The Watchdog workqueue in igb driver is scheduled every 2s for each
network interface. That includes updating a statistics protected by
spinlock. Function igb_update_stats in this case will be protected
against preemption. According to number of a statistics registers
(cca 60), processing this function might cause additional cpu load
on CPU0.
In case of statistics spinlock may be replaced with mutex, which
reduce latency on CPU0.
# Measurements
Measurements were performed on Intel Atom E3950 (Quad-Core),
E3930 (Dual-Core)
# Cyclictest
High latency is always on CPU0 which might be in range
from 70us to 140us (sometimes higher)
# cyclictest -l1000000 -Smp90 -i200 -q
# E3930
# default
T: 0 ( 1745) P:90 I:200 C:1000000 Min: 2 Act: 3 Avg: 3 Max: 72
T: 1 ( 1746) P:90 I:700 C: 285737 Min: 3 Act: 4 Avg: 3 Max: 13
# with patch
T: 0 ( 932) P:90 I:200 C:1000000 Min: 2 Act: 3 Avg: 3 Max: 22
T: 1 ( 933) P:90 I:700 C: 285736 Min: 2 Act: 3 Avg: 3 Max: 12
# E3950
# default
T: 0 ( 1103) P:90 I:200 C:1000000 Min: 2 Act: 2 Avg: 2 Max: 89
T: 1 ( 1104) P:90 I:700 C: 285738 Min: 2 Act: 4 Avg: 2 Max: 9
T: 2 ( 1105) P:90 I:1200 C: 166678 Min: 2 Act: 5 Avg: 3 Max: 22
T: 3 ( 1106) P:90 I:1700 C: 117653 Min: 2 Act: 6 Avg: 2 Max: 13
# with patch
T: 0 ( 879) P:90 I:200 C:1000000 Min: 2 Act: 3 Avg: 3 Max: 26
T: 1 ( 880) P:90 I:700 C: 285729 Min: 3 Act: 4 Avg: 3 Max: 22
T: 2 ( 881) P:90 I:1200 C: 166672 Min: 3 Act: 7 Avg: 3 Max: 24
T: 3 ( 882) P:90 I:1700 C: 117649 Min: 3 Act: 7 Avg: 3 Max: 8
Additionally I think updating statistics and watchdog task should
be implemented in 2 separated ways
Patch is created against a linux-4.4
Reviewed also by: Bernhard Kaindl <bernhard.kai...@thalesgroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Jablonsky <jan.jablon...@thalesgroup.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.h | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 14 +++++++-------
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.h
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.h
index e3cb93b..85d68ea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.h
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ struct igb_adapter {
/* OS defined structs */
struct pci_dev *pdev;
- spinlock_t stats64_lock;
+ struct mutex stats64_lock;
struct rtnl_link_stats64 stats64;
/* structs defined in e1000_hw.h */
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
index 2529bc6..07cc2b6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
@@ -2276,7 +2276,7 @@ static void igb_get_ethtool_stats(struct
net_device *netdev,
int i, j;
char *p;
- spin_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
igb_update_stats(adapter, net_stats);
for (i = 0; i < IGB_GLOBAL_STATS_LEN; i++) {
@@ -2319,7 +2319,7 @@ static void igb_get_ethtool_stats(struct
net_device *netdev,
} while (u64_stats_fetch_retry_irq(&ring->rx_syncp, start));
i += IGB_RX_QUEUE_STATS_LEN;
}
- spin_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
}
static void igb_get_strings(struct net_device *netdev, u32 stringset,
u8 *data)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index 02b23f6..9d22398 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -1810,9 +1810,9 @@ void igb_down(struct igb_adapter *adapter)
del_timer_sync(&adapter->phy_info_timer);
/* record the stats before reset*/
- spin_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
igb_update_stats(adapter, &adapter->stats64);
- spin_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
adapter->link_speed = 0;
adapter->link_duplex = 0;
@@ -2975,7 +2975,7 @@ static int igb_sw_init(struct igb_adapter
*adapter)
VLAN_HLEN;
adapter->min_frame_size = ETH_ZLEN + ETH_FCS_LEN;
- spin_lock_init(&adapter->stats64_lock);
+ mutex_init(&adapter->stats64_lock);
#ifdef CONFIG_PCI_IOV
switch (hw->mac.type) {
case e1000_82576:
@@ -4367,9 +4367,9 @@ static void igb_watchdog_task(struct work_struct
*work)
}
}
- spin_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
igb_update_stats(adapter, &adapter->stats64);
- spin_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
for (i = 0; i < adapter->num_tx_queues; i++) {
struct igb_ring *tx_ring = adapter->tx_ring[i];
@@ -5152,10 +5152,10 @@ static struct rtnl_link_stats64
*igb_get_stats64(struct net_device *netdev,
{
struct igb_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
- spin_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
igb_update_stats(adapter, &adapter->stats64);
memcpy(stats, &adapter->stats64, sizeof(*stats));
- spin_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock);
return stats;
}
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