linux-kernel - [PATCH V3] Softirq:avoid large sched delay from the pending softirqs

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Date:   Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:54:01 -0400
From:   qianjun.kernel@...il.com
To:     tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, will@...nel.org,
        luto@...nel.org, urezki@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     laoar.shao@...il.com, jun qian <qianjun.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH V3] Softirq:avoid large sched delay from the pending softirqs

From: jun qian <qianjun.kernel@...il.com>

When get the pending softirqs, it need to process all the pending
softirqs in the while loop. If the processing time of each pending
softirq is need more than 2 msec in this loop, or one of the softirq
will running a long time, according to the original code logic, it
will process all the pending softirqs without wakeuping ksoftirqd,
which will cause a relatively large scheduling delay on the
corresponding CPU, which we do not wish to see. The patch will check
the total time to process pending softirq, if the time exceeds 2 ms
we need to wakeup the ksofirqd to aviod large sched delay.

Signed-off-by: jun qian <qianjun.kernel@...il.com>
---
 kernel/softirq.c | 21 +++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index c4201b7f..8f47554 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -200,17 +200,15 @@ void __local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip, unsigned int cnt)
 /*
  * We restart softirq processing for at most MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART times,
  * but break the loop if need_resched() is set or after 2 ms.
- * The MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME provides a nice upper bound in most cases, but in
- * certain cases, such as stop_machine(), jiffies may cease to
- * increment and so we need the MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART limit as
- * well to make sure we eventually return from this method.
+ * In the loop, if the processing time of the softirq has exceeded 2
+ * milliseconds, we also need to break the loop to wakeup the ksofirqd.
  *
  * These limits have been established via experimentation.
  * The two things to balance is latency against fairness -
  * we want to handle softirqs as soon as possible, but they
  * should not be able to lock up the box.
  */
-#define MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME  msecs_to_jiffies(2)
+#define MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME_NS 2000000
 #define MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART 10
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
@@ -248,7 +246,7 @@ static inline void lockdep_softirq_end(bool in_hardirq) { }
 
 asmlinkage __visible void __softirq_entry __do_softirq(void)
 {
-	unsigned long end = jiffies + MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME;
+	ktime_t end = ktime_get() + MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME_NS;
 	unsigned long old_flags = current->flags;
 	int max_restart = MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART;
 	struct softirq_action *h;
@@ -299,6 +297,13 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __softirq_entry __do_softirq(void)
 		}
 		h++;
 		pending >>= softirq_bit;
+
+		/*
+		 * the softirq's action has been running for too much time
+		 * so it may need to wakeup the ksoftirqd
+		 */
+		if (need_resched() && ktime_get() > end)
+			break;
 	}
 
 	if (__this_cpu_read(ksoftirqd) == current)
@@ -307,8 +312,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __softirq_entry __do_softirq(void)
 
 	pending = local_softirq_pending();
 	if (pending) {
-		if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched() &&
-		    --max_restart)
+		if (!need_resched() && --max_restart &&
+		    ktime_get() <= end)
 			goto restart;
 
 		wakeup_softirqd();
-- 
1.8.3.1