From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@windriver.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: PCI, isolcpus, and irq affinity
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:07:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201012190726.GB1032142@dhcp-10-100-145-180.wdl.wdc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df1be4be-88b5-b848-97bf-4c38824e840a@windriver.com>
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 12:58:41PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> On 10/12/2020 11:50 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12 2020 at 11:58, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 09:49:37AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> > > > I've got a linux system running the RT kernel with threaded irqs. On
> > > > startup we affine the various irq threads to the housekeeping CPUs, but I
> > > > recently hit a scenario where after some days of uptime we ended up with a
> > > > number of NVME irq threads affined to application cores instead (not good
> > > > when we're trying to run low-latency applications).
> >
> > These threads and the associated interupt vectors are completely
> > harmless and fully idle as long as there is nothing on those isolated
> > CPUs which does disk I/O.
>
> Some of the irq threads are affined (by the kernel presumably) to multiple
> CPUs (nvme1q2 and nvme0q2 were both affined 0x38000038, a couple of other
> queues were affined 0x1c00001c0).
That means you have more CPUs than your controller has queues. When that
happens, some sharing of the queue resources among CPUs is required.
> In this case could disk I/O submitted by one of those CPUs end up
> interrupting another one?
If you dispatch IO from any CPU in the mask, then the completion side
wakes the thread to run on one of the CPUs in the affinity mask.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-12 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-12 15:49 PCI, isolcpus, and irq affinity Chris Friesen
2020-10-12 16:58 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-10-12 17:39 ` Sean V Kelley
2020-10-12 19:18 ` Chris Friesen
2020-10-12 17:42 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2020-10-12 17:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-12 18:58 ` Chris Friesen
2020-10-12 19:07 ` Keith Busch [this message]
2020-10-12 19:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-15 18:47 ` Chris Friesen
2020-10-15 19:02 ` Keith Busch
2020-10-12 19:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-12 20:24 ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-12 22:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
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