Commit 3c5c7f92 authored by Stefan Wahren's avatar Stefan Wahren Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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hwrng: bcm2835 - Fix hwrng throughput regression

[ Upstream commit b58a3600 ]

The last RCU stall fix caused a massive throughput regression of the
hwrng on Raspberry Pi 0 - 3. hwrng_msleep doesn't sleep precisely enough
and usleep_range doesn't allow scheduling. So try to restore the
best possible throughput by introducing hwrng_yield which interruptable
sleeps for one jiffy.

Some performance measurements on Raspberry Pi 3B+ (arm64/defconfig):

sudo dd if=/dev/hwrng of=/dev/null count=1 bs=10000

cpu_relax              ~138025 Bytes / sec
hwrng_msleep(1000)         ~13 Bytes / sec
hwrng_yield              ~2510 Bytes / sec

Fixes: 96cb9d05 ("hwrng: bcm2835 - use hwrng_msleep() instead of cpu_relax()")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/bc97ece5-44a3-4c4e-77da-2db3eb66b128@gmx.net/


Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent 0c824b77
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