This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rcu: Use rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to wake up grace period kthreads
to the 3.17-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-use-rcu_gp_kthread_wake-to-wake-up-grace-period-kthreads.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 2aa792e6faf1a00f5accf1f69e87e11a390ba2cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:07:47 -0400
Subject: rcu: Use rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to wake up grace period kthreads
From: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 2aa792e6faf1a00f5accf1f69e87e11a390ba2cd upstream.
The rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function checks for three conditions before
waking up grace period kthreads:
* Is the thread we are trying to wake up the current thread?
* Are the gp_flags zero? (all threads wait on non-zero gp_flags condition)
* Is there no thread created for this flavour, hence nothing to wake up?
If any one of these condition is true, we do not call wake_up().
It was found that there are quite a few avoidable wake ups both during
idle time and under stress induced by rcutorture.
Idle:
Total:66000, unnecessary:66000, case1:61827, case2:66000, case3:0
Total:68000, unnecessary:68000, case1:63696, case2:68000, case3:0
rcutorture:
Total:254000, unnecessary:254000, case1:199913, case2:254000, case3:0
Total:256000, unnecessary:256000, case1:201784, case2:256000, case3:0
Here case{1-3} are the cases listed above. We can avoid these wake
ups by using rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to conditionally wake up the grace
period kthreads.
There is a comment about an implied barrier supplied by the wake_up()
logic. This barrier is necessary for the awakened thread to see the
updated ->gp_flags. This flag is always being updated with the root node
lock held. Also, the awakened thread tries to acquire the root node lock
before reading ->gp_flags because of which there is proper ordering.
Hence this commit tries to avoid calling wake_up() whenever we can by
using rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/tree.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1928,7 +1928,7 @@ static void rcu_report_qs_rsp(struct rcu
{
WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_gp_in_progress(rsp));
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rcu_get_root(rsp)->lock, flags);
- wake_up(&rsp->gp_wq); /* Memory barrier implied by wake_up() path. */
+ rcu_gp_kthread_wake(rsp);
}
/*
@@ -2507,7 +2507,7 @@ static void force_quiescent_state(struct
}
ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_flags) |= RCU_GP_FLAG_FQS;
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp_old->lock, flags);
- wake_up(&rsp->gp_wq); /* Memory barrier implied by wake_up() path. */
+ rcu_gp_kthread_wake(rsp);
}
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/rcu-use-rcu_gp_kthread_wake-to-wake-up-grace-period-kthreads.patch
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