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Commit ab5cdc31 authored by Leon Romanovsky's avatar Leon Romanovsky Committed by Doug Ledford
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IB/mlx5: Postpone remove_keys under knowledge of coming preemption



The remove_keys() logic is performed as garbage collection task. Such
task is intended to be run when no other active processes are running.

The need_resched() will return TRUE if there are user tasks to be
activated in near future.

In such case, we don't execute remove_keys() and postpone
the garbage collection work to try to run in next cycle,
in order to free CPU resources to other tasks.

The possible pseudo-code to trigger such scenario:
1. Allocate a lot of MR to fill the cache above the limit.
2. Wait a small amount of time "to calm" the system.
3. Start CPU extensive operations on multi-node cluster.
4. Expect performance degradation during MR cache shrink operation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLeon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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