linux/init
Peter Zijlstra 26b5679e43 relay: Use irq_work instead of plain timer for deferred wakeup
Relay avoids calling wake_up_interruptible() for doing the wakeup of
readers/consumers, waiting for the generation of new data, from the
context of a process which produced the data.  This is apparently done to
prevent the possibility of a deadlock in case Scheduler itself is is
generating data for the relay, after acquiring rq->lock.

The following patch used a timer (to be scheduled at next jiffy), for
delegating the wakeup to another context.
	commit 7c9cb38302
	Author: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@comcast.net>
	Date:   Wed May 9 02:34:01 2007 -0700

	relay: use plain timer instead of delayed work

	relay doesn't need to use schedule_delayed_work() for waking readers
	when a simple timer will do.

Scheduling a plain timer, at next jiffies boundary, to do the wakeup
causes a significant wakeup latency for the Userspace client, which makes
relay less suitable for the high-frequency low-payload use cases where the
data gets generated at a very high rate, like multiple sub buffers getting
filled within a milli second.  Moreover the timer is re-scheduled on every
newly produced sub buffer so the timer keeps getting pushed out if sub
buffers are filled in a very quick succession (less than a jiffy gap
between filling of 2 sub buffers).  As a result relay runs out of sub
buffers to store the new data.

By using irq_work it is ensured that wakeup of userspace client, blocked
in the poll call, is done at earliest (through self IPI or next timer
tick) enabling it to always consume the data in time.  Also this makes
relay consistent with printk & ring buffers (trace), as they too use
irq_work for deferred wake up of readers.

[arnd@arndb.de: select CONFIG_IRQ_WORK]
 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912154035.3222156-1-arnd@arndb.de
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472906487-1559-1-git-send-email-akash.goel@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Akash Goel <akash.goel@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
..
calibrate.c kernel: add calibration_delay_done() 2014-06-16 12:47:39 -06:00
do_mounts_initrd.c init/do_mounts: initrd_load() can be boolean 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
do_mounts_md.c init: disable sparse checking of the mount.o source files 2012-05-31 17:49:27 -07:00
do_mounts_rd.c init, Documentation: Remove ramdisk_blocksize mentions 2015-12-26 05:22:00 -07:00
do_mounts.c init/do_mounts.c: add create_dev() failure log 2015-06-25 17:00:42 -07:00
do_mounts.h init/do_mounts: initrd_load() can be boolean 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
init_task.c sched/core: Allow putting thread_info into task_struct 2016-09-15 08:25:13 +02:00
initramfs.c kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
Kconfig relay: Use irq_work instead of plain timer for deferred wakeup 2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
main.c init: allow blacklisting of module_init functions 2016-08-02 19:35:40 -04:00
Makefile init_task: Replace CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_INIT_TASK 2012-05-05 13:00:46 +02:00
noinitramfs.c init: mark __user address space on string literals 2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
version.c copy address of proc_ns_ops into ns_common 2014-12-04 14:34:47 -05:00