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Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 08:44:57 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 6/7] rcu: Drive quiescent-state-forcing
delay from HZ
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:20:55AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > rcu: Fix comparison sense in rcu_needs_cpu()
> >
> > Commit c0f4dfd4f (rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered
> > callbacks) introduced a bug that can result in excessively long grace
> > periods. This bug reverse the senes of the "if" statement checking
> > for lazy callbacks, so that RCU takes a lazy approach when there are
> > in fact non-lazy callbacks. This can result in excessive boot, suspend,
> > and resume times.
> >
> > This commit therefore fixes the sense of this "if" statement.
> >
> > Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> > Reported-by: Bj?rn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
> > Reported-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
> > index 170814d..6d939a6 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
> > +++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
> > @@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu, unsigned long *dj)
> > rdtp->last_accelerate = jiffies;
> >
> > /* Request timer delay depending on laziness, and round. */
> > - if (rdtp->all_lazy) {
> > + if (!rdtp->all_lazy) {
> > *dj = round_up(rcu_idle_gp_delay + jiffies,
> > rcu_idle_gp_delay) - jiffies;
>
> Neat - could this explain sporadic long (but not infinite) boot times with
> NOHZ_FULL?
>
> We changed HZ to be at least 1 Hz pretty recently, which might have worked
> around this bug.
Quite possibly...
Of course, I don't see the boot slowdowns in my testing. :-/
Thanx, Paul
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