s390/cio: More efficient handling of CHPID availability events

The CIO layer processes hardware events that indicate that a channel
path has become available by performing a scan of available subchannels
using the Store Subchannel (STSCH) instruction. Performing too many
STSCH instructions in a tight loop can cause high Hypervisor overhead
which can negatively impact the performance of the virtual machine as
a whole.

This patch reduces the number of STSCH instructions performed while
processing a resource accessibility event and while varying a CHPID
online.

In both cases, Linux first performs a STSCH instruction on each unused
subchannel to see if the subchannel has become available. If the STSCH
instruction indicates that the subchannel is available, a full
evaluation of this subchannel is scheduled. Since the full evaluation
includes performing a STSCH instruction, the initial STSCH is
unnecessary and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

diff --git a/drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c b/drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c
index 13299f902676e647d43dce13d95f864c81300f53..eee70cb8730bf381fe4da4373a7fc65b98361fba 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c
@@ -237,26 +237,6 @@ void chsc_chp_offline(struct chp_id chpid)
        for_each_subchannel_staged(s390_subchannel_remove_chpid, NULL, &link);
 }
 
-static int s390_process_res_acc_new_sch(struct subchannel_id schid, void *data)
-{
-       struct schib schib;
-       /*
-        * We don't know the device yet, but since a path
-        * may be available now to the device we'll have
-        * to do recognition again.
-        * Since we don't have any idea about which chpid
-        * that beast may be on we'll have to do a stsch
-        * on all devices, grr...
-        */
-       if (stsch_err(schid, &schib))
-               /* We're through */
-               return -ENXIO;
-
-       /* Put it on the slow path. */
-       css_schedule_eval(schid);
-       return 0;
-}
-
 static int __s390_process_res_acc(struct subchannel *sch, void *data)
 {
        spin_lock_irq(sch->lock);
@@ -287,8 +267,8 @@ static void s390_process_res_acc(struct chp_link *link)
         * The more information we have (info), the less scanning
         * will we have to do.
         */
-       for_each_subchannel_staged(__s390_process_res_acc,
-                                  s390_process_res_acc_new_sch, link);
+       for_each_subchannel_staged(__s390_process_res_acc, NULL, link);
+       css_schedule_reprobe();
 }
 
 static int
@@ -663,19 +643,6 @@ static int s390_subchannel_vary_chpid_on(struct subchannel *sch, void *data)
        return 0;
 }
 
-static int
-__s390_vary_chpid_on(struct subchannel_id schid, void *data)
-{
-       struct schib schib;
-
-       if (stsch_err(schid, &schib))
-               /* We're through */
-               return -ENXIO;
-       /* Put it on the slow path. */
-       css_schedule_eval(schid);
-       return 0;
-}
-
 /**
  * chsc_chp_vary - propagate channel-path vary operation to subchannels
  * @chpid: channl-path ID
@@ -694,7 +661,8 @@ int chsc_chp_vary(struct chp_id chpid, int on)
                /* Try to update the channel path description. */
                chp_update_desc(chp);
                for_each_subchannel_staged(s390_subchannel_vary_chpid_on,
-                                          __s390_vary_chpid_on, &chpid);
+                                          NULL, &chpid);
+               css_schedule_reprobe();
        } else
                for_each_subchannel_staged(s390_subchannel_vary_chpid_off,
                                           NULL, &chpid);