add_interrupt_randomess always wakes up
code blocking on /dev/random. This wake up is done
unconditionally. Unfortunately this means all interrupts
take the wait queue spinlock, which can be rather expensive
on large systems processing lots of interrupts.
We saw 1% cpu time spinning on this on a large macro workload
running on a large system.
I believe it's a recent regression (?)
Always check if there is a waiter on the wait queue
before waking up. This check can be done without
taking a spinlock.
1.06% 10460 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
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---native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
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--0.57%--_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
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--0.56%--__wake_up_common_lock
credit_entropy_bits
add_interrupt_randomness
handle_irq_event_percpu
handle_irq_event
handle_edge_irq
handle_irq
do_IRQ
common_interrupt
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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