella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/pci_vsc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/pci_vsc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/pci_vsc.c
index d0b595ba6110..377cc39643b4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/pci_vsc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/pci_vsc.c
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ static int mlx5_vsc_wait_on_flag(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u8 expected_val)
if ((retries & 0xf) == 0)
usleep_range(1000, 2000);

+ cond_resched();
} while (flag != expected_val);

return 0;
@@ -280,6 +281,7 @@ int mlx5_vsc_gw_read_block_fast(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u32 *data,
return read_addr;

read_addr = next_read_addr;
+ cond_resched();
}
return length;
}
--
2.45.2