linux-kernel - Re: [Openipmi-developer] Improving IPMI performance under load

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Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:21:32 +0100
From:	Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@...itsu-siemens.com>
To:	Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
CC:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	"openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] Improving IPMI performance under load

Corey Minyard wrote:

> I would guess that changing the nice value is the main thing that caused 
> the difference.  The other changes probably didn't make as big a difference.

That's true, but setting the nice level to 0 isn't "nice" without 
kipmid_max_busy. The two parameters help to make sure that kipmid 
doesn't use excessive CPU time.

I am not sure about your reasons to call schedule() in every loop 
iteration. If there is no other process that needs to run, it will just 
waste cycles trying to figure that out. If there are other processes, 
you say yourself that "kipmid would never be scheduled in a
busy system". Does it really make sense to  call schedule() every 
microsecond? That's what kipmid effectively does if it waits for the KCS 
interface, because it'll do a port_inb() in every iteration which takes 
ca. 1us.

> I'm ok with tuning like this, but most users are probably not going to 
> want this type of behavior.

Let's wait and see :-)

Martin

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