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* [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/15] Improvements to rcu_barrier() and RT response on big systems
@ 2012-06-15 21:05 Paul E. McKenney
  2012-06-15 21:05 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/15] rcu: Control RCU_FANOUT_LEAF from boot-time parameter Paul E. McKenney
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 50+ messages in thread
From: Paul E. McKenney @ 2012-06-15 21:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: mingo, laijs, dipankar, akpm, mathieu.desnoyers, josh, niv, tglx,
	peterz, rostedt, Valdis.Kletnieks, dhowells, eric.dumazet, darren,
	fweisbec, patches

Hello!

This patch series contains improvements to the rcu_barrier() family of
primitives and to latency for large systems.  These are in a single
series due to conflicts that would otherwise occur.  The individual
patches are as follows:

1.	Allow the value for RCU_FANOUT_LEAF to be increased (but not
	decreased!) via a boot-time parameter, in turn allowing a
	default kernel build to be adjusted for low RCU grace-period
	initialization latency on a large system.
2.	Work around the new default NR_CPUS=4096 by checking the
	boot-time-computed nr_cpu_ids, allowing this to override
	NR_CPUS.  This again reduces RCU grace-period initialization
	latency for kernels built with large NR_CPUS running on small
	systems.
3.	Shrink a macro argument to keep lines under 80 characters.
4.	Add a pointer in the rcu_state structure to the corresponding
	member of the call_rcu() family of functions in preparation
	for increasing rcu_barrier() concurrency.
5.	Move _rcu_barrier()'s rcu_head structures to the per-CPU
	per-RCU-flavor rcu_data structures so that different flavors
	of rcu_barrier() do not need to contend for the rcu_head
	structures.
6.	Move rcu_barrier()'s rcu_barrier_cpu_count global variable to
	a new ->barrier_cpu_count field in the rcu_state structure, so
	that different flavors of rcu_barrier() do not need to contend
	for this variable.
7.	Move rcu_barrier()'s rcu_barrier_completion global variable to
	a new ->barrier_completion field in the rcu_state structure, so
	that different flavors of rcu_barrier() do not need to contend
	for this variable.
8.	Move rcu_barrier()'s rcu_barrier_mutex global variable to
	a new ->barrier_mutex field in the rcu_state structure, so that
	different flavors of rcu_barrier() do not need to contend for
	this variable.
9.	Introduce counter scheme to allow multiple concurrent executions
	of a given flavor of rcu_barrier() to share work.
10.	Add event tracing for _rcu_barrier().
11.	Add debugfs tracing for _rcu_barrier().
12.	Remove unnecessary per-CPU variable argument from
	__rcu_process_callbacks().
13.	Introduce for_each_rcu_flavor() iterator and use it.  This provides
	a nicer way to iterate through the RCU flavors to do per-flavor
	processing.
14.	Apply the for_each_rcu_flavor() iterator to debugfs tracing.
15.	Remove dead-code gcc helper from code that is no longer ever dead.

							Thanx, Paul

 b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    4 
 b/include/trace/events/rcu.h          |   45 +++++++
 b/kernel/rcutree.c                    |   97 +++++++++++++--
 b/kernel/rcutree.h                    |   23 ++-
 b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h             |    4 
 b/kernel/rcutree_trace.c              |    2 
 kernel/rcutree.c                      |  213 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 kernel/rcutree.h                      |   22 ++-
 kernel/rcutree_plugin.h               |  126 --------------------
 kernel/rcutree_trace.c                |  134 ++++++++++++---------
 10 files changed, 379 insertions(+), 291 deletions(-)


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2012-06-15 21:05 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/15] Improvements to rcu_barrier() and RT response on big systems Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 21:05 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/15] rcu: Control RCU_FANOUT_LEAF from boot-time parameter Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 21:05   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/15] rcu: Size rcu_node tree from nr_cpu_ids rather than NR_CPUS Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 21:47     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-16  0:37       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-16  5:17         ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-16  6:38           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-16  9:17             ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-16 14:44               ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-16 14:51                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-16 20:31                   ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-15 21:05   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/15] rcu: Prevent excessive line length in RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 21:48     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-15 21:05   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/15] rcu: Place pointer to call_rcu() in rcu_data structure Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 22:08     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-15 21:06   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/15] rcu: Move _rcu_barrier()'s rcu_head structures to rcu_data structures Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 22:19     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-15 21:06   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/15] rcu: Move rcu_barrier_cpu_count to rcu_state structure Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 22:44     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-15 21:06   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 07/15] rcu: Move rcu_barrier_completion " Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 22:51     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-15 21:06   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/15] rcu: Move rcu_barrier_mutex " Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 22:55     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-15 21:06   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/15] rcu: Increasing rcu_barrier() concurrency Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 23:31     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-16  0:21       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-06-16  0:49         ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-16  0:48       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 21:06   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/15] rcu: Add tracing for _rcu_barrier() Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 23:35     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-15 21:06   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/15] rcu: Add rcu_barrier() statistics to debugfs tracing Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 23:38     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-15 21:06   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 12/15] rcu: Remove unneeded __rcu_process_callbacks() argument Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 23:37     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-15 21:06   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 13/15] rcu: Introduce for_each_rcu_flavor() and use it Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 23:52     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-16  1:01       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-16  5:35         ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-16  6:36           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 21:06   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/15] rcu: Use for_each_rcu_flavor() in TREE_RCU tracing Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 23:59     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-16  0:56       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-16  5:22         ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-16  6:42           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 21:06   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 15/15] rcu: RCU_SAVE_DYNTICK code no longer ever dead Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-16  0:02     ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-16  0:04       ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-16  1:04         ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-15 21:43   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/15] rcu: Control RCU_FANOUT_LEAF from boot-time parameter Josh Triplett
2012-06-15 22:10     ` Paul E. McKenney

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