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rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU

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Commit ac1bea8578 (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states)
fixed a problem where a CPU looping in the kernel with but one runnable
task would give RCU CPU stall warnings, even if the in-kernel loop
contained cond_resched() calls.  Unfortunately, in so doing, it introduced
performance regressions in Anton Blanchard's will-it-scale "open1" test.
The problem appears to be not so much the increased cond_resched() path
length as an increase in the rate at which grace periods complete, which
increased per-update grace-period overhead.

This commit takes a different approach to fixing this bug, mainly by
moving the RCU-visible quiescent state from cond_resched() to
rcu_note_context_switch(), and by further reducing the check to a
simple non-zero test of a single per-CPU variable.  However, this
approach requires that the force-quiescent-state processing send
resched IPIs to the offending CPUs.  These will be sent only once
the grace period has reached an age specified by the boot/sysfs
parameter rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs, or once the grace period
reaches an age halfway to the point at which RCU CPU stall warnings
will be emitted, whichever comes first.

Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Made rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() as suggested by the
  ktest build robot.  Also fixed smp_mb() comment as noted by
  Oleg Nesterov. ]

Merge with e552592e (Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-20 16:49:01 -07:00
parent 546a9d8519
commit 4a81e8328d
7 changed files with 125 additions and 90 deletions
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@@ -350,21 +350,3 @@ static int __init check_cpu_stall_init(void)
early_initcall(check_cpu_stall_init);
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_STALL_COMMON */
/*
* Hooks for cond_resched() and friends to avoid RCU CPU stall warnings.
*/
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, rcu_cond_resched_count);
/*
* Report a set of RCU quiescent states, for use by cond_resched()
* and friends. Out of line due to being called infrequently.
*/
void rcu_resched(void)
{
preempt_disable();
__this_cpu_write(rcu_cond_resched_count, 0);
rcu_note_context_switch(smp_processor_id());
preempt_enable();
}