Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] softirq: Per vector threading v3

Paolo Abeni
2018-01-23T10:14:04Z

Hi,

On Fri, 2018-01-19 at 16:46 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> As per Linus suggestion, this take doesn't limit the number of occurences
> per jiffy anymore but instead defers a vector to workqueues as soon as
> it gets re-enqueued on IRQ tail.
>
> No tunable here, so testing should be easier.
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git
> softirq/thread-v3
>
> HEAD: 6835e92cbd70ef4a056987d2e1ed383b294429d4

I tested this series in the UDP flood scenario, binding the user space
process receiving the packets on the same CPU processing the related
IRQ, and the tput sinks nearly to 0, like before Eric's patch.

The perf tool says that almost all the softirq processing is done
inside the workqueue, but the user space process is scheduled very
rarely, while before this series, in this scenario, ksoftirqd and the
user space process got a fair share of the CPU time.

Cheers,

Paolo