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McKenney" Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, Catalin Marinas , Mark Rutland , Mathieu Desnoyers , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, frederic@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/16] srcu: Optimize SRCU-fast-updown for arm64 Message-ID: References: <20251105203216.2701005-15-paulmck@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: bpf@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 09:29:43AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:24:07AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2025 at 10:38:32AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2025 at 01:07:45PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 12:32:15PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > Some arm64 platforms have slow per-CPU atomic operations, for example, > > > > > the Neoverse V2. This commit therefore moves SRCU-fast from per-CPU > > > > > atomic operations to interrupt-disabled non-read-modify-write-atomic > > > > > atomic_read()/atomic_set() operations. This works because > > > > > SRCU-fast-updown is not invoked from read-side primitives, which > > > > > means that if srcu_read_unlock_fast() NMI handlers. This means that > > > > > srcu_read_lock_fast_updown() and srcu_read_unlock_fast_updown() can > > > > > exclude themselves and each other > > > > > > > > > > This reduces the overhead of calls to srcu_read_lock_fast_updown() and > > > > > srcu_read_unlock_fast_updown() from about 100ns to about 12ns on an ARM > > > > > Neoverse V2. Although this is not excellent compared to about 2ns on x86, > > > > > it sure beats 100ns. > > > > > > > > > > This command was used to measure the overhead: > > > > > > > > > > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --torture refscale --allcpus --duration 5 --configs NOPREEMPT --kconfig "CONFIG_NR_CPUS=64 CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU=y" --bootargs "refscale.loops=100000 refscale.guest_os_delay=5 refscale.nreaders=64 refscale.holdoff=30 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot refscale.scale_type=srcu-fast-updown refscale.verbose_batched=8 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency=8 torture.verbose_sleep_duration=8 refscale.nruns=100" --trust-make > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney > > > > > Cc: Catalin Marinas > > > > > Cc: Will Deacon > > > > > Cc: Mark Rutland > > > > > Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers > > > > > Cc: Steven Rostedt > > > > > Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior > > > > > Cc: > > > > > Cc: > > > > > --- > > > > > include/linux/srcutree.h | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > > > > > 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > > > > > > > I've queued the per-cpu tweak from Catalin in the arm64 fixes tree [1] > > > > for 6.18, so please can you drop this SRCU commit from your tree? > > > > > > Very good! Adding Frederic on CC since he is doing the pull request > > > for the upcoming merge window. > > > > > > But if this doesn't show up in -rc1, we reserve the right to put it > > > back in. > > > > > > Sorry, couldn't resist! ;-) > > > > I've merged it as a fix, so hopefully it will show up in v6.18-rc6. > > Even better, thank you!!! It landed in Linus' tree here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/arm64?id=535fdfc5a228524552ee8810c9175e877e127c27 Please can you drop the SRCU change from -next? It still shows up in 20251121. Will