linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] srcu: Reduce blocking agressiveness of expedited grace periods further

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Date:   Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:47:24 +0530
From:   Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] srcu: Reduce blocking agressiveness of expedited grace
 periods further



On 6/28/2022 2:32 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 13:37:06 +0100,
> Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com> wrote:
>>
>> Commit 640a7d37c3f4 ("srcu: Block less aggressively for expedited
>> grace periods") highlights a problem where aggressively blocking
>> SRCU expedited grace periods, as was introduced in commit
>> 282d8998e997 ("srcu: Prevent expedited GPs and blocking readers
>> from consuming CPU"), introduces ~2 minutes delay to the overall
>> ~3.5 minutes boot time, when starting VMs with "-bios QEMU_EFI.fd"
>> cmdline on qemu, which results in very high rate of memslots
>> add/remove, which causes > ~6000 synchronize_srcu() calls for
>> kvm->srcu SRCU instance.
>>
>> Below table captures the experiments done by Zhangfei Gao, Shameer,
>> to measure the boottime impact with various values of non-sleeping
>> per phase counts, with HZ_250 and preemption enabled:
>>
>> +──────────────────────────+────────────────+
>> | SRCU_MAX_NODELAY_PHASE   | Boot time (s)  |
>> +──────────────────────────+────────────────+
>> | 100                      | 30.053         |
>> | 150                      | 25.151         |
>> | 200                      | 20.704         |
>> | 250                      | 15.748         |
>> | 500                      | 11.401         |
>> | 1000                     | 11.443         |
>> | 10000                    | 11.258         |
>> | 1000000                  | 11.154         |
>> +──────────────────────────+────────────────+
>>
>> Analysis on the experiment results showed improved boot time
>> with non blocking delays close to one jiffy duration. This
>> was also seen when number of per-phase iterations were scaled
>> to one jiffy.
>>
>> So, this change scales per-grace-period phase number of non-sleeping
>> polls, soiuch that, non-sleeping polls are done for one jiffy. In addition
>> to this, srcu_get_delay() call in srcu_gp_end(), which is used to calculate
>> the delay used for scheduling callbacks, is replaced with the check for
>> expedited grace period. This is done, to schedule cbs for completed expedited
>> grace periods immediately, which results in improved boot time seen in
>> experiments.
>>
>> In addition to the changes to default per phase delays, this change
>> adds 3 new kernel parameters - srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay,
>> srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase, srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay.
>> This allows users to configure the srcu grace period scanning delays,
>> depending on their system configuration requirements.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>
> 
> I've given this a go on one of my test platforms (the one I noticed
> the issue on the first place), and found that the initial part of the
> EFI boot under KVM (pointlessly wiping the emulated flash) went down
> to 1m7s from 3m50s (HZ=250).
> 
> Clearly a massive improvement, but still a far cry from the original
> ~40s (yes, this box is utter crap -- which is why I use it).

Do you see any improvement by using "srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay=1000" 
bootarg, on top of this patch?

> 
> Anyway:
> 
> Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>

Thanks!


Thanks
Neeraj

> 
> 	M.
>