Re: [PATCH] simplify/improve rcu batch tuning

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:30:22PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 09/08, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 03:39:30PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > > > @@ -297,6 +294,7 @@ static void rcu_start_batch(struct rcu_c
> > > > >  		smp_mb();
> > > > >  		cpus_andnot(rcp->cpumask, cpu_online_map, nohz_cpu_mask);
> > > > >
> > > > > +		rcp->signaled = 0;
> > > >
> > > > Would it make sense to invoke force_quiescent_state() here in the
> > > > case that rdp->qlen is still large?  The disadvantage is that qlen
> > > > still counts the number of callbacks that are already slated for
> > > > invocation.
> > > 
> > > This is not easy to do. rcu_start_batch() is "global", we need
> > > to scan all per-cpu 'struct rcu_data' and check it's ->qlen.
> > 
> > My thought was that it might make sense to check only this CPU's struct
> > rcu_data.  But I agree that the next approach seems more promising.
> 
> Yes, I understood this. And I don't say this is "bad", I just think this is
> "not perfect". Because the CPU which actually starts a new grace period and
> clears ->signaled may have ->qlen == 0, and the caller is cpu_quiet(), which
> is a "response" to some other CPU's force_quiescent_state().

Sounds good!

							Thanx, Paul