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Revert "softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job" 

This reverts the following commits:

  4cd13c21b2 ("softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job")
  3c53776e29 ("Mark HI and TASKLET softirq synchronous")
  1342d8080f ("softirq: Don't skip softirq execution when softirq thread is parking")

in a single change to avoid known bad intermediate states introduced by a
patch series reverting them individually.

Due to the mentioned commit, when the ksoftirqd threads take charge of
softirq processing, the system can experience high latencies.

In the past a few workarounds have been implemented for specific
side-effects of the initial ksoftirqd enforcement commit:

commit 1ff688209e ("watchdog: core: make sure the watchdog_worker is not deferred")
commit 8d5755b3f7 ("watchdog: softdog: fire watchdog even if softirqs do not get to run")
commit 217f697436 ("net: busy-poll: allow preemption in sk_busy_loop()")
commit 3c53776e29 ("Mark HI and TASKLET softirq synchronous")

But the latency problem still exists in real-life workloads, see the link
below.

The reverted commit intended to solve a live-lock scenario that can now be
addressed with the NAPI threaded mode, introduced with commit 29863d41bb
("net: implement threaded-able napi poll loop support"), which is nowadays
in a pretty stable status.

While a complete solution to put softirq processing under nice resource
control would be preferable, that has proven to be a very hard task. In
the short term, remove the main pain point, and also simplify a bit the
current softirq implementation.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/305d7742212cbe98621b16be782b0562f1012cb6.camel@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/57e66b364f1b6f09c9bc0316742c3b14f4ce83bd.1683526542.git.pabeni@redhat.com
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Paolo Abeni 2023-05-08 08:17:44 +02:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent ac9a78681b
commit d15121be74
1 changed files with 2 additions and 20 deletions
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@ -80,21 +80,6 @@ static void wakeup_softirqd(void)
wake_up_process(tsk);
}
/*
* If ksoftirqd is scheduled, we do not want to process pending softirqs
* right now. Let ksoftirqd handle this at its own rate, to get fairness,
* unless we're doing some of the synchronous softirqs.
*/
#define SOFTIRQ_NOW_MASK ((1 << HI_SOFTIRQ) | (1 << TASKLET_SOFTIRQ))
static bool ksoftirqd_running(unsigned long pending)
{
struct task_struct *tsk = __this_cpu_read(ksoftirqd);
if (pending & SOFTIRQ_NOW_MASK)
return false;
return tsk && task_is_running(tsk) && !__kthread_should_park(tsk);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, hardirqs_enabled);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, hardirq_context);
@ -236,7 +221,7 @@ void __local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip, unsigned int cnt)
goto out;
pending = local_softirq_pending();
if (!pending || ksoftirqd_running(pending))
if (!pending)
goto out;
/*
@ -432,9 +417,6 @@ static inline bool should_wake_ksoftirqd(void)
static inline void invoke_softirq(void)
{
if (ksoftirqd_running(local_softirq_pending()))
return;
if (!force_irqthreads() || !__this_cpu_read(ksoftirqd)) {
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
/*
@ -468,7 +450,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void do_softirq(void)
pending = local_softirq_pending();
if (pending && !ksoftirqd_running(pending))
if (pending)
do_softirq_own_stack();
local_irq_restore(flags);