linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] X86/CPU: Avoid 100ms sleep for cpu offline during S3

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Message-ID: <53E9FC39.1030700@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:36:25 -0400
From:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
To:	Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>
CC:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	x86@...nel.org, toshi.kani@...com, imammedo@...hat.com,
	bp@...en8.de, mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] X86/CPU: Avoid 100ms sleep for cpu offline  during
 S3



On 08/12/2014 03:31 AM, Lan Tianyu wrote:
> With some bad kernel configures, cpu offline consumes more than 100ms
> during S3. This because native_cpu_die() would fall into 100ms
> sleep when cpu idle loop thread marked cpu state to DEAD slower. It's
> timing related issue. What native_cpu_die() does is that poll cpu
> state and wait for 100ms if cpu state hasn't been marked to DEAD.
> The 100ms sleep doesn't make sense. To avoid such long sleep, this
> patch is to add struct completion to each cpu, wait for the completion
> in the native_cpu_die() and wakeup the completion when the cpu state is
> marked to DEAD.
> 
> Tested on the Intel Xeon server with 48 cores, Ivbridge and Haswell laptops.
> the times of cpu offline on these machines are reduced from more than 100ms
> to less than 5ms. The system suspend time reduces 2.3s on the servers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>

Tested across a few systems of various sizes and configurations (multi-socket,
single-socket, no hyper threading, etc.).  No issues seen.

Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>

P.

> ---
> Change since V1:
> 	Remove redundant empty line and correct some code styple issues.
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 23 +++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> index edf80bb..bc65e42 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> @@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(cpumask_var_t, cpu_llc_shared_map);
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct cpuinfo_x86, cpu_info);
>  EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_info);
>  
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct completion, die_complete);
> +
>  atomic_t init_deasserted;
>  
>  /*
> @@ -1331,7 +1333,7 @@ int native_cpu_disable(void)
>  		return ret;
>  
>  	clear_local_APIC();
> -
> +	init_completion(&per_cpu(die_complete, smp_processor_id()));
>  	cpu_disable_common();
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -1339,18 +1341,14 @@ int native_cpu_disable(void)
>  void native_cpu_die(unsigned int cpu)
>  {
>  	/* We don't do anything here: idle task is faking death itself. */
> -	unsigned int i;
> +	wait_for_completion_timeout(&per_cpu(die_complete, cpu), HZ);
>  
> -	for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
> -		/* They ack this in play_dead by setting CPU_DEAD */
> -		if (per_cpu(cpu_state, cpu) == CPU_DEAD) {
> -			if (system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING)
> -				pr_info("CPU %u is now offline\n", cpu);
> -			return;
> -		}
> -		msleep(100);
> -	}
> -	pr_err("CPU %u didn't die...\n", cpu);
> +	/* They ack this in play_dead by setting CPU_DEAD */
> +	if (per_cpu(cpu_state, cpu) == CPU_DEAD) {
> +		if (system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING)
> +			pr_info("CPU %u is now offline\n", cpu);
> +	} else
> +		pr_err("CPU %u didn't die...\n", cpu);
>  }
>  
>  void play_dead_common(void)
> @@ -1362,6 +1360,7 @@ void play_dead_common(void)
>  	mb();
>  	/* Ack it */
>  	__this_cpu_write(cpu_state, CPU_DEAD);
> +	complete(&per_cpu(die_complete, smp_processor_id()));
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * With physical CPU hotplug, we should halt the cpu
> 
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