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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] aio-posix: move RCU_READ_LOCK() into run_poll_handlers()
Date: Thu,  5 Mar 2020 17:08:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200305170806.1313245-3-stefanha@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200305170806.1313245-1-stefanha@redhat.com>

Now that run_poll_handlers_once() is only called by run_poll_handlers()
we can improve the CPU time profile by moving the expensive
RCU_READ_LOCK() out of the polling loop.

This reduces the run_poll_handlers() from 40% CPU to 10% CPU in perf's
sampling profiler output.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
---
 util/aio-posix.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/util/aio-posix.c b/util/aio-posix.c
index 029f146455..38c51f5d8f 100644
--- a/util/aio-posix.c
+++ b/util/aio-posix.c
@@ -583,16 +583,6 @@ static bool run_poll_handlers_once(AioContext *ctx, int64_t *timeout)
     bool progress = false;
     AioHandler *node;
 
-    /*
-     * Optimization: ->io_poll() handlers often contain RCU read critical
-     * sections and we therefore see many rcu_read_lock() -> rcu_read_unlock()
-     * -> rcu_read_lock() -> ... sequences with expensive memory
-     * synchronization primitives.  Make the entire polling loop an RCU
-     * critical section because nested rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() calls
-     * are cheap.
-     */
-    RCU_READ_LOCK_GUARD();
-
     QLIST_FOREACH_RCU(node, &ctx->aio_handlers, node) {
         if (!QLIST_IS_INSERTED(node, node_deleted) && node->io_poll &&
             aio_node_check(ctx, node->is_external) &&
@@ -636,6 +626,16 @@ static bool run_poll_handlers(AioContext *ctx, int64_t max_ns, int64_t *timeout)
 
     trace_run_poll_handlers_begin(ctx, max_ns, *timeout);
 
+    /*
+     * Optimization: ->io_poll() handlers often contain RCU read critical
+     * sections and we therefore see many rcu_read_lock() -> rcu_read_unlock()
+     * -> rcu_read_lock() -> ... sequences with expensive memory
+     * synchronization primitives.  Make the entire polling loop an RCU
+     * critical section because nested rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() calls
+     * are cheap.
+     */
+    RCU_READ_LOCK_GUARD();
+
     start_time = qemu_clock_get_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME);
     do {
         progress = run_poll_handlers_once(ctx, timeout);
-- 
2.24.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-05 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-05 17:07 [PATCH 0/7] aio-posix: polling scalability improvements Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-05 17:08 ` [PATCH 1/7] aio-posix: completely stop polling when disabled Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-05 17:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2020-03-05 17:15   ` [PATCH 2/7] aio-posix: move RCU_READ_LOCK() into run_poll_handlers() Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-06 13:43     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-05 17:08 ` [PATCH 3/7] aio-posix: extract ppoll(2) and epoll(7) fd monitoring Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-05 17:08 ` [PATCH 4/7] aio-posix: simplify FDMonOps->update() prototype Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-05 17:08 ` [PATCH 5/7] aio-posix: add io_uring fd monitoring implementation Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-05 17:08 ` [PATCH 6/7] aio-posix: support userspace polling of fd monitoring Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-05 17:08 ` [PATCH 7/7] aio-posix: remove idle poll handlers to improve scalability Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-05 17:28   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-06 13:50     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-06 14:17       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-09 16:37         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-09 16:47 ` [PATCH 0/7] aio-posix: polling scalability improvements Stefan Hajnoczi

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