Re: [PATCH V3] arm64: psci: Reduce waiting time for cpu_psci_cpu_kill()

[Yunfeng Ye]

On 2019/10/18 19:41, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 07:24:14PM +0800, Yunfeng Ye wrote:
>> In a case like suspend-to-disk, a large number of CPU cores need to be
>> shut down. At present, the CPU hotplug operation is serialised, and the
>> CPU cores can only be shut down one by one. In this process, if PSCI
>> affinity_info() does not return LEVEL_OFF quickly, cpu_psci_cpu_kill()
>> needs to wait for 10ms. If hundreds of CPU cores need to be shut down,
>> it will take a long time.
> 
> Do we have an idea of roughly how long a CPU _usually_ takes to
> transition state?
> 
> i.e. are we _just_ missing the transition the first time we call
> AFFINITY_INFO?
> 
we have test that in most case is less than 1ms, 50us-500us. the time not
only include hardware state transition, but also include flush caches in BIOS.
and flush caches operation is time-consuming.

>> Normally, it is no need to wait 10ms in cpu_psci_cpu_kill(). So change
>> the wait interval from 10 ms to max 1 ms and use usleep_range() instead
>> of msleep() for more accurate schedule.
>>
>> In addition, reduce the time interval will increase the messages output,
>> so remove the "Retry ..." message, instead, put the number of waiting
>> times to the sucessful message.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v2 -> v3:
>>  - update the comment
>>  - remove the busy-wait logic, modify the loop logic and output message
>>
>> v1 -> v2:
>>  - use usleep_range() instead of udelay() after waiting for a while
>>
>>  arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c | 7 +++----
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c
>> index c9f72b2665f1..00b8c0825a08 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c
>> @@ -91,15 +91,14 @@ static int cpu_psci_cpu_kill(unsigned int cpu)
>>  	 * while it is dying. So, try again a few times.
>>  	 */
>>
>> -	for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
>> +	for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
>>  		err = psci_ops.affinity_info(cpu_logical_map(cpu), 0);
>>  		if (err == PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_OFF) {
>> -			pr_info("CPU%d killed.\n", cpu);
>> +			pr_info("CPU%d killed by waiting %d loops.\n", cpu, i);
> 
> Could we please make that:
> 
> 			pr_info("CPU%d killed (polled %d times)\n", cpu, i + 1);
> 
ok, thanks.
> 
> 
>>  			return 0;
>>  		}
>>
>> -		msleep(10);
>> -		pr_info("Retrying again to check for CPU kill\n");
>> +		usleep_range(100, 1000);
> 
> Hmm, so now we'll wait somewhere between 10ms and 100ms before giving up
> on a CPU depending on how long we actually sleep for each iteration of
> the loop. That should be called out in the commit message.
> 
> That could matter for kdump when you have a large number of CPUs, as in
> the worst case for 256 CPUs we've gone from ~2.6s to ~26s. But tbh in
> that case I'm not sure I care that much...
> 
> In the majority of cases I'd hope AFFINITY_INFO would return OFF after
> an iteration or two.
> 
Normally it will no need so much time.

> Thanks,
> Mark.
> 
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