linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 tip/core/rcu 1/9] rcu: Add call_rcu

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Date:	Fri, 8 Aug 2014 21:13:26 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
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	dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, dvhart@...ux.intel.com,
	fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, bobby.prani@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 tip/core/rcu 1/9] rcu: Add call_rcu_tasks()



So I think you can make the entire thing work with
rcu_note_context_switch().

If we have the sync thing do something like:


	for_each_task(t) {
		atomic_inc(&rcu_tasks);
		atomic_or(&t->rcu_attention, RCU_TASK);
		smp_mb__after_atomic();
		if (!t->on_rq) {
			if (atomic_test_and_clear(&t->rcu_attention, RCU_TASK))
				atomic_dec(&rcu_tasks);
		}
	}

	wait_event(&rcu_tasks_wq, !atomic_read(&rcu_tasks));


And then we have rcu_task_note_context_switch() (as called from
rcu_note_context_switch) do:


	/* we want actual context switches, ignore preemption */
	if (preempt_count() & PREEMPT_ACTIVE)
		return;

	/* if not marked for RCU attention, bail */
	if (!(atomic_read(&t->rcu_attention) & RCU_TASK))
		return;

	/* raced with sync_rcu_task(), all done */
	if (!atomic_test_and_clear(&t->rcu_attention, RCU_TASK))
		return;

	/* not the last.. */
	if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&rcu_tasks))
		return;

	wake_up(&rcu_task_rq);


The idea is to share rcu_attention with rcu_preempt, such that we only
touch a single 'extra' cacheline in case RCU doesn't need to pay
attention to this task.

Also, it would be good if we can manage to squeeze this variable in a
cacheline that's already touched by the schedule() so as not to incur
undue overhead.

And on that, you probably should change rcu_sched_rq() to read:

	this_cpu_inc(rcu_sched_data.passed_quiesce);

That avoids touching the per-cpu data offset.

And it would be very good if we could avoid the unconditional IRQ flag
fiddling in rcu_preempt_note_context_switch(), them expensive, this
looks entirely feasibly in the 'normal' case where
t->rcu_read_unlock_special doesn't have RCU_READ_UNLOCK_NEED_QS set.
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