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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


             reply	other threads:[~2019-10-03 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-03 20:18 Waiman Long [this message]
2019-10-03 20:37 ` [PATCH] lib/smp_processor_id: Don't use cpumask_equal() Waiman Long

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