genirq: Avoid summation loops for /proc/stat
commit1136b0728969901a091f0471968b2b76ed14d9ad
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 8 Feb 2019 13:48:03 +0000 (8 14:48 +0100)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:34:45 +0000 (10 21:34 +0100)
tree636c5fbc5e7b28cbb6454323dde1cf9775a4c9a1
parent347253c42d7c673aa2a659d756bc7ff893459247
genirq: Avoid summation loops for /proc/stat

Waiman reported that on large systems with a large amount of interrupts the
readout of /proc/stat takes a long time to sum up the interrupt
statistics. In principle this is not a problem. but for unknown reasons
some enterprise quality software reads /proc/stat with a high frequency.

The reason for this is that interrupt statistics are accounted per cpu. So
the /proc/stat logic has to sum up the interrupt stats for each interrupt.

This can be largely avoided for interrupts which are not marked as
'PER_CPU' interrupts by simply adding a per interrupt summation counter
which is incremented along with the per interrupt per cpu counter.

The PER_CPU interrupts need to avoid that and use only per cpu accounting
because they share the interrupt number and the interrupt descriptor and
concurrent updates would conflict or require unwanted synchronization.

Reported-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190208135020.925487496@linutronix.de
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v2: Undo the unintentional layout change of struct irq_desc.

 include/linux/irqdesc.h |    1 +
 kernel/irq/chip.c       |   12 ++++++++++--
 kernel/irq/internals.h  |    8 +++++++-
 kernel/irq/irqdesc.c    |    7 ++++++-
 4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
include/linux/irqdesc.h
kernel/irq/chip.c
kernel/irq/internals.h
kernel/irq/irqdesc.c