Because RCU callbacks are now associated with the number of the grace
period that they must wait for, CPUs can now take advance callbacks
corresponding to grace periods that ended while a given CPU was in
dyntick-idle mode. This eliminates the need to try forcing the RCU
state machine while entering idle, thus reducing the CPU intensiveness
of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, which should increase its energy efficiency.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, callback invocations from callback-free CPUs are accounted to
the CPU that registered the callback, but using the same field that is
used for normal callbacks. This makes it impossible to determine from
debugfs output whether callbacks are in fact being diverted. This commit
therefore adds a separate ->n_nocbs_invoked field in the rcu_data structure
in which diverted callback invocations are counted. RCU's debugfs tracing
still displays normal callback invocations using ci=, but displayed
diverted callbacks with nci=.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
RCU callback execution can add significant OS jitter and also can
degrade both scheduling latency and, in asymmetric multiprocessors,
energy efficiency. This commit therefore adds the ability for selected
CPUs ("rcu_nocbs=" boot parameter) to have their callbacks offloaded
to kthreads. If the "rcu_nocb_poll" boot parameter is also specified,
these kthreads will do polling, removing the need for the offloaded
CPUs to do wakeups. At least one CPU must be doing normal callback
processing: currently CPU 0 cannot be selected as a no-CBs CPU.
In addition, attempts to offline the last normal-CBs CPU will fail.
This feature was inspired by Jim Houston's and Joe Korty's JRCU, and
this commit includes fixes to problems located by Fengguang Wu's
kbuild test robot.
[ paulmck: Added gfp.h include file as suggested by Fengguang Wu. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds a per-RCU-flavor "rcuexp" file that dumps out
statistics for synchonize_sched_expedited().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit removes the old debugfs interfaces, so that the new
directory-per-RCU-flavor versions remain. Because the RCU flavor is
given by the directory name, there is no need to print it out, so remove
the name from the printout.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch add new 'rcuhier' to each flavor's folder, now we could use:
'cat /debugfs/rcu/rsp/rcuhier'
to get the selected rsp info.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch add new 'rcugp' to each flavor's folder, now we could use:
'cat /debugfs/rcu/rsp/rcugp'
to get the selected rsp info.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch add new 'rcuboost' to each flavor's folder, now we could use:
'cat /debugfs/rcu/rsp/rcuboost'
to get the selected rsp info.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch add new 'rcubarrier' to each flavor's folder, now we could use:
'cat /debugfs/rcu/rsp/rcubarrier'
to get the selected rsp info.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_state structure's ->completed field is unsigned long, so this
commit adjusts show_one_rcugp()'s printf() format to suit. Also add
the required ACCESS_ONCE() directives while we are in this function.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch implements the new 'rcu_pending' interface under each rsp
directory, by using the 'CPU units sequence reading', thus avoiding loss
of tracing data.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch implements the new 'rcudata.csv' interface under each rsp
directory, by using the 'CPU units sequence reading', thus avoiding loss
of tracing data.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch implements the new 'rcudata' interface under each rsp
directory, by using the 'CPU units sequence reading', thus avoiding loss
of tracing data.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch add the fundamental facility used by the following patches, so we
can implement the 'CPU units sequence reading' later.
This helps us avoid losing data when there are too many CPUs and too
small of a buffer, since this new approach allows userspace to read out
the data one CPU at a time. Thus, if the buffer is not large enough,
userspace will get whatever CPUs fit, and can then issue another read
for the remainder of the data.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch will create subdirectory according to each flavor of rcu, the new
structure will be:
/debugfs/rcu/ -> rsp_0
-> rsp_1
-> ...
So we can go to '/debugfs/rcu/rsp_0' and get the cpu info of rsp_0 there.
The flavors of RCU are currently rcu_bh, rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The conflicts between kernel/rcutree.h and kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
were due to adjacent insertions and deletions, which were resolved
by simply accepting the changes on both branches.
bigrt.2012.09.23a contains additional commits to reduce scheduling latency
from RCU on huge systems (many hundrends or thousands of CPUs).
doctorture.2012.09.23a contains documentation changes and rcutorture fixes.
fixes.2012.09.23a contains miscellaneous fixes.
hotplug.2012.09.23a contains CPU-hotplug-related changes.
idle.2012.09.23a fixes architectures for which RCU no longer considered
the idle loop to be a quiescent state due to earlier
adaptive-dynticks changes. Affected architectures are alpha,
cris, frv, h8300, m32r, m68k, mn10300, parisc, score, xtensa,
and ia64.
Currently, _rcu_barrier() relies on preempt_disable() to prevent
any CPU from going offline, which in turn depends on CPU hotplug's
use of __stop_machine().
This patch therefore makes _rcu_barrier() use get_online_cpus() to
block CPU-hotplug operations. This has the added benefit of removing
the need for _rcu_barrier() to adopt callbacks: Because CPU-hotplug
operations are excluded, there can be no callbacks to adopt. This
commit simplifies the code accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The current quiescent-state detection algorithm is needlessly
complex. It records the grace-period number corresponding to
the quiescent state at the time of the quiescent state, which
works, but it seems better to simply erase any record of previous
quiescent states at the time that the CPU notices the new grace
period. This has the further advantage of removing another piece
of RCU for which lockless reasoning is required.
Therefore, this commit makes this change.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Moving quiescent-state forcing into a kthread dispenses with the need
for the ->n_rp_need_fqs field, so this commit removes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Although the C language allows you to break strings across lines, doing
this makes it hard for people to find the Linux kernel code corresponding
to a given console message. This commit therefore fixes broken strings
throughout RCU's source code.
Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
