RE: [PATCH rcu 12/12] srcu: Block less aggressively for expedited grace periods

[Shameerali Kolothum Thodi <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul E. McKenney [mailto:paulmck@kernel.org]
> Sent: 20 June 2022 23:21
> To: rcu@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; kernel-team@fb.com;
> rostedt@goodmis.org; Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>; Zhangfei
> Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>; Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
> <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>; Paolo Bonzini
> <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Subject: [PATCH rcu 12/12] srcu: Block less aggressively for expedited grace
> periods
> 
> Commit 282d8998e997 ("srcu: Prevent expedited GPs and blocking readers
> from consuming CPU") fixed a problem where a long-running expedited
> SRCU
> grace period could block kernel live patching.  It did so by giving up
> on expediting once a given SRCU expedited grace period grew too old.
> 
> Unfortunately, this added excessive delays to boots of embedded systems
> running on qemu that use the ARM IORT RMR feature. 

As pointed out here[0]/[1], this delay has nothing to do with ARM IORT RMR
feature. The delay is due to the "-bios QEMU_EFI.fd" line which emulates flash
devices and requires excessive memslot ops during boot.

Thanks,
Shameer

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/110bbec5cee74efba0aad64360069a12@huawei.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/8735g649ew.wl-maz@kernel.org/


 This commit
> therefore
> makes the transition away from expediting less aggressive, increasing
> the per-grace-period phase number of non-sleeping polls of readers from
> one to three and increasing the required grace-period age from one jiffy
> (actually from zero to one jiffies) to two jiffies (actually from one
> to two jiffies).
> 
> Fixes: 282d8998e997 ("srcu: Prevent expedited GPs and blocking readers
> from consuming CPU")
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
> Reported-by: chenxiang (M)" <chenxiang66@hisilicon.com>
> Cc: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi  <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Link:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20615615-0013-5adc-584f-2b1d5c03ebfc@linaro
> .org/
> ---
>  kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
> index 50ba70f019dea..0db7873f4e95b 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
> @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ static bool srcu_readers_active(struct srcu_struct
> *ssp)
> 
>  #define SRCU_INTERVAL		1	// Base delay if no expedited GPs
> pending.
>  #define SRCU_MAX_INTERVAL	10	// Maximum incremental delay from
> slow readers.
> -#define SRCU_MAX_NODELAY_PHASE	1	// Maximum per-GP-phase
> consecutive no-delay instances.
> +#define SRCU_MAX_NODELAY_PHASE	3	// Maximum per-GP-phase
> consecutive no-delay instances.
>  #define SRCU_MAX_NODELAY	100	// Maximum consecutive no-delay
> instances.
> 
>  /*
> @@ -522,16 +522,22 @@ static bool srcu_readers_active(struct srcu_struct
> *ssp)
>   */
>  static unsigned long srcu_get_delay(struct srcu_struct *ssp)
>  {
> +	unsigned long gpstart;
> +	unsigned long j;
>  	unsigned long jbase = SRCU_INTERVAL;
> 
>  	if (ULONG_CMP_LT(READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_seq),
> READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_seq_needed_exp)))
>  		jbase = 0;
> -	if (rcu_seq_state(READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_seq)))
> -		jbase += jiffies - READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_start);
> -	if (!jbase) {
> -		WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_n_exp_nodelay,
> READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_n_exp_nodelay) + 1);
> -		if (READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_n_exp_nodelay) >
> SRCU_MAX_NODELAY_PHASE)
> -			jbase = 1;
> +	if (rcu_seq_state(READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_seq))) {
> +		j = jiffies - 1;
> +		gpstart = READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_start);
> +		if (time_after(j, gpstart))
> +			jbase += j - gpstart;
> +		if (!jbase) {
> +			WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_n_exp_nodelay,
> READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_n_exp_nodelay) + 1);
> +			if (READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_n_exp_nodelay) >
> SRCU_MAX_NODELAY_PHASE)
> +				jbase = 1;
> +		}
>  	}
>  	return jbase > SRCU_MAX_INTERVAL ? SRCU_MAX_INTERVAL : jbase;
>  }
> --
> 2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23