Re: [PATCH v7 2/6] rcu/segcblist: Add counters to segcblist datastructure
From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Thu Oct 15 2020 - 08:22:03 EST
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 08:22:57PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> Add counting of segment lengths of segmented callback list.
>
> This will be useful for a number of things such as knowing how big the
> ready-to-execute segment have gotten. The immediate benefit is ability
> to trace how the callbacks in the segmented callback list change.
>
> Also this patch remove hacks related to using donecbs's ->len field as a
> temporary variable to save the segmented callback list's length. This cannot be
> done anymore and is not needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/rcu_segcblist.h | 2 +
> kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c | 133 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.h | 2 -
> 3 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/rcu_segcblist.h b/include/linux/rcu_segcblist.h
> index b36afe7b22c9..d462ae5e340a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rcu_segcblist.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rcu_segcblist.h
> @@ -69,8 +69,10 @@ struct rcu_segcblist {
> unsigned long gp_seq[RCU_CBLIST_NSEGS];
> #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU
> atomic_long_t len;
> + atomic_long_t seglen[RCU_CBLIST_NSEGS];
Also does it really need to be atomic?
> @@ -245,7 +280,7 @@ void rcu_segcblist_enqueue(struct rcu_segcblist *rsclp,
> struct rcu_head *rhp)
> {
> rcu_segcblist_inc_len(rsclp);
> - smp_mb(); /* Ensure counts are updated before callback is enqueued. */
That's a significant change that shouldn't be hidden and unexplained in an unrelated
patch or it may be easily missed. I'd suggest to move this line together in
"rcu/tree: Remove redundant smp_mb() in rcu_do_batch" (with the title updated perhaps)
and maybe put it in the beginning of the series?
> + rcu_segcblist_inc_seglen(rsclp, RCU_NEXT_TAIL);
> rhp->next = NULL;
> WRITE_ONCE(*rsclp->tails[RCU_NEXT_TAIL], rhp);
> WRITE_ONCE(rsclp->tails[RCU_NEXT_TAIL], &rhp->next);
[...]
> @@ -330,11 +353,16 @@ void rcu_segcblist_extract_pend_cbs(struct rcu_segcblist *rsclp,
>
> if (!rcu_segcblist_pend_cbs(rsclp))
> return; /* Nothing to do. */
> + rclp->len = rcu_segcblist_get_seglen(rsclp, RCU_WAIT_TAIL) +
> + rcu_segcblist_get_seglen(rsclp, RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL) +
> + rcu_segcblist_get_seglen(rsclp, RCU_NEXT_TAIL);
> *rclp->tail = *rsclp->tails[RCU_DONE_TAIL];
> rclp->tail = rsclp->tails[RCU_NEXT_TAIL];
> WRITE_ONCE(*rsclp->tails[RCU_DONE_TAIL], NULL);
> - for (i = RCU_DONE_TAIL + 1; i < RCU_CBLIST_NSEGS; i++)
> + for (i = RCU_DONE_TAIL + 1; i < RCU_CBLIST_NSEGS; i++) {
> WRITE_ONCE(rsclp->tails[i], rsclp->tails[RCU_DONE_TAIL]);
> + rcu_segcblist_set_seglen(rsclp, i, 0);
> + }
So, that's probably just a matter of personal preference, so feel free to
ignore but I'd rather do:
rclp->len += rcu_segcblist_get_seglen(rsclp, i);
rcu_segcblist_set_seglen(rsclp, i, 0);
instead of the big addition above. That way, if a new index ever gets added/renamed
to the segcblist, we'll take it into account. Also that spares a few lines.
Thanks.