igb: reduce CPU0 latency when updating statistics
This change is based off of the work and suggestion of Jan Jablonsky <jan.jablonsky@thalesgroup.com>. The Watchdog workqueue in igb driver is scheduled every 2s for each network interface. That includes updating a statistics protected by spinlock. Function igb_update_stats in this case will be protected against preemption. According to number of a statistics registers (cca 60), processing this function might cause additional cpu load on CPU0. In case of statistics spinlock may be replaced with mutex, which reduce latency on CPU0. CC: Bernhard Kaindl <bernhard.kaindl@thalesgroup.com> CC: Jan Jablonsky <jan.jablonsky@thalesgroup.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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