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Neeraj Upadhyay 4f2bfd9494 srcu: Make expedited RCU grace periods block even less frequently 
The purpose of commit 282d8998e9 ("srcu: Prevent expedited GPs
and blocking readers from consuming CPU") was to prevent a long
series of never-blocking expedited SRCU grace periods from blocking
kernel-live-patching (KLP) progress.  Although it was successful, it also
resulted in excessive boot times on certain embedded workloads running
under qemu with the "-bios QEMU_EFI.fd" command line.  Here "excessive"
means increasing the boot time up into the three-to-four minute range.
This increase in boot time was due to the more than 6000 back-to-back
invocations of synchronize_rcu_expedited() within the KVM host OS, which
in turn resulted from qemu's emulation of a long series of MMIO accesses.

Commit 640a7d37c3f4 ("srcu: Block less aggressively for expedited grace
periods") did not significantly help this particular use case.

Zhangfei Gao and Shameerali Kolothum Thodi did experiments varying the
value of SRCU_MAX_NODELAY_PHASE with HZ=250 and with various values
of non-sleeping per phase counts on a system with preemption enabled,
and observed the following boot times:

+──────────────────────────+────────────────+
| SRCU_MAX_NODELAY_PHASE   | Boot time (s)  |
+──────────────────────────+────────────────+
| 100                      | 30.053         |
| 150                      | 25.151         |
| 200                      | 20.704         |
| 250                      | 15.748         |
| 500                      | 11.401         |
| 1000                     | 11.443         |
| 10000                    | 11.258         |
| 1000000                  | 11.154         |
+──────────────────────────+────────────────+

Analysis on the experiment results show additional improvements with
CPU-bound delays approaching one jiffy in duration. This improvement was
also seen when number of per-phase iterations were scaled to one jiffy.

This commit therefore scales per-grace-period phase number of non-sleeping
polls so that non-sleeping polls extend for about one jiffy. In addition,
the delay-calculation call to srcu_get_delay() in srcu_gp_end() is
replaced with a simple check for an expedited grace period.  This change
schedules callback invocation immediately after expedited grace periods
complete, which results in greatly improved boot times.  Testing done
by Marc and Zhangfei confirms that this change recovers most of the
performance degradation in boottime; for CONFIG_HZ_250 configuration,
specifically, boot times improve from 3m50s to 41s on Marc's setup;
and from 2m40s to ~9.7s on Zhangfei's setup.

In addition to the changes to default per phase delays, this
change adds 3 new kernel parameters - srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay,
srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase, and srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay.
This allows users to configure the srcu grace period scanning delays in
order to more quickly react to additional use cases.

Fixes: 640a7d37c3f4 ("srcu: Block less aggressively for expedited grace periods")
Fixes: 282d8998e9 ("srcu: Prevent expedited GPs and blocking readers from consuming CPU")
Reported-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
Reported-by: yueluck <yueluck@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20615615-0013-5adc-584f-2b1d5c03ebfc@linaro.org/
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-07-19 11:39:59 -07:00
arch X86 updates: 2022-06-19 09:58:28 -05:00
block block/bfq: Enable I/O statistics 2022-06-16 16:59:28 -06:00
certs certs: fix and refactor CONFIG_SYSTEM_BLACKLIST_HASH_LIST build 2022-06-15 21:52:32 +03:00
crypto crypto: memneq - move into lib/ 2022-06-12 14:51:51 +08:00
Documentation srcu: Make expedited RCU grace periods block even less frequently 2022-07-19 11:39:59 -07:00
drivers A set of interrupt subsystem updates: 2022-06-19 09:45:16 -05:00
fs Fixes for 5.19-rc3: 2022-06-19 09:24:49 -05:00
include Build tool updates: 2022-06-19 09:54:16 -05:00
init gcc-12: disable '-Warray-bounds' universally for now 2022-06-09 10:11:12 -07:00
ipc These changes update the ipc sysctls so that they are fundamentally 2022-06-03 15:54:57 -07:00
kernel srcu: Make expedited RCU grace periods block even less frequently 2022-07-19 11:39:59 -07:00
lib Build tool updates: 2022-06-19 09:54:16 -05:00
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mm Merge tag 'fs_for_v5.19-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2022-06-17 10:09:24 -07:00
net NFS Client Fixes for Linux 5.19-rc 2022-06-17 15:17:57 -05:00
samples drm for 5.19-rc1 2022-05-25 16:18:27 -07:00
scripts Build tool updates: 2022-06-19 09:54:16 -05:00
security selinux: free contexts previously transferred in selinux_add_opt() 2022-06-15 21:20:45 -04:00
sound sound fixes for 5.19-rc2 2022-06-10 10:20:57 -07:00
tools Build tool updates: 2022-06-19 09:54:16 -05:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: x86: disable preemption around the call to kvm_arch_vcpu_{un|}blocking 2022-06-09 10:52:20 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Fix space after for_each macros 2022-05-20 19:27:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap Hot fixes for 5.19-rc1. 2022-06-05 17:05:38 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS rectifications and a few minor driver fixes 2022-06-19 09:35:09 -05:00
Makefile Linux 5.19-rc3 2022-06-19 15:06:47 -05:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.