Re: [Xen-devel] xen_evtchn_do_upcall

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 02:51 +0100, David Xu wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> 
> Is anybody know the purpose of this method (xen_evtchn_do_upcall)?

It is the callback used to inject event channels events (i.e. IRQs) into
the guest. You would expect to see it at the base of any stack trace
taken from interrupt context.

>  When I run a user level application involved in TCP receiving and the
> SoftIRQ for eth0 on the same CPU core, everything is OK. But if I run
> them on 2 different cores, there will be xen_evtchn_do_upcall()
> existing (maybe when the local_bh_disable() or local_bh_enable() is
> called)

it would not be unusual to get an interrupt immediately after
re-enabling interrupts.

>  in __inet_lookup_established() routine which costs longer time than
> the first scenario. Is it due to the synchronization issue between
> process context and softirq context? Thanks for any reply. 
> 
> 
>  1)               |    __inet_lookup_established() {
>  1)               |    xen_evtchn_do_upcall() {
>  1)   0.054 us    |      exit_idle();
>  1)               |      irq_enter() {
>  1)               |        rcu_irq_enter() {
>  1)   0.102 us    |          rcu_exit_nohz();
>  1)   0.431 us    |        }
>  1)   0.064 us    |        idle_cpu();
>  1)   1.152 us    |      }
>  1)               |      __xen_evtchn_do_upcall() {
>  1)   0.119 us    |        irq_to_desc();
>  1)               |        handle_edge_irq() {
>  1)   0.107 us    |          _raw_spin_lock();
>  1)               |          ack_dynirq() {
>  1)               |            evtchn_from_irq() {
>  1)               |              info_for_irq() {
>  1)               |                irq_get_irq_data() {
>  1)   0.052 us    |                  irq_to_desc();
>  1)   0.418 us    |                }
>  1)   0.782 us    |              }
>  1)   1.135 us    |            }
>  1)   0.049 us    |            irq_move_irq();
>  1)   1.800 us    |          }
>  1)               |          handle_irq_event() {
>  1)   0.161 us    |            _raw_spin_unlock();
>  1)               |            handle_irq_event_percpu() {
>  1)               |              xennet_interrupt() {
>  1)   0.125 us    |                _raw_spin_lock_irqsave();
>  1)               |                xennet_tx_buf_gc() {
>  1)   0.079 us    |                  gnttab_query_foreign_access();
>  1)   0.050 us    |                  gnttab_end_foreign_access_ref();
>  1)   0.069 us    |                  gnttab_release_grant_reference();
>  1)               |                  dev_kfree_skb_irq() {
>  1)   0.055 us    |                    raise_softirq_irqoff();
>  1)   0.472 us    |                  }
>  1)   0.049 us    |                  gnttab_query_foreign_access();
>  1)   0.058 us    |                  gnttab_end_foreign_access_ref();
>  1)   0.058 us    |                  gnttab_release_grant_reference();
>  1)               |                  dev_kfree_skb_irq() {
>  1)   0.050 us    |                    raise_softirq_irqoff();
>  1)   0.456 us    |                  }
>  1)   3.714 us    |                }
>  1)   0.102 us    |                _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore();
>  1)   4.857 us    |              }
>  1)   0.061 us    |              note_interrupt();
>  1)   5.571 us    |            }
>  1)   0.054 us    |            _raw_spin_lock();
>  1)   6.707 us    |          }
>  1)   0.083 us    |          _raw_spin_unlock();
>  1) + 10.083 us   |        }
>  1) + 10.985 us   |      }
>  1)               |      irq_exit() {
>  1)               |        rcu_irq_exit() {
>  1)   0.087 us    |          rcu_enter_nohz();
>  1)   0.429 us    |        }
>  1)   0.049 us    |        idle_cpu();
>  1)   1.088 us    |      }
>  1) + 14.551 us   |    }
>  1)   0.191 us    |    } /* __inet_lookup_established */



_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel