From 59361316afcb08569af21e1af83e89c7051c055a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 10:13:10 -0700 Subject: igb: reduce CPU0 latency when updating statistics This change is based off of the work and suggestion of Jan Jablonsky . The Watchdog workqueue in igb driver is scheduled every 2s for each network interface. That includes updating a statistics protected by spinlock. Function igb_update_stats in this case will be protected against preemption. According to number of a statistics registers (cca 60), processing this function might cause additional cpu load on CPU0. In case of statistics spinlock may be replaced with mutex, which reduce latency on CPU0. CC: Bernhard Kaindl CC: Jan Jablonsky Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Tested-by: Aaron Brown Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c index 453ae1d9e5f3..bb4f3f64fbf0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c @@ -2203,9 +2203,9 @@ void igb_down(struct igb_adapter *adapter) del_timer_sync(&adapter->phy_info_timer); /* record the stats before reset*/ - spin_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock); + mutex_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock); igb_update_stats(adapter); - spin_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock); + mutex_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock); adapter->link_speed = 0; adapter->link_duplex = 0; @@ -3840,7 +3840,7 @@ static int igb_sw_init(struct igb_adapter *adapter) adapter->min_frame_size = ETH_ZLEN + ETH_FCS_LEN; spin_lock_init(&adapter->nfc_lock); - spin_lock_init(&adapter->stats64_lock); + mutex_init(&adapter->stats64_lock); #ifdef CONFIG_PCI_IOV switch (hw->mac.type) { case e1000_82576: @@ -5406,9 +5406,9 @@ no_wait: } } - spin_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock); + mutex_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock); igb_update_stats(adapter); - spin_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock); + mutex_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock); for (i = 0; i < adapter->num_tx_queues; i++) { struct igb_ring *tx_ring = adapter->tx_ring[i]; @@ -6235,10 +6235,10 @@ static void igb_get_stats64(struct net_device *netdev, { struct igb_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev); - spin_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock); + mutex_lock(&adapter->stats64_lock); igb_update_stats(adapter); memcpy(stats, &adapter->stats64, sizeof(*stats)); - spin_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock); + mutex_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock); } /** -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b