From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756217Ab0LQUzJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:55:09 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:59209 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756165Ab0LQUzE (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:55:04 -0500 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 12/20] rcu: Make synchronize_srcu_expedited() fast if running readers Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:54:43 -0800 Message-Id: <1292619291-2468-12-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.2 In-Reply-To: <20101217205433.GA10199@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20101217205433.GA10199@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The synchronize_srcu_expedited() function is currently quick if there are no active readers, but will delay a full jiffy if there are any. If these readers leave their SRCU read-side critical sections quickly, this is way too long to wait. So this commit first waits ten microseconds, and only then falls back to jiffy-at-a-time waiting. Reported-by: Avi Kivity Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti Tested-by: Takuya Yoshikawa Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- init/Kconfig | 15 +++++++++++++++ kernel/srcu.c | 8 +++++++- 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 929adf6..3551824 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -488,6 +488,21 @@ config RCU_BOOST_DELAY Accept the default if unsure. +config SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY + int "Microseconds to delay before waiting for readers" + range 0 20 + default 10 + help + This option controls how long SRCU delays before entering its + loop waiting on SRCU readers. The purpose of this loop is + to avoid the unconditional context-switch penalty that would + otherwise be incurred if there was an active SRCU reader, + in a manner similar to adaptive locking schemes. This should + be set to be a bit longer than the common-case SRCU read-side + critical-section overhead. + + Accept the default if unsure. + endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" config IKCONFIG diff --git a/kernel/srcu.c b/kernel/srcu.c index c71e075..98d8c1e 100644 --- a/kernel/srcu.c +++ b/kernel/srcu.c @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include static int init_srcu_struct_fields(struct srcu_struct *sp) @@ -203,9 +204,14 @@ static void __synchronize_srcu(struct srcu_struct *sp, void (*sync_func)(void)) * all srcu_read_lock() calls using the old counters have completed. * Their corresponding critical sections might well be still * executing, but the srcu_read_lock() primitives themselves - * will have finished executing. + * will have finished executing. We initially give readers + * an arbitrarily chosen 10 microseconds to get out of their + * SRCU read-side critical sections, then loop waiting 1/HZ + * seconds per iteration. */ + if (srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, idx)) + udelay(CONFIG_SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY); while (srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, idx)) schedule_timeout_interruptible(1); -- 1.7.3.2