linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] fix slowness of /proc/stat per-cpu IRQ sum calculation on large system by a new counter

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Date:	Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:37:36 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>, yinghai@...nel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix slowness of /proc/stat per-cpu IRQ sum calculation
 on large system by a new counter

Jack Steiner reported slowness of /proc/stat on a large system.
This patch set tries to improve it.

> The combination of the 2 patches solves the problem.
> The timings are (4096p, 256 nodes, 4592 irqs):
> 
> 	# time cat /proc/stat > /dev/null
> 
> 	Baseline:		12.627 sec
> 	Patch1  :		 2.459 sec
> 	Patch 1 + Patch 2:	  .561 sec

please review.

==
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

Problem: 'cat /proc/stat' is too slow on verrry bis system.

/proc/stat shows the total number of all interrupts to each cpu. But when
the number of IRQs are very large, it takes very long time and 'cat /proc/stat'
takes more than 10 secs. This is because sum of all irq events are counted
when /proc/stat is read. This patch adds "sum of all irq" counter percpu
and update it at events.

The cost of reading /proc/stat is important because it's used by major
applications as 'top', 'ps', 'w', etc....

A test on a host (4096cpu, 256 nodes, 4592 irqs) shows

 %time cat /proc/stat > /dev/null
 Before Patch:  12.627 sec
 After  Patch:  2.459 sec

Tested-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>
Acked-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
---
 fs/proc/stat.c              |    4 +---
 include/linux/kernel_stat.h |   14 ++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.36-rc7/fs/proc/stat.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.36-rc7.orig/fs/proc/stat.c
+++ linux-2.6.36-rc7/fs/proc/stat.c
@@ -52,9 +52,7 @@ static int show_stat(struct seq_file *p,
 		guest = cputime64_add(guest, kstat_cpu(i).cpustat.guest);
 		guest_nice = cputime64_add(guest_nice,
 			kstat_cpu(i).cpustat.guest_nice);
-		for_each_irq_nr(j) {
-			sum += kstat_irqs_cpu(j, i);
-		}
+		sum = kstat_cpu_irqs_sum(i);
 		sum += arch_irq_stat_cpu(i);
 
 		for (j = 0; j < NR_SOFTIRQS; j++) {
Index: linux-2.6.36-rc7/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.36-rc7.orig/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
+++ linux-2.6.36-rc7/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ struct kernel_stat {
 #ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
        unsigned int irqs[NR_IRQS];
 #endif
+	unsigned long irqs_sum;
 	unsigned int softirqs[NR_SOFTIRQS];
 };
 
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ static inline void kstat_incr_irqs_this_
 					    struct irq_desc *desc)
 {
 	kstat_this_cpu.irqs[irq]++;
+	kstat_this_cpu.irqs_sum++;
 }
 
 static inline unsigned int kstat_irqs_cpu(unsigned int irq, int cpu)
@@ -65,8 +67,9 @@ static inline unsigned int kstat_irqs_cp
 extern unsigned int kstat_irqs_cpu(unsigned int irq, int cpu);
 #define kstat_irqs_this_cpu(DESC) \
 	((DESC)->kstat_irqs[smp_processor_id()])
-#define kstat_incr_irqs_this_cpu(irqno, DESC) \
-	((DESC)->kstat_irqs[smp_processor_id()]++)
+#define kstat_incr_irqs_this_cpu(irqno, DESC) do {\
+	((DESC)->kstat_irqs[smp_processor_id()]++);\
+	kstat_this_cpu.irqs_sum++; } while (0)
 
 #endif
 
@@ -94,6 +97,13 @@ static inline unsigned int kstat_irqs(un
 	return sum;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Number of interrupts per cpu, since bootup
+ */
+static inline unsigned int kstat_cpu_irqs_sum(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	return kstat_cpu(cpu).irqs_sum;
+}
 
 /*
  * Lock/unlock the current runqueue - to extract task statistics:

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