IB/mlx5: Postpone remove_keys under knowledge of coming preemption

Leon Romanovsky · dledford · commit ab5cdc31630c · 2015-12-08T16:55:31.000-05:00
The remove_keys() logic is performed as garbage collection task. Such
task is intended to be run when no other active processes are running.

The need_resched() will return TRUE if there are user tasks to be
activated in near future.

In such case, we don't execute remove_keys() and postpone
the garbage collection work to try to run in next cycle,
in order to free CPU resources to other tasks.

The possible pseudo-code to trigger such scenario:
1. Allocate a lot of MR to fill the cache above the limit.
2. Wait a small amount of time "to calm" the system.
3. Start CPU extensive operations on multi-node cluster.
4. Expect performance degradation during MR cache shrink operation.

Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen &lt;eli@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
@@ -381,7 +381,19 @@ static void __cache_work_func(struct mlx5_cache_ent *ent)
 			}
 		}
 	} else if (ent->cur > 2 * ent->limit) {
-		if (!someone_adding(cache) &&
+		/*
+		 * The remove_keys() logic is performed as garbage collection
+		 * task. Such task is intended to be run when no other active
+		 * processes are running.
+		 *
+		 * The need_resched() will return TRUE if there are user tasks
+		 * to be activated in near future.
+		 *
+		 * In such case, we don't execute remove_keys() and postpone
+		 * the garbage collection work to try to run in next cycle,
+		 * in order to free CPU resources to other tasks.
+		 */
+		if (!need_resched() && !someone_adding(cache) &&
 		    time_after(jiffies, cache->last_add + 300 * HZ)) {
 			remove_keys(dev, i, 1);
 			if (ent->cur > ent->limit)
