Motivation of backport:
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1. The cfcdef5e30469 ("rcu: Allow rcu_do_batch() to dynamically adjust batch sizes")
broke the default behaviour of "offloading rcu callbacks" setup. In that scenario
after each callback the caller context was used to check if it has to be rescheduled
giving a CPU time for others. After that change an "offloaded" setup can switch to
time-based RCU callbacks processing, what can be long for latency sensitive workloads
and SCHED_FIFO processes, i.e. callbacks are invoked for a long time with keeping
preemption off and without checking cond_resched().
2. Our devices which run Android and 5.10 kernel have some critical areas which
are sensitive to latency. It is a low latency audio, 8k video, UI stack and so on.
For example below is a trace that illustrates a delay of "irq/396-5-0072" RT task
to complete IRQ processing:
<snip>
rcuop/6-54 [000] d.h2 183.752989: irq_handler_entry: irq=85 name=i2c_geni
rcuop/6-54 [000] d.h5 183.753007: sched_waking: comm=irq/396-5-0072 pid=12675 prio=49 target_cpu=000
rcuop/6-54 [000] dNh6 183.753014: sched_wakeup: irq/396-5-0072:12675 [49] success=1 CPU:000
rcuop/6-54 [000] dNh2 183.753015: irq_handler_exit: irq=85 ret=handled
rcuop/6-54 [000] .N.. 183.753018: rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffffff88ffd440b0 func=__d_free.cfi_jt
rcuop/6-54 [000] .N.. 183.753020: rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffffff892ffd8400 func=inode_free_by_rcu.cfi_jt
rcuop/6-54 [000] .N.. 183.753021: rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffffff89327cd708 func=i_callback.cfi_jt
...
rcuop/6-54 [000] .N.. 183.755941: rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffffff8993c5a968 func=i_callback.cfi_jt
rcuop/6-54 [000] .N.. 183.755942: rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffffff8993c4bd20 func=__d_free.cfi_jt
rcuop/6-54 [000] dN.. 183.755944: rcu_batch_end: rcu_preempt CBs-invoked=2112 idle=>c<>c<>c<>c<
rcuop/6-54 [000] dN.. 183.755946: rcu_utilization: Start context switch
rcuop/6-54 [000] dN.. 183.755946: rcu_utilization: End context switch
rcuop/6-54 [000] d..2 183.755959: sched_switch: rcuop/6:54 [120] R ==> migration/0:16 [0]
...
migratio-16 [000] d..2 183.756021: sched_switch: migration/0:16 [0] S ==> irq/396-5-0072:12675 [49]
<snip>
The "irq/396-5-0072:12675" was delayed for ~3 milliseconds due to introduced side effect.
Please note, on our Android devices we get ~70 000 callbacks registered to be invoked by
the "rcuop/x" workers. This is during 1 seconds time interval and regular handset usage.
Latencies bigger that 3 milliseconds affect our high-resolution audio streaming over the
LDAC/Bluetooth stack.
Two patches depend on each other.
Frederic Weisbecker (2):
rcu: Fix callbacks processing time limit retaining cond_resched()
rcu: Apply callbacks processing time limit only on softirq
kernel/rcu/tree.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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