spi: core: avoid waking pump thread from spi_sync instead run teardown delayed

When spi_sync is running alone with no other spi devices connected
to the bus the worker thread is woken during spi_finalize_current_message
to run the teardown code every time.

This is totally unnecessary in the case that there is no message queued.

On a multi-core system this results in one wakeup of the thread for each
spi_message processed via spi_sync where in most cases the teardown does
not happen as the hw is already in use.

This patch now delays the teardown by 1 second by using a separate
kthread_delayed_work for the teardown.

This avoids waking the kthread too often.

For spi_sync transfers in a tight loop (say 40k messages/s) this
avoids the penalty of waking the worker thread 40k times/s.
On a rasperry pi 3 with 4 cores the results in 32% of a single core
only to find out that there is nothing in the queue and it can go back
to sleep.

With this patch applied the spi-worker is woken exactly once: after
the load finishes and the spi bus is idle for 1 second.

I believe I have also seen situations where during a spi_sync loop
the worker thread (triggered by the last message finished) is slightly
faster and _wins_ the race to process the message, so we are actually
running the kthread and letting it do some work...

This is also no longer observed with this patch applied as.

Tested with a new CAN controller driver for the mcp2517fd which
uses spi_sync for interrupt handling and spi_async for scheduling
of can frames for transmission (in a different thread)

Some statistics when receiving 100000 CAN frames with the mcp25xxfd driver
on a Raspberry pi 3:

without the patch:
------------------
root@raspcm3:~# for x in $(pgrep spi0) $(pgrep irq/94-mcp25xxf) ; do awk '{printf "%-20s %6i\n", $2,$15}' /proc/$x/stat; done
(spi0)                    5
(irq/94-mcp25xxf)         0
root@raspcm3:~# vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 1  0      0 821960  13592  50848    0    0    80     2 1986  105  1  2 97  0  0
 0  0      0 821968  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 8046   30  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0      0 821936  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 8032   24  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0      0 821936  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 8035   30  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0      0 821936  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 8033   22  0  0 100  0  0
 2  0      0 821936  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 11598 7129  0  3 97  0  0
 1  0      0 821872  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 37741 59003  0 31 69  0  0
 2  0      0 821840  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 37762 59078  0 29 71  0  0
 2  0      0 821776  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 37593 58792  0 28 72  0  0
 1  0      0 821744  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 37642 58881  0 30 70  0  0
 2  0      0 821680  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 37490 58602  0 27 73  0  0
 1  0      0 821648  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 37412 58418  0 29 71  0  0
 1  0      0 821584  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 37337 58288  0 27 73  0  0
 1  0      0 821552  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 37584 58774  0 27 73  0  0
 0  0      0 821520  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 18363 20566  0  9 91  0  0
 0  0      0 821520  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 8037   32  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0      0 821520  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 8031   23  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0      0 821520  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 8034   26  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0      0 821520  13592  50876    0    0     0     0 8033   24  0  0 100  0  0
^C
root@raspcm3:~# for x in $(pgrep spi0) $(pgrep irq/94-mcp25xxf) ; do awk '{printf "%-20s %6i\n", $2,$15}' /proc/$x/stat; done
(spi0)                  228
(irq/94-mcp25xxf)       794
root@raspcm3:~# cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
 17:         34          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level   1 Edge      3f00b880.mailbox
 27:          1          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  35 Edge      timer
 33:    1416870          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  41 Edge      3f980000.usb, dwc2_hsotg:usb1
 34:          1          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  42 Edge      vc4
 35:          0          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  43 Edge      3f004000.txp
 40:       1753          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  48 Edge      DMA IRQ
 42:         11          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  50 Edge      DMA IRQ
 44:         11          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  52 Edge      DMA IRQ
 45:          0          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  53 Edge      DMA IRQ
 66:          0          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  74 Edge      vc4 crtc
 69:          0          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  77 Edge      vc4 crtc
 70:          0          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  78 Edge      vc4 crtc
 77:         20          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  85 Edge      3f205000.i2c, 3f804000.i2c, 3f805000.i2c
 78:       6346          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  86 Edge      3f204000.spi
 80:        205          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  88 Edge      mmc0
 81:        493          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  89 Edge      uart-pl011
 89:          0          0          0          0  bcm2836-timer   0 Edge      arch_timer
 90:       4291       3821       2180       1649  bcm2836-timer   1 Edge      arch_timer
 94:      14289          0          0          0  pinctrl-bcm2835  16 Level     mcp25xxfd
IPI0:          0          0          0          0  CPU wakeup interrupts
IPI1:          0          0          0          0  Timer broadcast interrupts
IPI2:       3645     242371       7919       1328  Rescheduling interrupts
IPI3:        112        543        273        194  Function call interrupts
IPI4:          0          0          0          0  CPU stop interrupts
IPI5:          1          0          0          0  IRQ work interrupts
IPI6:          0          0          0          0  completion interrupts
Err:          0

top shows 93% for the mcp25xxfd interrupt handler, 31% for spi0.

