This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rcu: add a helper to report consolidated flavor QS
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rcu-add-a-helper-to-report-consolidated-flavor-qs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 59cec75b7478e92fc0341d3d9c1cbe80ed022db2
Author: Yan Zhai <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Mar 19 13:44:34 2024 -0700
rcu: add a helper to report consolidated flavor QS
[ Upstream commit 1a77557d48cff187a169c2aec01c0dd78a5e7e50 ]
When under heavy load, network processing can run CPU-bound for many
tens of seconds. Even in preemptible kernels (non-RT kernel), this can
block RCU Tasks grace periods, which can cause trace-event removal to
take more than a minute, which is unacceptably long.
This commit therefore creates a new helper function that passes through
both RCU and RCU-Tasks quiescent states every 100 milliseconds. This
hard-coded value suffices for current workloads.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yan Zhai <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/90431d46ee112d2b0af04dbfe936faaca11810a5.1710877680.git.yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 00bf63122459 ("bpf: report RCU QS in cpumap kthread")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index c75b38ba4a728..bc4b5c905a602 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -164,6 +164,37 @@ do { \
cond_resched(); \
} while (0)
+/**
+ * rcu_softirq_qs_periodic - Report RCU and RCU-Tasks quiescent states
+ * @old_ts: jiffies at start of processing.
+ *
+ * This helper is for long-running softirq handlers, such as NAPI threads in
+ * networking. The caller should initialize the variable passed in as @old_ts
+ * at the beginning of the softirq handler. When invoked frequently, this macro
+ * will invoke rcu_softirq_qs() every 100 milliseconds thereafter, which will
+ * provide both RCU and RCU-Tasks quiescent states. Note that this macro
+ * modifies its old_ts argument.
+ *
+ * Because regions of code that have disabled softirq act as RCU read-side
+ * critical sections, this macro should be invoked with softirq (and
+ * preemption) enabled.
+ *
+ * The macro is not needed when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is defined. RT kernels would
+ * have more chance to invoke schedule() calls and provide necessary quiescent
+ * states. As a contrast, calling cond_resched() only won't achieve the same
+ * effect because cond_resched() does not provide RCU-Tasks quiescent states.
+ */
+#define rcu_softirq_qs_periodic(old_ts) \
+do { \
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && \
+ time_after(jiffies, (old_ts) + HZ / 10)) { \
+ preempt_disable(); \
+ rcu_softirq_qs(); \
+ preempt_enable(); \
+ (old_ts) = jiffies; \
+ } \
+} while (0)
+
/*
* Infrastructure to implement the synchronize_() primitives in
* TREE_RCU and rcu_barrier_() primitives in TINY_RCU.
