linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Make need_resched() return true when rcu_urgent

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Date:   Mon, 09 Jul 2018 12:12:15 +0100
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        mhillenb@...zon.de, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Make need_resched() return true when rcu_urgent_qs
 requested

On Mon, 2018-07-09 at 13:06 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:56:41AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > But either proposal is exactly the same in this respect. The whole
> > > rcu_urgent_qs thing won't be set any earlier either.
> > Er.... Marius, our latencies in expand_fdtable() definitely went from
> > ~10s to well below one second when we just added the rcu_all_qs() into
> > the loop, didn't they? And that does nothing if !rcu_urgent_qs.
> Argh I never found that, because obfuscation:
> 
> 	ruqp = per_cpu_ptr(&rcu_dynticks.rcu_urgent_qs, rdp->cpu);
> 	...
> 		smp_store_release(ruqp, true);
> 
> I, using git grep "rcu_urgent_qs.*true" only found
> rcu_request_urgent_qs_task() and sync_sched_exp_handler().
> 
> But how come KVM even triggers that case; rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() is
> for NOHZ and offline CPUs.

I don't know that it is; I'm merely going by the empirical observation
that with a check for rcu_urgent_qs in the vcpu_run() loop, KVM is no
longer screwing over synchronize_sched() for 10 seconds at a time. Or
even 1 second at a time.

I'm all for considering a CPU in guest mode to be quiescent, and not
waiting for it at all. But we don't do that without full NOHZ even for
CPUs in userspace.
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