Re: [Patch v3 1/3] lib: Restrict cpumask_local_spread to houskeeping CPUs

On 6/24/20 3:26 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:

On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:23:29 -0400 Nitesh Narayan Lal [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

From: Alex Belits <redacted>

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/1582768688-2314-1-git-send-email-zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com/ (local)

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

Sure, I will take a look.
Thanks

-- 
Nitesh