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Message-ID: <20141003153701.7c7da030@jlaw-desktop.mno.stratus.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 15:37:01 -0400
From: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...atus.com>
To: <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] team: add rescheduling jiffy delay on !rtnl_trylock
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 23:43:08 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:06:01PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > (cc'ing Paul and quoting the whole body)
> >
> > Paul, this is a fix for RCU sched stall observed w/ a work item
> > requeueing itself waiting for the RCU grace period. As the self
> > requeueing work item ends up being executed by the same kworker, the
> > worker task never stops running in the absence of a higher priority
> > task and it seems to delay RCU grace period for a very long time on
> > !PREEMPT kernels. As each work item denotes a boundary which no
> > synchronization construct stretches across, I wonder whether it'd be a
> > good idea to add a notification for the end of RCU critical section
> > between executions of work items.
>
> It sounds like a great idea to me! I suggest invoking
> rcu_note_context_switch() between executions of work items.
>
> Thanx, Paul
I gave this a spin, probably inserting the call in the wrong place:
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 5dbe22a..77f128e 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -2045,7 +2045,8 @@ __acquires(&pool->lock)
* indefinitely requeue itself while all other CPUs are trapped in
* stop_machine.
*/
- cond_resched();
+ if (!cond_resched())
+ rcu_note_context_switch(raw_smp_processor_id());
spin_lock_irq(&pool->lock);
this results in RCU grace periods progressing (dyntick remains
fixed) as advertised, even with the test-module from [1] loaded:
Fri Oct 3 14:37:14 2014
4 c=9635 g=9636 pq=1 qp=0 dt=51693/140000000000000/0 df=163 of=0 ql=0/1 qs=...D b=10 ci=0 nci=34184 co=0 ca=0
Fri Oct 3 14:50:24 2014
4 c=13072 g=13073 pq=1 qp=0 dt=51693/140000000000000/0 df=163 of=0 ql=0/1 qs=...D b=10 ci=0 nci=34191 co=0 ca=0
I'll leave it up to Tejun to determine where/how that call should be
made.
Thanks!
-- Joe
[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141192244232345
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