fs/buffer.c: disable per-CPU buffer_head cache for isolated CPUs
For certain types of applications (for example PLC software or RAN processing), upon occurrence of an event, it is necessary to complete a certain task in a maximum amount of time (deadline). One way to express this requirement is with a pair of numbers, deadline time and execution time, where: * deadline time: length of time between event and deadline. * execution time: length of time it takes for processing of event to occur on a particular hardware platform (uninterrupted). The particular values depend on use-case. For the case where the realtime application executes in a virtualized guest, an IPI which must be serviced in the host will cause the following sequence of events: 1) VM-exit 2) execution of IPI (and function call) 3) VM-entry Which causes an excess of 50us latency as observed by cyclictest (this violates the latency requirement of vRAN application with 1ms TTI, for example). invalidate_bh_lrus calls an IPI on each CPU that has non empty per-CPU cache: on_each_cpu_cond(has_bh_in_lru, invalidate_bh_lru, NULL, 1); The performance when using the per-CPU LRU cache is as follows: 42 ns per __find_get_block 68 ns per __find_get_block_slow Given that the main use cases for latency sensitive applications do not involve block I/O (data necessary for program operation is locked in RAM), disable per-CPU buffer_head caches for isolated CPUs. Signed-off-by:Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Message-Id: <ZJtBrybavtb1x45V@tpad> Signed-off-by:
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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