提交 ab5cdc31 编写于 作者: L Leon Romanovsky 提交者: Doug Ledford

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: NLeon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: NEli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: NDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
上级 0ef2f05c
......@@ -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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