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Message-ID: <5c312294-773b-8b50-71dc-63a13af2d736@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:46:33 -0500
From: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>,
Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] genirq, proc: Speedup /proc/stat interrupt statistics
On 01/30/2019 07:31 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Waiman reported that on large systems with a large amount of interrupts the
> readout of /proc/stat takes a long time to sum up the interrupt
> statistics. In principle this is not a problem. but for unknown reasons
> some enterprise quality software reads /proc/stat with a high frequency.
>
> The reason for this is that interrupt statistics are accounted per cpu. So
> the /proc/stat logic has to sum up the interrupt stats for each interrupt.
>
> The following series addresses this by making the interrupt statitics code
> in the core generate the sum directly and by making the loop in the
> /proc/stat read function smarter.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
>
> 8<----------------
> fs/proc/stat.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> include/linux/irqdesc.h | 3 ++-
> kernel/irq/chip.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> kernel/irq/internals.h | 8 +++++++-
> kernel/irq/irqdesc.c | 7 ++++++-
> 5 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
>
>
For the whole series,
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
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