On 11/09/2015 02:57 AM, Sinan Kaya wrote: > The mpt2sas and mpt3sas drivers are spinning forever in > their IRQ handlers if there are a lot of jobs queued up > by the PCIe card. This handler is causing spikes for > the rest of the system and sluggish behavior. > > Marking all MSI interrupts as non-shared and moving the > MSI interrupts to thread context. This relexes the rest > of the system execution. > NACK.
If there is a scalability issue when handling interrupts it should be fixed in the driver directly. Looking at the driver is should be possible to implement a worker thread handling the reply descriptor, and having the interrupt only to fetch the reply descriptor. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage h...@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
