rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU

Commit ac1bea8578 (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states)
fixed a problem where a CPU looping in the kernel with but one runnable
task would give RCU CPU stall warnings, even if the in-kernel loop
contained cond_resched() calls.  Unfortunately, in so doing, it introduced
performance regressions in Anton Blanchard's will-it-scale "open1" test.
The problem appears to be not so much the increased cond_resched() path
length as an increase in the rate at which grace periods complete, which
increased per-update grace-period overhead.

This commit takes a different approach to fixing this bug, mainly by
moving the RCU-visible quiescent state from cond_resched() to
rcu_note_context_switch(), and by further reducing the check to a
simple non-zero test of a single per-CPU variable.  However, this
approach requires that the force-quiescent-state processing send
resched IPIs to the offending CPUs.  These will be sent only once
the grace period has reached an age specified by the boot/sysfs
parameter rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs, or once the grace period
reaches an age halfway to the point at which RCU CPU stall warnings
will be emitted, whichever comes first.

Reported-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
[ paulmck: Made rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() as suggested by the
  ktest build robot.  Also fixed smp_mb() comment as noted by
  Oleg Nesterov. ]

Merge with e552592e (Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Paul E. McKenney 2014-06-20 16:49:01 -07:00
commit 4a81e8328d
7 changed files with 125 additions and 90 deletions

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@ -4147,7 +4147,6 @@ static void __cond_resched(void)
int __sched _cond_resched(void)
{
rcu_cond_resched();
if (should_resched()) {
__cond_resched();
return 1;
@ -4166,18 +4165,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(_cond_resched);
*/
int __cond_resched_lock(spinlock_t *lock)
{
bool need_rcu_resched = rcu_should_resched();
int resched = should_resched();
int ret = 0;
lockdep_assert_held(lock);
if (spin_needbreak(lock) || resched || need_rcu_resched) {
if (spin_needbreak(lock) || resched) {
spin_unlock(lock);
if (resched)
__cond_resched();
else if (unlikely(need_rcu_resched))
rcu_resched();
else
cpu_relax();
ret = 1;
@ -4191,7 +4187,6 @@ int __sched __cond_resched_softirq(void)
{
BUG_ON(!in_softirq());
rcu_cond_resched(); /* BH disabled OK, just recording QSes. */
if (should_resched()) {
local_bh_enable();
__cond_resched();