linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Introduce simple hazard pointers for lockdep

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Message-ID: <Z__G_8VNrgUpfpuk@pc636>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:04:31 +0200
From: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, aeh@...a.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	edumazet@...gle.com, jhs@...atatu.com, kernel-team@...a.com,
	Erik Lundgren <elundgren@...a.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
	Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@...nel.org>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>, rcu@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Introduce simple hazard pointers for lockdep

On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 07:14:04AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> Hi Boqun,
> 
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 11:00:47PM -0700, Boqun Feng wrote:
> 
> > Overall it looks promising to me, but I would like to see how it
> > performs in the environment of Breno. Also as Paul always reminds me:
> > buggy code usually run faster, so please take a look in case I'm missing
> > something ;-) Thanks!
> 
> Thanks for the patchset. I've confirmed that the wins are large on my
> environment, but, at the same magnitute of synchronize_rcu_expedited().
> 
> Here are the numbers I got:
> 
> 	6.15-rc1 (upstream)
> 		# time /usr/sbin/tc qdisc replace dev eth0 root handle 0x1234: mq
> 		real	0m3.986s
> 		user	0m0.001s
> 		sys	0m0.093s
> 
> 	Your patchset on top of 6.15-rc1
> 		# time /usr/sbin/tc qdisc replace dev eth0 root handle 0x1234: mq
> 		real	0m0.072s
> 		user	0m0.001s
> 		sys	0m0.070s
> 
> 
> 	My original proposal of using synchronize_rcu_expedited()[1]
> 		# time /usr/sbin/tc qdisc replace dev eth0 root handle 0x1234: mq
> 		real	0m0.074s
> 		user	0m0.001s
> 		sys	0m0.061s
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250321-lockdep-v1-1-78b732d195fb@debian.org/ [1]
> 
Could you please also do the test of fist scenario with a regular
synchronize_rcu() but switch to its faster variant:

echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp

and run the test. If you have a time.

Thank you!

--
Vlad Rezki