Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 6/7] rcu: Drive quiescent-state-forcing delay from HZ

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

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:20:55AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > rcu: Fix comparison sense in rcu_needs_cpu()
> > 
> > Commit c0f4dfd4f (rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered
> > callbacks) introduced a bug that can result in excessively long grace
> > periods.  This bug reverse the senes of the "if" statement checking
> > for lazy callbacks, so that RCU takes a lazy approach when there are
> > in fact non-lazy callbacks.  This can result in excessive boot, suspend,
> > and resume times.
> > 
> > This commit therefore fixes the sense of this "if" statement.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> > Reported-by: Bj?rn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
> > Reported-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
> > index 170814d..6d939a6 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
> > +++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
> > @@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu, unsigned long *dj)
> >  	rdtp->last_accelerate = jiffies;
> >  
> >  	/* Request timer delay depending on laziness, and round. */
> > -	if (rdtp->all_lazy) {
> > +	if (!rdtp->all_lazy) {
> >  		*dj = round_up(rcu_idle_gp_delay + jiffies,
> >  			       rcu_idle_gp_delay) - jiffies;
> 
> Neat - could this explain sporadic long (but not infinite) boot times with 
> NOHZ_FULL?
> 
> We changed HZ to be at least 1 Hz pretty recently, which might have worked 
> around this bug.

Quite possibly...

Of course, I don't see the boot slowdowns in my testing.  :-/

							Thanx, Paul