Re: [GIT PULL rcu/next] rcu commits for 2.6.40

[Yinghai Lu]

On 05/12/2011 02:20 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:42:50AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On 05/12/2011 12:27 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>> On 05/11/2011 11:03 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>>
>>>> * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> e59fb3120becfb36b22ddb8bd27d065d3cdca499 is the first bad commit
>>>>> commit e59fb3120becfb36b22ddb8bd27d065d3cdca499
>>>>> Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Date:   Tue Sep 7 10:38:22 2010 -0700
>>>>>
>>>>>     rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof
>>>>
>>>> Find below an (untested!) attempt at reverting it for debugging purposes: could 
>>>> you please try it, does your system now boot up fine?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> 	Ingo
>>>>
>>>
>>> yes, reverted manually that commit fix the problem.
>>
>> on system with 8 sockets westmere-ex
>>
>> it seems other commits after that commit contribute some delay too.
>>
>> [   32.240739] cpu_dev_init done
>> [   73.587288] memory_dev_init done
> 
> I am testing a revert of e59fb3120becfb36b22ddb8bd27d065d3cdca499 and
> will chase down the delay.
> 

it seems still need to revert following one in addition  e59fb3120becfb36b22ddb8bd27d065d3cdca499.

[root@mpk14-2404-239-158 linux-2.6]# git bisect good
a26ac2455ffcf3be5c6ef92bc6df7182700f2114 is the first bad commit
commit a26ac2455ffcf3be5c6ef92bc6df7182700f2114
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Jan 12 14:10:23 2011 -0800

    rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread
    
    If RCU priority boosting is to be meaningful, callback invocation must
    be boosted in addition to preempted RCU readers.  Otherwise, in presence
    of CPU real-time threads, the grace period ends, but the callbacks don't
    get invoked.  If the callbacks don't get invoked, the associated memory
    doesn't get freed, so the system is still subject to OOM.
    
    But it is not reasonable to priority-boost RCU_SOFTIRQ, so this commit
    moves the callback invocations to a kthread, which can be boosted easily.
    
    Also add comments and properly synchronized all accesses to
    rcu_cpu_kthread_task, as suggested by Lai Jiangshan.
    
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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