[tip: locking/core] lib/smp_processor_id: Don't use cpumask_equal()

From: tip-bot2 for Waiman Long
Date: Wed Oct 09 2019 - 08:59:53 EST


The following commit has been merged into the locking/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID: e950cca3f3c40902a052a78a36b3fac1f8a62d19
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/e950cca3f3c40902a052a78a36b3fac1f8a62d19
Author: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:36:08 -04:00
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:46:10 +02:00

lib/smp_processor_id: Don't use cpumask_equal()

The check_preemption_disabled() function uses cpumask_equal() to see
if the task is bounded to the current CPU only. cpumask_equal() calls
memcmp() to do the comparison. As x86 doesn't have __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCMP,
the slow memcmp() function in lib/string.c is used.

On a RT kernel that call check_preemption_disabled() very frequently,
below is the perf-record output of a certain microbenchmark:

42.75% 2.45% testpmd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] check_preemption_disabled
40.01% 39.97% testpmd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memcmp

We should avoid calling memcmp() in performance critical path. So the
cpumask_equal() call is now replaced with an equivalent simpler check.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191003203608.21881-1-longman@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/smp_processor_id.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/smp_processor_id.c b/lib/smp_processor_id.c
index 60ba93f..bd95716 100644
--- a/lib/smp_processor_id.c
+++ b/lib/smp_processor_id.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ unsigned int check_preemption_disabled(const char *what1, const char *what2)
* Kernel threads bound to a single CPU can safely use
* smp_processor_id():
*/
- if (cpumask_equal(current->cpus_ptr, cpumask_of(this_cpu)))
+ if (current->nr_cpus_allowed == 1)
goto out;

/*