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High latencies can be observed caused by a daemon periodically reading CPUID on all cpus. On KASAN enabled kernels ~10ms latencies can be observed. Even without KASAN, sending an IPI to a CPU, which is in a deep sleep state or in a long hard IRQ disabled section, waiting for the answer can consume hundreds of microseconds. cpuid_read() is invoked in preemptible context, so it can be converted to sleep instead of busy wait. Switching to smp_call_function_single_async() and a completion allows to reschedule and reduces CPU usage and latencies. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180323215818.127774-2-edumazet@google.com
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.