[RFC 0/6] Multi-thread per-cpu ksoftirqd

Dmitry Safonov
2018-01-18T16:12:44Z

Another attempt to solve softirq deferring problems.
There are at least two problems, AFAIK:
o deferring one softirq to ksoftirqd results in latencies for other
(different type) softirqs by the reason of ksoftirqd_running()
decision for deferring/servicing.
o The logic in __do_softirq() that checks if (pending) after 2ms of
processing doesn't work on some machines during i.e. UDP storm.

So, what's done here in attempt to improve this is:
- added boot param to separate softirqs in deffer-groups
- per each softirq-group there is a ksoftirqd (per-cpu also)

The last two patches might be just a brain fart as I tried to improve
the metric on which the decision to defer is based.
I measure the time spent to serve each softirq and account that time
to ksoftirqd thread of that softirq-group. After that the decision
to serve/defer a softirq is based on the comparison:
(current->vruntime < ksoftirqd->vruntime)
Ugh, time measures and updating ksoftirqd cpu time each tick might be
costly.. And it looks like it doesn't work as expected: a new task is
being started with normalized vruntime (min_vruntime), which is lower
than ksoftirqd's. And time spent on servicing softirqs are still bigger
than any running task.
Anyway, sending this as RFC, may be some one will like the approach
(or suggests some other ideas).

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radu Rendec <rrendec@arista.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>

Dmitry Safonov (6):
softirq: Add softirq_groups boot parameter
softirq: Introduce mask for __do_softirq()
softirq: Add reverse group-to-softirq map
softirq: Run per-group per-cpu ksoftirqd thread
softirq: Add time accounting per-softirq type
softirq/sched: Account si cpu time to ksoftirqd(s)

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 16 ++
include/linux/hardirq.h | 2 +-
include/linux/interrupt.h | 26 +-
include/linux/vtime.h | 10 +-
init/Kconfig | 10 +
kernel/sched/cputime.c | 60 +++-
kernel/sched/fair.c | 38 +++
kernel/sched/sched.h | 20 ++
kernel/softirq.c | 362 ++++++++++++++++++++----
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 2 +-
10 files changed, 464 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)

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