Re: [PATCH 1/4] softirq: implement IRQ flood detection mechanism

Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-27T16:19:48Z

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Ming Lei wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * Update average irq interval with the Exponential Weighted Moving
> > + * Average(EWMA)
> > + */
> > +static void irq_update_interval(void)
> > +{
> > +#define IRQ_INTERVAL_EWMA_WEIGHT 128
> > +#define IRQ_INTERVAL_EWMA_PREV_FACTOR 127
> > +#define IRQ_INTERVAL_EWMA_CURR_FACTOR (IRQ_INTERVAL_EWMA_WEIGHT - \
> > + IRQ_INTERVAL_EWMA_PREV_FACTOR)
>
> Please do not stick defines into a function body. That's horrible.
>
> > +
> > + int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
> > + struct irq_interval *inter = per_cpu_ptr(&avg_irq_interval, cpu);
> > + u64 delta = sched_clock_cpu(cpu) - inter->last_irq_end;
>
> Why are you doing that raw_smp_processor_id() dance? The call site has
> interrupts and preemption disabled.
>
> Also how is that supposed to work when sched_clock is jiffies based?
>
> > + inter->avg = (inter->avg * IRQ_INTERVAL_EWMA_PREV_FACTOR +
> > + delta * IRQ_INTERVAL_EWMA_CURR_FACTOR) /
> > + IRQ_INTERVAL_EWMA_WEIGHT;
>
> We definitely are not going to have a 64bit multiplication and division on
> every interrupt. Asided of that this breaks 32bit builds all over the place.

That said, we already have infrastructure for something like this in the
core interrupt code which is optimized to be lightweight in the fast path.

kernel/irq/timings.c

Talk to Daniel Lezcano (Cc'ed) how you can (ab)use that.

Thanks,

tglx