Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] rcuscale: Add test for using call_rcu_lazy() to emulate kfree_rcu()

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 05:15:23PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/12/2022 4:58 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 04:27:05PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> >> Ah, with all the threads, I missed this one :(. Sorry about that.
> > 
> > I know that feeling...
> > 
> >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 7:06 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Currently I added a test like the following which adds a new torture type, my
> >>>> thought was to stress the new code to make sure nothing crashed or hung the
> >>>> kernel. That is working well except I don't exactly understand the total-gps
> >>>> print showing 0, which the other print shows 1188 GPs. I'll go dig into that
> >>>> tomorrow.. thanks!
> >>>>
> >>>> The print shows
> >>>> TREE11 ------- 1474 GPs (12.2833/s) [rcu_lazy: g0 f0x0 total-gps=0]
> >>>> TREE11 no success message, 7 successful version messages
> >>>
> >>> Nice!!!  It is very good to see you correctly using the rcu_torture_ops
> >>> facility correctly!
> >>>
> >>> And this could be good for your own testing, and I am happy to pull it
> >>> in for that purpose (given it being fixed, having a good commit log,
> >>> and so on).  After all, TREE10 is quite similar -- not part of CFLIST,
> >>> but useful for certain types of focused testing.
> >>>
> >>> However, it would be very good to get call_rcu_lazy() testing going
> >>> more generally, and in particular in TREE01 where offloading changes
> >>> dynamically.  A good way to do this is to add a .call_lazy() component
> >>> to the rcu_torture_ops structure, and check for it in a manner similar
> >>> to that done for the .deferred_free() component.  Including adding a
> >>> gp_normal_lazy module parameter.  This would allow habitual testing
> >>> on a few scenarios and focused lazy testing on all of them via the
> >>> --bootargs parameter.
> >>
> >> Ok, if you don't mind I will make this particular enhancement to the
> >> torture test in a future patchset, since I kind of decided on doing v3
> >> with just fixes to what I have and more testing. Certainly happy to
> >> enhance these tests in a future version.
> > 
> > No need to gate v3 on those tests.
> > 
> >>> On the total-gps=0, the usual suspicion would be that the lazy callbacks
> >>> never got invoked.  It looks like you were doing about a two-minute run,
> >>> so maybe a longer run?  Though weren't they supposed to kick in at 15
> >>> seconds or so?  Or did this value of zero come about because this run
> >>> used exactly 300 grace periods?
> >>
> >> It was zero because it required the RCU_FLAVOR torture type, where as
> >> my torture type was lazy. Adding RCU_LAZY_FLAVOR to the list fixed it
> >> :)
> > 
> > Heh!  Then it didn't actually do any testing.  Done that as well!
> 
> Sorry to not be clear, I meant the switch-case list below, not the
> torture list in rcutorture.c! It was in the rcutorture.c so was being
> tested, just reporting zero gp_seq as I pointed.
> 
> /*
>  * Send along grace-period-related data for rcutorture diagnostics.
>  */
> void rcutorture_get_gp_data(enum rcutorture_type test_type, int *flags,
>                             unsigned long *gp_seq)
> {
>         switch (test_type) {
>         case RCU_FLAVOR:
>         case RCU_LAZY_FLAVOR:
>                 *flags = READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_flags);
>                 *gp_seq = rcu_seq_current(&rcu_state.gp_seq);
>                 break;
>         default:
>                 break;
>         }
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcutorture_get_gp_data);

Ah, that would do it!  Thank you for the clarification.

							Thanx, Paul