On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:19:55PM -0700, John Hawkes wrote:
> The "unhandled interrupts" catcher, note_interrupt(), increments a global
> desc->irq_count and grossly damages scaling of very large systems, e.g.,
> >192p ia64 Altix, because of this highly contented cacheline, especially
> for timer interrupts. 384p is severely crippled, and 512p is unuseable.
>
> All calls to note_interrupt() can be disabled by booting with "noirqdebug",
> but this disables the useful interrupt checking for all interrupts.
>
> I propose eliminating note_interrupt() for all per-CPU interrupts.
> This was the behavior of linux-2.6.10 and earlier, but in 2.6.11 a
> code restructuring added a call to note_interrupt() for per-CPU interrupts.
> Besides, note_interrupt() is a bit racy for concurrent CPU calls anyway,
> as the desc->irq_count++ increment isn't atomic (which, if done, would make
> scaling even worse).
Would it be reasonable for note_interrupt() to operate on per-CPU or
per-group-of-CPUs counters? Each CPU (or group) could either separately
count and check, or, if accuracy is important (can't see why it would
be), the per-CPU (or group) counters could be added to a global counter
every 100 (or 1,000 or whatever) counts, and this global counter then
checked against the limit.
Thanx, Paul
> Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> Index: linux/kernel/irq/handle.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/kernel/irq/handle.c 2005-03-01 23:38:37.000000000 -0800
> +++ linux/kernel/irq/handle.c 2005-05-18 11:02:18.000000000 -0700
> @@ -118,8 +118,6 @@
> */
> desc->handler->ack(irq);
> action_ret = handle_IRQ_event(irq, regs, desc->action);
> - if (!noirqdebug)
> - note_interrupt(irq, desc, action_ret);
> desc->handler->end(irq);
> return 1;
> }
>
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