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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2018-09-09 15:39:15 +1000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-09-10 18:04:31 +0200
commit68b2fc714fb1e08385f9c810d84f06affd007350 (patch)
tree61d2636d83fc8bd408e739bfc27fca47b30b6348 /drivers/virt
parent6e7f6b82c60afb46ff71c2127421c66207966d6d (diff)
downloadlinux-68b2fc714fb1e08385f9c810d84f06affd007350.tar.bz2
tty: hvc: hvc_poll() fix read loop batching
Commit ec97eaad1383 ("tty: hvc: hvc_poll() break hv read loop") removes get_chars batching entirely, which slows down large console operations like paste -- virtio console "feels worse than a 9600 baud serial line," reports Matteo. This adds back batching in a more latency friendly way. If the caller can sleep then we try to fill the entire flip buffer, releasing the lock and scheduling between each iteration. If it can not sleep, then batches are limited to 128 bytes. Matteo confirms this fixes the performance problem. Latency testing the powerpc OPAL console with OpenBMC UART with a large paste shows about 0.25ms latency, which seems reasonable. 10ms latencies were typical for this case before the latency breaking work, so we still see most of the benefit. kopald-1204 0d.h. 5us : hvc_poll <-hvc_handle_interrupt kopald-1204 0d.h. 5us : __hvc_poll <-hvc_handle_interrupt kopald-1204 0d.h. 5us : _raw_spin_lock_irqsave <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 5us : tty_port_tty_get <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 6us : _raw_spin_lock_irqsave <-tty_port_tty_get kopald-1204 0d.h. 6us : _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore <-tty_port_tty_get kopald-1204 0d.h. 6us : tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 7us : __tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 7us+: opal_get_chars <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 36us : tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 36us : __tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 36us+: opal_get_chars <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 65us : tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 65us : __tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 66us+: opal_get_chars <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 94us : tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 95us : __tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 95us+: opal_get_chars <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 124us : tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 124us : __tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 125us+: opal_get_chars <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 154us : tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 154us : __tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 154us+: opal_get_chars <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 183us : tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 184us : __tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 184us+: opal_get_chars <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 213us : tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 213us : __tty_buffer_request_room <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 213us+: opal_get_chars <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 242us : _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 242us : tty_flip_buffer_push <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 243us : queue_work_on <-tty_flip_buffer_push kopald-1204 0d.h. 243us : tty_kref_put <-__hvc_poll kopald-1204 0d.h. 243us : hvc_kick <-hvc_handle_interrupt kopald-1204 0d.h. 243us : wake_up_process <-hvc_kick kopald-1204 0d.h. 244us : try_to_wake_up <-hvc_kick kopald-1204 0d.h. 244us : _raw_spin_lock_irqsave <-try_to_wake_up kopald-1204 0d.h. 244us : _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore <-try_to_wake_up Reported-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com> Tested-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Tested-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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