From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Gortmaker Subject: [PATCH 0/4] RFC: support for global CPU list abbreviations Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2020 11:08:12 -0500 Message-ID: <20201108160816.896881-1-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=windriversystems.onmicrosoft.com; s=selector2-windriversystems-onmicrosoft-com; h=From:Date:Subject:Message-ID:Content-Type:MIME-Version:X-MS-Exchange-SenderADCheck; bh=T2cajyWv+8aq85qUtmXVdB+lKrja6lK1jL5SJc0rNHA=; b=bTJiNj213/Ub97Bcsopo4ijz6WSFIU8XVOwlsWL1UJMia2UWYD99RZquaHum9AhzvfxQtyvsBxmosQwiTxfVNEBouRqEG4r3HTaccn96HDcTm7CPJhbdhiRiC6zjVsw43ETuqq0uHQ8m/r8Ssi0rm8HJKgm8voZ2kjg3lCGXIxM= List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Paul Gortmaker , Frederic Weisbecker , "Paul E. McKenney" , Josh Triplett , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Li Zefan The basic objective here was to add support for "nohz_full=8-last" and/or "rcu_nocbs="4-last" -- essentially introduce "last" as a portable reference evaluated at boot/runtime for anything using a CPU list. The thinking behind this, is that people carve off a few early CPUs to support housekeeping tasks, and perhaps dedicate one to a busy I/O peripheral, and then the remaining pool of CPUs out to the end are a part of a commonly configured pool used for the real work the user cares about. Extend that logic out to a fleet of machines - some new, and some nearing EOL, and you've probably got a wide range of core counts to contend with - even though the early number of cores dedicated to the system overhead probably doesn't vary. This change would enable sysadmins to have a common bootarg across all such systems, and would also avoid any off-by-one fencepost errors that happen for users who might briefly forget that core counts start at zero. Looking around before starting, I noticed RCU already had a short-form abbreviation "all" -- but if we want to treat CPU lists in a uniform matter, then tokens shouldn't be implemented at a subsystem level and hence be subsystem specific; each with their own variations. So I moved "all" to global use - for boot args, and for cgroups. Then I added the inverse "none" and finally, the one I wanted -- "last". The use of "last" isn't a standalone word like "all" or "none". It will be a part of a complete range specification, possibly with CSV separate ranges, and possibly specified multiple times. So I had to be a bit more careful with string matching - and hence un-inlined the parse function as commit #1 in this series. But it really is a generic support for "replace token ABC with known at boot value XYZ" - for example, it would be trivial to extend support to add "half" as a dynamic token to be replaced with 1/2 the core count, even though I wouldn't suggest that has a use case like "last" does. I tested the string matching with a bunch of intentionally badly crafted strings in a user-space harness, and tested bootarg use with nohz_full and rcu_nocbs, and also the post-boot cgroup use case as per below: root@hackbox:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset# mkdir foo root@hackbox:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset# cd foo root@hackbox:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/foo# cat cpuset.cpus root@hackbox:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/foo# /bin/echo 10-last > cpuset.cpus root@hackbox:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/foo# cat cpuset.cpus 10-15 root@hackbox:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/foo# /bin/echo all > cpuset.cpus root@hackbox:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/foo# cat cpuset.cpus 0-15 root@hackbox:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/foo# /bin/echo none > cpuset.cpus root@hackbox:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/foo# cat cpuset.cpus root@hackbox:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/foo# This was on a 16 core machine with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=16 in .config file. Note that the two use cases (boot and runtime) are why you see "early" parameter in the code - I entertained just sticking the string copy on the stack vs. the early alloc dance, but this felt more correct/robust. The cgroup and modular code using cpulist_parse() are runtime cases. --- Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Li Zefan Paul Gortmaker (4): cpumask: un-inline cpulist_parse; prepare for ascii helpers cpumask: make "all" alias global and not just RCU cpumask: add a "none" alias to complement "all" cpumask: add "last" alias for cpu list specifications .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 20 +++ .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 +- include/linux/cpumask.h | 12 +- kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 13 +- lib/cpumask.c | 132 ++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1