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Andi Kleen committed e8e8a2e47db
random: optimize add_interrupt_randomness add_interrupt_randomess always wakes up code blocking on /dev/random. This wake up is done unconditionally. Unfortunately this means all interrupts take the wait queue spinlock, which can be rather expensive on large systems processing lots of interrupts. We saw 1% cpu time spinning on this on a large macro workload running on a large system. I believe it's a recent regression (?) Always check if there is a waiter on the wait queue before waking up. This check can be done without taking a spinlock. 1.06% 10460 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath | ---native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath | --0.57%--_raw_spin_lock_irqsave | --0.56%--__wake_up_common_lock credit_entropy_bits add_interrupt_randomness handle_irq_event_percpu handle_irq_event handle_edge_irq handle_irq do_IRQ common_interrupt Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>