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From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@verizon.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Radu Rendec <rrendec@arista.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] softirq: Defer net rx/tx processing to ksoftirqd context
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:44:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180111044456.GC11633@lerouge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFx_3zwQJ0YbDCL4YxpWEWhcEZfJnn42LzWBWDi3h1VdGA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 08:19:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 7:22 PM, Frederic Weisbecker
> <frederic@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Makes sense, but I think you need to keep the TASK_RUNNING check.
> 
> Yes, good point.
> 
> > So perhaps it should be:
> >
> > -       return tsk && (tsk->state == TASK_RUNNING);
> > +       return (tsk == current) && (tsk->state == TASK_RUNNING);
> 
> Looks good to me - definitely worth trying.
> 
> Maybe that weakens the thing so much that it doesn't actually help the
> UDP packet storm case?
> 
> And maybe it's not sufficient for the dvb issue.
> 
> But I think it's worth at least testing. Maybe it makes neither side
> entirely happy, but maybe it might be a good halfway point?

Yes I believe Dmitry is facing a different problem where he would rather
see ksoftirqd scheduled more often to handle the queue as a deferred batch
instead of having it served one by one on the tails of IRQ storms.
(Dmitry correct me if I misunderstood).

But your patch still seems to make sense for the case you described: when
ksoftirqd is voluntarily preempted off and the current IRQ could handle the
queue.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-11  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-09 13:36 [RFC 0/2] Net softirq deferring to ksoftirqd Dmitry Safonov
2018-01-09 13:36 ` [RFC 1/2] softirq: Defer net rx/tx processing to ksoftirqd context Dmitry Safonov
2018-01-09 16:03   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-10 21:20     ` Dmitry Safonov
2018-01-09 18:02   ` Eric Dumazet
2018-01-10 21:48     ` Dmitry Safonov
2018-01-11  2:13       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-11  3:22         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-11  4:19           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-11  4:44             ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2018-01-11 14:31               ` Dmitry Safonov
2018-01-11 16:20                 ` Eric Dumazet
2018-01-11 16:32                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-11 16:38                     ` David Miller
2018-01-11 16:43                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-11 18:48                     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-11 19:15                       ` Eric Dumazet
2018-01-11 19:43                         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-11 19:48                           ` Eric Dumazet
2018-01-11 20:03                             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-11 20:16                               ` Eric Dumazet
2018-01-11 20:22                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-11 20:34                                   ` Dmitry Safonov
2018-01-11 20:37                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2018-01-11 20:40                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-11 20:46                                       ` Dmitry Safonov
2018-01-11 20:53                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2018-01-11 21:13                                           ` Dmitry Safonov
2018-01-12  5:41                                             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-12  5:23                                   ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-12 10:13                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 17:26                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-12 17:44                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-12 17:51                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-12 18:15                                             ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-12 18:44                                               ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-17 20:30                                                 ` David Miller
2018-01-17 21:06                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-17 21:49                                                     ` David Miller
2018-01-17 21:54                                                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-17 21:58                                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-17 22:00                                                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-17 22:02                                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2018-01-17 22:24                                                               ` David Miller
2018-01-17 22:54                                                                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-02-06 16:56                                                                 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-02-13 16:36                                                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-17 21:54                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-17 21:58                                                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-12 19:28                                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-12 19:53                                               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-12 14:58                                     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-12 15:15                                       ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-12 17:00                                         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-12 18:08                                           ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-12 17:24                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-09 13:36 ` [RFC 2/2] softirq: Introduce mask for __do_softirq() Dmitry Safonov

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