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ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond_resched() before poking RCU
authorCalvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>
Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:16:18 +0000 (13:16 -0800)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Fri, 3 Jul 2015 16:34:28 +0000 (12:34 -0400)
commit58528a8141f1012fbed6eaaf27ef4847b64b90e2
tree07a34dba3ff3db4d7c59a84dbb06e8fd0d3c7d8b
parentcd9d655c85429f37afb1ea3e2f56ff05303509ae
ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond_resched() before poking RCU

[ Upstream commit 28423ad283d5348793b0c45cc9b1af058e776fd6 ]

While debugging an issue with excessive softirq usage, I encountered the
following note in commit 3e339b5dae24a706 ("softirq: Use hotplug thread
infrastructure"):

    [ paulmck: Call rcu_note_context_switch() with interrupts enabled. ]

...but despite this note, the patch still calls RCU with IRQs disabled.

This seemingly innocuous change caused a significant regression in softirq
CPU usage on the sending side of a large TCP transfer (~1 GB/s): when
introducing 0.01% packet loss, the softirq usage would jump to around 25%,
spiking as high as 50%. Before the change, the usage would never exceed 5%.

Moving the call to rcu_note_context_switch() after the cond_sched() call,
as it was originally before the hotplug patch, completely eliminated this
problem.

Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
kernel/softirq.c