The RCU grace period mechanism uses a two-phase FQS (Force Quiescent
State) design where the first FQS saves dyntick-idle snapshots and
the second FQS compares them. This results in long and unnecessary latency
for synchronize_rcu() on idle systems (two FQS waits of ~3ms each with
1000HZ) whenever one FQS wait sufficed.
Some investigations showed that the GP kthread's CPU is the holdout CPU
a lot of times after the first FQS as - it cannot be detected as "idle"
because it's actively running the FQS scan in the GP kthread.
Therefore, at the end of rcu_gp_init(), immediately report a quiescent
state for the GP kthread's CPU using rcu_qs() + rcu_report_qs_rdp(). The
GP kthread cannot be in an RCU read-side critical section while running
GP initialization, so this is safe and results in significant latency
improvements.
The following tests were performed:
(1) synchronize_rcu() benchmarking
100 synchronize_rcu() calls with 32 CPUs, 10 runs each (default fqs
jiffies settings):
Baseline (without fix):
| Run | Mean | Min | Max |
|-----|-----------|----------|-----------|
| 1 | 10.088 ms | 9.989 ms | 18.848 ms |
| 2 | 10.064 ms | 9.982 ms | 16.470 ms |
| 3 | 10.051 ms | 9.988 ms | 15.113 ms |
| 4 | 10.125 ms | 9.929 ms | 22.411 ms |
| 5 | 8.695 ms | 5.996 ms | 15.471 ms |
| 6 | 10.157 ms | 9.977 ms | 25.723 ms |
| 7 | 10.102 ms | 9.990 ms | 20.224 ms |
| 8 | 8.050 ms | 5.985 ms | 10.007 ms |
| 9 | 10.059 ms | 9.978 ms | 15.934 ms |
| 10 | 10.077 ms | 9.984 ms | 17.703 ms |
With fix:
| Run | Mean | Min | Max |
|-----|----------|----------|-----------|
| 1 | 6.027 ms | 5.915 ms | 8.589 ms |
| 2 | 6.032 ms | 5.984 ms | 9.241 ms |
| 3 | 6.010 ms | 5.986 ms | 7.004 ms |
| 4 | 6.076 ms | 5.993 ms | 10.001 ms |
| 5 | 6.084 ms | 5.893 ms | 10.250 ms |
| 6 | 6.034 ms | 5.908 ms | 9.456 ms |
| 7 | 6.051 ms | 5.993 ms | 10.000 ms |
| 8 | 6.057 ms | 5.941 ms | 10.001 ms |
| 9 | 6.016 ms | 5.927 ms | 7.540 ms |
| 10 | 6.036 ms | 5.993 ms | 9.579 ms |
Summary:
- Mean latency: 9.75 ms -> 6.04 ms (38% improvement)
- Max latency: 25.72 ms -> 10.25 ms (60% improvement)
(2) Bridge setup/teardown latency (Uladzislau Rezki)
x86_64 with 64 CPUs, 100 iterations of bridge add/configure/delete:
real time
1 - default: 24.221s
2 - this patch: 20.754s (14% faster)
3 - this patch + wake_from_gp: 15.895s (34% faster)
4 - wake_from_gp only: 18.947s (22% faster)
Per-synchronize_rcu() latency (in usec):
1 2 3 4
median: 37249.5 31540.5 15765 22480
min: 7881 7918 9803 7857
max: 63651 55639 31861 32040
This patch combined with rcu_normal_wake_from_gp reduces bridge
setup/teardown time from 24 seconds to 16 seconds.
(3) CPU overhead verification (Uladzislau Rezki)
System CPU time across 5 runs showed no measurable increase:
default: 1.698s - 1.937s
this patch: 1.667s - 1.930s
Conclusion: variations are within noise, no CPU overhead regression.
(4) rcutorture
Tested TREE and SRCU configurations - no regressions.
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
---
kernel/rcu/tree.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 78c045a5ef03..b7c818cabe44 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ static void rcu_report_qs_rnp(unsigned long mask, struct
rcu_node *rnp,
unsigned long gps, unsigned long flags);
static void invoke_rcu_core(void);
static void rcu_report_exp_rdp(struct rcu_data *rdp);
+static void rcu_report_qs_rdp(struct rcu_data *rdp);
static void check_cb_ovld_locked(struct rcu_data *rdp, struct rcu_node *rnp);
static bool rcu_rdp_is_offloaded(struct rcu_data *rdp);
static bool rcu_rdp_cpu_online(struct rcu_data *rdp);
@@ -1983,6 +1984,17 @@ static noinline_for_stack bool rcu_gp_init(void)
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD))
on_each_cpu(rcu_strict_gp_boundary, NULL, 0);
+ /*
+ * Immediately report QS for the GP kthread's CPU. The GP kthread
+ * cannot be in an RCU read-side critical section while running
+ * the FQS scan. This eliminates the need for a second FQS wait
+ * when all CPUs are idle.
+ */
+ preempt_disable();
+ rcu_qs();
+ rcu_report_qs_rdp(this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data));
+ preempt_enable();
+
return true;
}
--
2.34.1
