On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:23:29 -0400 Nitesh Narayan Lal <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Alex Belits <[email protected]>
> 
> The current implementation of cpumask_local_spread() does not respect the
> isolated CPUs, i.e., even if a CPU has been isolated for Real-Time task,
> it will return it to the caller for pinning of its IRQ threads. Having
> these unwanted IRQ threads on an isolated CPU adds up to a latency
> overhead.
> 
> Restrict the CPUs that are returned for spreading IRQs only to the
> available housekeeping CPUs.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/lib/cpumask.c
> +++ b/lib/cpumask.c
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
>  #include <linux/export.h>
>  #include <linux/memblock.h>
>  #include <linux/numa.h>
> +#include <linux/sched/isolation.h>
>  
>  /**
>   * cpumask_next - get the next cpu in a cpumask
> @@ -205,22 +206,27 @@ void __init free_bootmem_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t mask)
>   */
>  unsigned int cpumask_local_spread(unsigned int i, int node)
>  {
> -     int cpu;
> +     int cpu, hk_flags;
> +     const struct cpumask *mask;
>  
> +     hk_flags = HK_FLAG_DOMAIN | HK_FLAG_WQ;
> +     mask = housekeeping_cpumask(hk_flags);
>       /* Wrap: we always want a cpu. */
> -     i %= num_online_cpus();
> +     i %= cpumask_weight(mask);
>  
>       if (node == NUMA_NO_NODE) {
> -             for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_online_mask)
> +             for_each_cpu(cpu, mask) {
>                       if (i-- == 0)
>                               return cpu;
> +             }
>       } else {
>               /* NUMA first. */
> -             for_each_cpu_and(cpu, cpumask_of_node(node), cpu_online_mask)
> +             for_each_cpu_and(cpu, cpumask_of_node(node), mask) {
>                       if (i-- == 0)
>                               return cpu;
> +             }
>  
> -             for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_online_mask) {
> +             for_each_cpu(cpu, mask) {
>                       /* Skip NUMA nodes, done above. */
>                       if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpumask_of_node(node)))
>                               continue;

Are you aware of these changes to cpu_local_spread()?
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

I don't see a lot of overlap but it would be nice for you folks to
check each other's homework ;)


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