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* [PATCH 1/1] squashfs: Disable "percpu multiple decompressor" on RT
@ 2018-05-02 13:12 Alexander Stein
  2018-05-02 14:37 ` Julia Cartwright
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Stein @ 2018-05-02 13:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-rt-users; +Cc: Alexander Stein

This decompressor can introduce a huge latency when a to be executed
process have to read and decompress directly from mass storage.
Using a QSPI flash and squashfs, starting htop causes a latency of ~8000µs
to a running cyclictest. The "multiple decompressor" is fine though.
The cause is that squashfs_decompress() calls get_cpu_ptr(). If this is
done on all CPUs no task will be executed until the decompression has
finished.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
---
 fs/squashfs/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/squashfs/Kconfig b/fs/squashfs/Kconfig
index 1adb3346b9d6..246c5966173d 100644
--- a/fs/squashfs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/squashfs/Kconfig
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ config SQUASHFS_DECOMP_MULTI
 
 config SQUASHFS_DECOMP_MULTI_PERCPU
 	bool "Use percpu multiple decompressors for parallel I/O"
+	depends on !PREEMPT_RT_BASE
 	help
 	  By default Squashfs uses a single decompressor but it gives
 	  poor performance on parallel I/O workloads when using multiple CPU
-- 
2.16.1


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2018-05-02 14:37 ` Julia Cartwright
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2018-05-03 15:48     ` Julia Cartwright
2018-05-07  6:09       ` Alexander Stein
2018-05-07 13:58         ` [PATCH RT 1/2] locallock: provide {get,put}_locked_ptr() variants Julia Cartwright
2018-05-07 13:58           ` [PATCH RT 2/2] squashfs: make use of local lock in multi_cpu decompressor Julia Cartwright

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