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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:41:55 -0500
From: Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
To: paulmck@...nel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: raise RCU qs after each threaded NAPI poll
> On Feb 29, 2024, at 11:57 AM, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 09:21:48AM -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 2/28/2024 5:58 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 02:48:44PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 2:31 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:19:11 -0800
>>>>> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well, to your initial point, cond_resched() does eventually invoke
>>>>>>>> preempt_schedule_common(), so you are quite correct that as far as
>>>>>>>> Tasks RCU is concerned, cond_resched() is not a quiescent state.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for confirming. :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, given that the current Tasks RCU use cases wait for trampolines
>>>>>> to be evacuated, Tasks RCU could make the choice that cond_resched()
>>>>>> be a quiescent state, for example, by adjusting rcu_all_qs() and
>>>>>> .rcu_urgent_qs accordingly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But this seems less pressing given the chance that cond_resched() might
>>>>>> go away in favor of lazy preemption.
>>>>>
>>>>> Although cond_resched() is technically a "preemption point" and not truly a
>>>>> voluntary schedule, I would be happy to state that it's not allowed to be
>>>>> called from trampolines, or their callbacks. Now the question is, does BPF
>>>>> programs ever call cond_resched()? I don't think they do.
>>>>>
>>>>> [ Added Alexei ]
>>>>
>>>> I'm a bit lost in this thread :)
>>>> Just answering the above question.
>>>> bpf progs never call cond_resched() directly.
>>>> But there are sleepable (aka faultable) bpf progs that
>>>> can call some helper or kfunc that may call cond_resched()
>>>> in some path.
>>>> sleepable bpf progs are protected by rcu_tasks_trace.
>>>> That's a very different one vs rcu_tasks.
>>>
>>> Suppose that the various cond_resched() invocations scattered throughout
>>> the kernel acted as RCU Tasks quiescent states, so that as soon as a
>>> given task executed a cond_resched(), synchronize_rcu_tasks() might
>>> return or call_rcu_tasks() might invoke its callback.
>>>
>>> Would that cause BPF any trouble?
>>>
>>> My guess is "no", because it looks like BPF is using RCU Tasks (as you
>>> say, as opposed to RCU Tasks Trace) only to wait for execution to leave a
>>> trampoline. But I trust you much more than I trust myself on this topic!
>>
>> But it uses RCU Tasks Trace as well (for sleepable bpf programs), not just
>> Tasks? Looks like that's what Alexei said above as well, and I confirmed it in
>> bpf/trampoline.c
>>
>> /* The trampoline without fexit and fmod_ret progs doesn't call original
>> * function and doesn't use percpu_ref.
>> * Use call_rcu_tasks_trace() to wait for sleepable progs to finish.
>> * Then use call_rcu_tasks() to wait for the rest of trampoline asm
>> * and normal progs.
>> */
>> call_rcu_tasks_trace(&im->rcu, __bpf_tramp_image_put_rcu_tasks);
>>
>> The code comment says it uses both.
>
> BPF does quite a few interesting things with these.
>
> But would you like to look at the update-side uses of RCU Tasks Rude
> to see if lazy preemption affects them? I don't believe that there
> are any problems here, but we do need to check.
Sure I will be happy to. I am planning look at it in detail over the 3 day weekend. Too much fun! ;-)
thanks,
- Joel
>
> Thanx, Paul
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