netdev - Re: in_irq_or_nmi() and RFC patch

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Date:   Wed, 5 Apr 2017 09:53:52 +0100
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@...hat.com>,
        Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: in_irq_or_nmi() and RFC patch

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 01:05:06PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Started performance benchmarking:
> >  163 cycles = current state
> >  183 cycles = with BH disable + in_irq
> >  218 cycles = with BH disable + in_irq + irqs_disabled
> > 
> > Thus, the performance numbers unfortunately looks bad, once we add the
> > test for irqs_disabled().  The slowdown by replacing preempt_disable
> > with BH-disable is still a win (we saved 29 cycles before, and loose
> > 20, I was expecting regression to be only 10 cycles).
> > 
> 
> This surprises me because I'm not seeing the same severity of problems
> with irqs_disabled. Your path is slower than what's currently upstream
> but it's still far better than a revert. The softirq column in the
> middle is your patch versus a full revert which is the last columnm
> 

Any objection to resending the local_bh_enable/disable patch with the
in_interrupt() check based on this data or should I post the revert and
go back to the drawing board?

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs