Re: [PATCH v2] rcu: Speed up calling of RCU tasks callbacks

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 05:43:24PM -0700, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> RCU tasks callbacks can take atleast 1 second before the callbacks are
> executed. This happens even if the hold-out tasks enter their quiescent states
> quickly. I noticed this when I was testing trampoline callback execution.
> 
> To test the trampoline freeing, I wrote a simple script:
> cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
> echo '__schedule_bug:traceon' > set_ftrace_filter;
> echo '!__schedule_bug:traceon' > set_ftrace_filter;
> 
> In the background I had simple bash while loop:
> while [ 1 ]; do x=1; done &
> 
> Total time of completion of above commands in seconds:
> 
> With this patch:
> real    0m0.179s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.054s
> 
> Without this patch:
> real    0m1.098s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.053s
> 
> That's a great than 6X speed up in performance. In order to accomplish
> this, I am waiting for HZ/10 time before entering the hold-out checking
> loop. The loop still preserves its checking of held tasks every 1 second
> as before, incase this first test doesn't succeed.
> 
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Seems straightforward enough.  The commit log needs a bit of cleanup
("atleast", "great than", ...).

Steve, thoughts?  Any reason why this would be a problem?

							Thanx, Paul

> Cc: Peter Zilstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: byungchul.park@xxxxxxx
> Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes since v1->v2:
>  - Changed total wait time to HZ/10 instead of 2 jiffies
>  - Updated the commands to reproduce issue
> 
>  kernel/rcu/update.c | 12 +++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/update.c b/kernel/rcu/update.c
> index 5783bdf86e5a..a28698e44b08 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/update.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c
> @@ -743,6 +743,12 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)
>  		 */
>  		synchronize_srcu(&tasks_rcu_exit_srcu);
> 
> +		/*
> +		 * Wait a little bit incase held tasks are released
> +		 * during their next timer ticks.
> +		 */
> +		schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ/10);
> +
>  		/*
>  		 * Each pass through the following loop scans the list
>  		 * of holdout tasks, removing any that are no longer
> @@ -755,7 +761,6 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)
>  			int rtst;
>  			struct task_struct *t1;
> 
> -			schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ);
>  			rtst = READ_ONCE(rcu_task_stall_timeout);
>  			needreport = rtst > 0 &&
>  				     time_after(jiffies, lastreport + rtst);
> @@ -768,6 +773,11 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)
>  				check_holdout_task(t, needreport, &firstreport);
>  				cond_resched();
>  			}
> +
> +			if (list_empty(&rcu_tasks_holdouts))
> +				break;
> +
> +			schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ);
>  		}
> 
>  		/*
> -- 
> 2.17.0.441.gb46fe60e1d-goog
>