From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Juri Lelli <jlelli@redhat.com>, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] lib/smp_processor_id: Don't use cpumask_equal()
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 16:18:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191003201835.19903-1-longman@redhat.com> (raw)
The check_preemption_disabled() function uses cpumask_equal() to see
if the task is bounded to the current CPU only. cpumask_equal() calls
memcmp() to do the comparison. As x86 doesn't have __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCMP,
the slow memcmp() function in lib/string.c is used.
On a RT kernel that call check_preemption_disabled() very frequently,
below is the perf-record output of a certain microbenchmark:
42.75% 2.45% testpmd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] check_preemption_disabled
40.01% 39.97% testpmd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memcmp
We should avoid calling memcmp() in performance critical path. So the
cpumask_equal() call is now replaced with an equivalent check that
makes no external function call.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
---
lib/smp_processor_id.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/smp_processor_id.c b/lib/smp_processor_id.c
index 60ba93fc42ce..3fee05ac92f8 100644
--- a/lib/smp_processor_id.c
+++ b/lib/smp_processor_id.c
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ unsigned int check_preemption_disabled(const char *what1, const char *what2)
* Kernel threads bound to a single CPU can safely use
* smp_processor_id():
*/
- if (cpumask_equal(current->cpus_ptr, cpumask_of(this_cpu)))
+ if ((current->nr_cpus_allowed == 1) &&
+ cpumask_test_cpu(this_cpu, current->cpus_ptr))
goto out;
/*
--
2.18.1
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