with the patch:
---------------
root@raspcm3:~# for x in $(pgrep spi0) $(pgrep irq/94-mcp25xxf) ; do awk '{printf "%-20s %6i\n", $2,$15}' /proc/$x/stat; done
(spi0)                    0
(irq/94-mcp25xxf)         0
root@raspcm3:~# vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu-----
 0  0      0 804768  13584  62628    0    0     0     0 8038   24  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0      0 804768  13584  62628    0    0     0     0 8042   25  0  0 100  0  0
 1  0      0 804704  13584  62628    0    0     0     0 9603 2967  0 20 80  0  0
 1  0      0 804672  13584  62628    0    0     0     0 9828 3380  0 24 76  0  0
 1  0      0 804608  13584  62628    0    0     0     0 9823 3375  0 23 77  0  0
 1  0      0 804608  13584  62628    0    0     0    12 9829 3394  0 23 77  0  0
 1  0      0 804544  13584  62628    0    0     0     0 9816 3362  0 22 78  0  0
 1  0      0 804512  13584  62628    0    0     0     0 9817 3367  0 23 77  0  0
 1  0      0 804448  13584  62628    0    0     0     0 9822 3370  0 22 78  0  0
 1  0      0 804416  13584  62628    0    0     0     0 9815 3367  0 23 77  0  0
 0  0      0 804352  13584  62628    0    0     0    84 9222 2250  0 14 86  0  0
 0  0      0 804352  13592  62620    0    0     0    24 8131  209  0  0 93  7  0
 0  0      0 804320  13592  62628    0    0     0     0 8041   27  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0      0 804352  13592  62628    0    0     0     0 8040   26  0  0 100  0  0
root@raspcm3:~# for x in $(pgrep spi0) $(pgrep irq/94-mcp25xxf) ; do awk '{printf "%-20s %6i\n", $2,$15}' /proc/$x/stat; done
(spi0)                    0
(irq/94-mcp25xxf)       767
root@raspcm3:~# cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
 17:         29          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level   1 Edge      3f00b880.mailbox
 27:          1          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  35 Edge      timer
 33:    1024412          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  41 Edge      3f980000.usb, dwc2_hsotg:usb1
 34:          1          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  42 Edge      vc4
 35:          0          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  43 Edge      3f004000.txp
 40:       1773          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  48 Edge      DMA IRQ
 42:         11          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  50 Edge      DMA IRQ
 44:         11          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  52 Edge      DMA IRQ
 45:          0          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  53 Edge      DMA IRQ
 66:          0          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  74 Edge      vc4 crtc
 69:          0          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  77 Edge      vc4 crtc
 70:          0          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  78 Edge      vc4 crtc
 77:         20          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  85 Edge      3f205000.i2c, 3f804000.i2c, 3f805000.i2c
 78:       6417          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  86 Edge      3f204000.spi
 80:        237          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  88 Edge      mmc0
 81:        489          0          0          0  ARMCTRL-level  89 Edge      uart-pl011
 89:          0          0          0          0  bcm2836-timer   0 Edge      arch_timer
 90:       4048       3704       2383       1892  bcm2836-timer   1 Edge      arch_timer
 94:      14287          0          0          0  pinctrl-bcm2835  16 Level     mcp25xxfd
IPI0:          0          0          0          0  CPU wakeup interrupts
IPI1:          0          0          0          0  Timer broadcast interrupts
IPI2:       2361       2948       7890       1616  Rescheduling interrupts
IPI3:         65        617        301        166  Function call interrupts
IPI4:          0          0          0          0  CPU stop interrupts
IPI5:          1          0          0          0  IRQ work interrupts
IPI6:          0          0          0          0  completion interrupts
Err:          0
top shows 91% for the mcp25xxfd interrupt handler, 0% for spi0

So we see that spi0 is no longer getting scheduled wasting CPU cycles
There are a lot less context switches and corresponding Rescheduling interrupts
All of these show that this improves efficiency of the system and reduces
CPU utilization.

Signed-off-by: Martin Sperl <kernel@martin.sperl.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/spi/spi.h b/include/linux/spi/spi.h
index 916bba47d156..79ad62e2487c 100644
--- a/include/linux/spi/spi.h
+++ b/include/linux/spi/spi.h
@@ -334,6 +334,7 @@ static inline void spi_unregister_driver(struct spi_driver *sdrv)
  * @kworker: thread struct for message pump
  * @kworker_task: pointer to task for message pump kworker thread
  * @pump_messages: work struct for scheduling work to the message pump
+ * @pump_idle_teardown: work structure for scheduling a teardown delayed
  * @queue_lock: spinlock to syncronise access to message queue
  * @queue: message queue
  * @idling: the device is entering idle state
@@ -532,6 +533,7 @@ struct spi_controller {
 	struct kthread_worker		kworker;
 	struct task_struct		*kworker_task;
 	struct kthread_work		pump_messages;
+	struct kthread_delayed_work     pump_idle_teardown;
 	spinlock_t			queue_lock;
 	struct list_head		queue;
 	struct spi_message		*cur_msg;