Kunkun Jiang reports that for a workload involving the simultaneous startup
of a large number of VMs (for a total of about 200 vcpus), a lot of CPU
time gets spent on spinning on the tmp_mask_lock that exists as a static
raw spinlock in irq_do_set_affinity(). This lock protects a global cpumask
(tmp_mask) that is used as a temporary variable to compute the resulting
affinity.
While this is triggered by KVM issuing a irq_set_affinity() call each time
a vcpu is about to execute, it is obvious that having a single global
resource is not very scalable.
Since a cpumask can be a fairly large structure on systems with a high core
count, a stack allocation is not really appropriate. Instead, turn the
global cpumask into a per-CPU variable, removing the need for locking
altogether as the code is executed with preemption and interrupts disabled.
[ tglx: Moved the per CPU variable declaration outside of the function ]
Reported-by: Kunkun Jiang <jiangkunkun@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Kunkun Jiang <jiangkunkun@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240826080618.3886694-1-maz@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a7fc58e4-64c2-77fc-c1dc-f5eb78dbbb01@huawei.com
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