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From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
	Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 3/3] rcu: coordinate tick dependency during concurrent offlining
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:46:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220920094645.GG69891@lothringen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YylrJCjYPrcT6xKJ@piliu.users.ipa.redhat.com>

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 03:26:28PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 03:42:58PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Note this is only locking the rdp's node, not the root node.
> > Therefore if CPU 0 and CPU 256 are going off at the same time and they
> > don't belong to the same node, the above won't protect against concurrent
> > TICK_DEP_BIT_RCU set/clear.
> > 
> 
> Nice, thanks for the careful thoughts. How about moving the counting
> place to the root node?

You could but then you'd need to lock the root node.

> 
> > My suspicion is that we don't need this TICK_DEP_BIT_RCU tick dependency
> > anymore. I believe it was there because of issues that were fixed with:
> > 
> > 	53e87e3cdc15 (timers/nohz: Last resort update jiffies on nohz_full IRQ entry)
> > and:
> > 
> > 	a1ff03cd6fb9 (tick: Detect and fix jiffies update stall)
> > 
> > It's unfortunately just suspicion because the reason for that tick dependency
> > is unclear but I believe it should be safe to remove now.
> > 
> 
> I have gone through this tick dependency again, but got less.
> 
> I think at least from the RCU's viewpoint, it is useless since
> multi_cpu_stop()->rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() has eliminate the
> requirement for tick interrupt.

Partly yes.

> Is there a way to have a convincing test so that these code can be removed?
> Or this code will be got along with?

Hmm, Paul might remember which rcutorture scenario would trigger it?

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-20  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-15  5:58 [PATCHv2 0/3] rcu: Enhance the capability to cope with concurrent cpu offlining/onlining Pingfan Liu
2022-09-15  5:58 ` [PATCHv2 1/3] rcu: Keep qsmaskinitnext fresh when rcutree_online_cpu() Pingfan Liu
2022-09-15  6:11   ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-16 14:52   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2022-09-19 10:24     ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-19 10:51       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2022-09-20  3:45         ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-20  9:23           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2022-10-01  2:26             ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-02 12:34               ` Pingfan Liu
2022-10-02 15:52                 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-09-20 10:31   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2022-09-21 11:56     ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-15  5:58 ` [PATCHv2 2/3] rcu: Resort to cpu_dying_mask for affinity when offlining Pingfan Liu
2022-09-16 14:23   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2022-09-19  4:33     ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-19 10:34       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2022-09-20  3:16         ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-20  9:00           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2022-09-20  9:38   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2022-09-21 11:48     ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-15  5:58 ` [PATCHv2 3/3] rcu: coordinate tick dependency during concurrent offlining Pingfan Liu
2022-09-16 13:42   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2022-09-20  7:26     ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-20  9:46       ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2022-09-20 19:13         ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-09-22  9:29           ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-22 13:54             ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-09-23 22:13               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2022-09-26  6:34               ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-26 22:23                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-09-27  9:59                   ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-29  8:19                     ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-29  8:20                       ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-30 13:04                         ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-02 14:06                           ` Pingfan Liu
2022-10-02 16:11                             ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-02 16:24                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-02 16:30                                 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-02 16:57                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-02 16:59                                     ` Joel Fernandes
2022-09-30 15:44                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-02 13:29                         ` Pingfan Liu
2022-10-02 15:08                           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2022-10-02 16:20                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-02 16:20                           ` Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]                             ` <CAFgQCTtgLfc0NeYqyWk4Ew-pA9rMREjRjWSnQhYLv-V5117s9Q@mail.gmail.com>
2022-10-27 17:46                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-31  3:24                                 ` Pingfan Liu
2022-11-03 16:51                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-11-07 16:07                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-11-09 18:55                                       ` Joel Fernandes
2022-11-18 12:08                                         ` Pingfan Liu
2022-11-18 23:30                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-11-21  3:48                                             ` Pingfan Liu
2022-11-21 17:14                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-11-17 14:39                                       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2022-11-18  1:45                                         ` Pingfan Liu
     [not found]                             ` <CAFgQCTtNetv7v_Law=abPtngC8Gv6OGcGz9M_wWMxz_GAEWDUQ@mail.gmail.com>
2022-10-27 18:13                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-31  2:10                                 ` Pingfan Liu
2022-09-26 16:13   ` Joel Fernandes
2022-09-27  9:42     ` Pingfan Liu

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