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authorLeon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>2015-10-21 09:21:17 +0300
committerDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>2015-12-08 16:55:31 -0500
commitab5cdc31630c7596d81ca8fbe7d695f10666f39b (patch)
treec544b85a8b79e6bf9d1f57dc8eaf63df58b3154c /drivers/infiniband
parent0ef2f05c7e02ff99c0b5b583d7dee2cd12b053f2 (diff)
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IB/mlx5: Postpone remove_keys under knowledge of coming preemption
The remove_keys() logic is performed as garbage collection task. Such task is intended to be run when no other active processes are running. The need_resched() will return TRUE if there are user tasks to be activated in near future. In such case, we don't execute remove_keys() and postpone the garbage collection work to try to run in next cycle, in order to free CPU resources to other tasks. The possible pseudo-code to trigger such scenario: 1. Allocate a lot of MR to fill the cache above the limit. 2. Wait a small amount of time "to calm" the system. 3. Start CPU extensive operations on multi-node cluster. 4. Expect performance degradation during MR cache shrink operation. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
index ec8993a..6000f7a 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
@@ -381,7 +381,19 @@ static void __cache_work_func(struct mlx5_cache_ent *ent)
}
}
} else if (ent->cur > 2 * ent->limit) {
- if (!someone_adding(cache) &&
+ /*
+ * The remove_keys() logic is performed as garbage collection
+ * task. Such task is intended to be run when no other active
+ * processes are running.
+ *
+ * The need_resched() will return TRUE if there are user tasks
+ * to be activated in near future.
+ *
+ * In such case, we don't execute remove_keys() and postpone
+ * the garbage collection work to try to run in next cycle,
+ * in order to free CPU resources to other tasks.
+ */
+ if (!need_resched() && !someone_adding(cache) &&
time_after(jiffies, cache->last_add + 300 * HZ)) {
remove_keys(dev, i, 1);
if (ent->cur > ent->limit)
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