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net/mlx5: Use multi threaded workqueue for page fault handling

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Page fault events are processed in a workqueue context. Since each QP
can have up to two concurrent unrelated page-faults, one for requester
and one for responder, page-fault handling can be done in parallel.
Achieve this by changing the workqueue to be multi-threaded.
The number of threads is the same as the number of command interface
channels to avoid command interface bottlenecks.

In addition to multi-threads, change the workqueue flags to give it high
priority.

Stress benchmark shows that before this change 85% of page faults were
waiting in queue 8 seconds or more while after the change 98% of page
faults were waiting in queue 64 milliseconds or less. The number of threads
was chosen as the number of channels to the command interface.

Fixes: d9aaed8387 ("{net,IB}/mlx5: Refactor page fault handling")
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
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Moni Shoua 2018-11-08 21:10:14 +02:00 committed by Leon Romanovsky
parent ef90c5e975
commit 90290db766
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c
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@ -356,8 +356,9 @@ static int init_pf_ctx(struct mlx5_eq_pagefault *pf_ctx, const char *name)
spin_lock_init(&pf_ctx->lock);
INIT_WORK(&pf_ctx->work, eq_pf_action);
pf_ctx->wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue(name,
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM);
pf_ctx->wq = alloc_workqueue(name,
WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM,
MLX5_NUM_CMD_EQE);
if (!pf_ctx->wq)
return -ENOMEM;