linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sched: Add cond_resched_rcu

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1305031024080.1657@ja.ssi.bg>
Date:	Fri, 3 May 2013 10:52:36 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sched: Add cond_resched_rcu_lock() helper


	Hello,

On Thu, 2 May 2013, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> mainline, and missed the one that you added.  Revisiting that, a
> question:
> 
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
> > +#define PREEMPT_RCU_OFFSET     1
> 
> Does this really want to be "1" instead of PREEMPT_OFFSET?

	In this case when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU is enabled
we (RCU) do not touch the preempt counters. Instead, the units
are accounted in current->rcu_read_lock_nesting:

#define rcu_preempt_depth() (current->rcu_read_lock_nesting)

__rcu_read_lock:
	current->rcu_read_lock_nesting++;

	and the path is __might_sleep -> preempt_count_equals ->
rcu_preempt_depth

	For now both places do not use PREEMPT_OFFSET:

- #define inc_preempt_count() add_preempt_count(1)
- __rcu_read_lock: current->rcu_read_lock_nesting++;

	so, ... it does not matter much for me. In short,
the trick is in preempt_count_equals() where preempt_offset
is a combination of preempt count and RCU preempt depth:

#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
#define PREEMPT_RCU_OFFSET      (0 /* preempt */ + 1 /* RCU */)
#else
#define PREEMPT_RCU_OFFSET      (PREEMPT_CHECK_OFFSET + 0 /* RCU */)
#endif

	Let me know for your preference about this definition...

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
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