[PATCH v6] powerpc/pseries/vas: Use usleep_range() to support HCALL delay
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jun 20 22:49:11 AEST 2024
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:59:10 -0800, Haren Myneni wrote:
> VAS allocate, modify and deallocate HCALLs returns
> H_LONG_BUSY_ORDER_1_MSEC or H_LONG_BUSY_ORDER_10_MSEC for busy
> delay and expects OS to reissue HCALL after that delay. But using
> msleep() will often sleep at least 20 msecs even though the
> hypervisor suggests OS reissue these HCALLs after 1 or 10msecs.
>
> The open and close VAS window functions hold mutex and then issue
> these HCALLs. So these operations can take longer than the
> necessary when multiple threads issue open or close window APIs
> simultaneously, especially might affect the performance in the
> case of repeat open/close APIs for each compression request.
>
> [...]
Applied to powerpc/next.
[1/1] powerpc/pseries/vas: Use usleep_range() to support HCALL delay
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/43ac9f5cd457bb01930f87448ddaaae455f8a8cf
cheers
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