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[V2,3/3] scsi: mptxsas: offload IRQ execution

Message ID 1447034266-28003-4-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org (mailing list archive)
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Sinan Kaya Nov. 9, 2015, 1:57 a.m. UTC
The mpt2sas and mpt3sas drivers are spinning forever in
their IRQ handlers if there are a lot of jobs queued up
by the PCIe card. This handler is causing spikes for
the rest of the system and sluggish behavior.

Marking all MSI interrupts as non-shared and moving the
MSI interrupts to thread context. This relexes the rest
of the system execution.

Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
---
 drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c | 12 ++++++++----
 drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c | 13 +++++++++----
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Comments

Hannes Reinecke Nov. 9, 2015, 7:15 a.m. UTC | #1
On 11/09/2015 02:57 AM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> The mpt2sas and mpt3sas drivers are spinning forever in
> their IRQ handlers if there are a lot of jobs queued up
> by the PCIe card. This handler is causing spikes for
> the rest of the system and sluggish behavior.
> 
> Marking all MSI interrupts as non-shared and moving the
> MSI interrupts to thread context. This relexes the rest
> of the system execution.
> 
NACK.

If there is a scalability issue when handling interrupts
it should be fixed in the driver directly.

Looking at the driver is should be possible to implement
a worker thread handling the reply descriptor, and having the
interrupt only to fetch the reply descriptor.

Cheers,

Hannes
Sinan Kaya Nov. 9, 2015, 2:01 p.m. UTC | #2
On 11/9/2015 2:15 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 11/09/2015 02:57 AM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> The mpt2sas and mpt3sas drivers are spinning forever in
>> their IRQ handlers if there are a lot of jobs queued up
>> by the PCIe card. This handler is causing spikes for
>> the rest of the system and sluggish behavior.
>>
>> Marking all MSI interrupts as non-shared and moving the
>> MSI interrupts to thread context. This relexes the rest
>> of the system execution.
>>
> NACK.
>
> If there is a scalability issue when handling interrupts
> it should be fixed in the driver directly.
>
> Looking at the driver is should be possible to implement
> a worker thread handling the reply descriptor, and having the
> interrupt only to fetch the reply descriptor.

I'll take a look.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Hannes
>
Sinan Kaya Nov. 10, 2015, 5:59 a.m. UTC | #3
On 11/9/2015 2:15 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 11/09/2015 02:57 AM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> The mpt2sas and mpt3sas drivers are spinning forever in
>> their IRQ handlers if there are a lot of jobs queued up
>> by the PCIe card. This handler is causing spikes for
>> the rest of the system and sluggish behavior.
>>
>> Marking all MSI interrupts as non-shared and moving the
>> MSI interrupts to thread context. This relexes the rest
>> of the system execution.
>>
> NACK.
>
> If there is a scalability issue when handling interrupts
> it should be fixed in the driver directly.
>
> Looking at the driver is should be possible to implement
> a worker thread handling the reply descriptor, and having the
> interrupt only to fetch the reply descriptor.
>

Can you go into the detail about which part of the _base_interrupt 
function needs to be executed in ISR context and which part can be 
queued up to worker thread?

I'm not familiar with the hardware or the code. That's why, I moved the 
entire ISR into the thread context.



> Cheers,
>
> Hannes
>
Christopher Covington March 16, 2016, 3:31 p.m. UTC | #4
On 11/10/2015 12:59 AM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> 
> On 11/9/2015 2:15 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> On 11/09/2015 02:57 AM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>>> The mpt2sas and mpt3sas drivers are spinning forever in
>>> their IRQ handlers if there are a lot of jobs queued up
>>> by the PCIe card. This handler is causing spikes for
>>> the rest of the system and sluggish behavior.
>>>
>>> Marking all MSI interrupts as non-shared and moving the
>>> MSI interrupts to thread context. This relexes the rest
>>> of the system execution.
>>>
>> NACK.
>>
>> If there is a scalability issue when handling interrupts
>> it should be fixed in the driver directly.
>>
>> Looking at the driver is should be possible to implement
>> a worker thread handling the reply descriptor, and having the
>> interrupt only to fetch the reply descriptor.
>>
> 
> Can you go into the detail about which part of the _base_interrupt
> function needs to be executed in ISR context and which part can be
> queued up to worker thread?
> 
> I'm not familiar with the hardware or the code. That's why, I moved the
> entire ISR into the thread context.

Hannes or others, any suggestions?

Thanks,
Christopher Covington
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c
index c61c82a..b619a0e 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c
@@ -1359,14 +1359,18 @@  _base_request_irq(struct MPT2SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, u8 index, u32 vector)
 	cpumask_clear(reply_q->affinity_hint);
 
 	atomic_set(&reply_q->busy, 0);
-	if (ioc->msix_enable)
+	if (ioc->msix_enable) {
 		snprintf(reply_q->name, MPT_NAME_LENGTH, "%s%d-msix%d",
 		    MPT2SAS_DRIVER_NAME, ioc->id, index);
-	else
+		r = request_threaded_irq(vector, NULL, _base_interrupt,
+					 IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING | IRQF_ONESHOT,
+					 reply_q->name, reply_q);
+	} else {
 		snprintf(reply_q->name, MPT_NAME_LENGTH, "%s%d",
 		    MPT2SAS_DRIVER_NAME, ioc->id);
-	r = request_irq(vector, _base_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED, reply_q->name,
-	    reply_q);
+		r = request_irq(vector, _base_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED,
+				reply_q->name, reply_q);
+	}
 	if (r) {
 		printk(MPT2SAS_ERR_FMT "unable to allocate interrupt %d!\n",
 		    reply_q->name, vector);
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
index 6dc391c..62bee43 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
@@ -1661,14 +1661,19 @@  _base_request_irq(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, u8 index, u32 vector)
 	cpumask_clear(reply_q->affinity_hint);
 
 	atomic_set(&reply_q->busy, 0);
-	if (ioc->msix_enable)
+	if (ioc->msix_enable) {
 		snprintf(reply_q->name, MPT_NAME_LENGTH, "%s%d-msix%d",
 		    MPT3SAS_DRIVER_NAME, ioc->id, index);
-	else
+
+		r = request_threaded_irq(vector, NULL, _base_interrupt,
+					 IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING | IRQF_ONESHOT,
+					 reply_q->name, reply_q);
+	} else {
 		snprintf(reply_q->name, MPT_NAME_LENGTH, "%s%d",
 		    MPT3SAS_DRIVER_NAME, ioc->id);
-	r = request_irq(vector, _base_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED, reply_q->name,
-	    reply_q);
+		r = request_irq(vector, _base_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED,
+				reply_q->name, reply_q);
+	}
 	if (r) {
 		pr_err(MPT3SAS_FMT "unable to allocate interrupt %d!\n",
 		    reply_q->name, vector);