rcu: Direct algorithmic SRCU implementation
The current implementation of synchronize_srcu_expedited() can cause
severe OS jitter due to its use of synchronize_sched(), which in turn
invokes try_stop_cpus(), which causes each CPU to be sent an IPI.
This can result in severe performance degradation for real-time workloads
and especially for short-interation-length HPC workloads. Furthermore,
because only one instance of try_stop_cpus() can be making forward progress
at a given time, only one instance of synchronize_srcu_expedited() can
make forward progress at a time, even if they are all operating on
distinct srcu_struct structures.
This commit, inspired by an earlier implementation by Peter Zijlstra
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/31/211) and by further offline discussions,
takes a strictly algorithmic bits-in-memory approach. This has the
disadvantage of requiring one explicit memory-barrier instruction in
each of srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock(), but on the other hand
completely dispenses with OS jitter and furthermore allows SRCU to be
used freely by CPUs that RCU believes to be idle or offline.
The update-side implementation handles the single read-side memory
barrier by rechecking the per-CPU counters after summing them and
by running through the update-side state machine twice.
This implementation has passed moderate rcutorture testing on both
x86 and Power. Also updated to use this_cpu_ptr() instead of per_cpu_ptr(),
as suggested by Peter Zijlstra.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/srcu.h b/include/linux/srcu.h
index d3d5fa5..a478c8e 100644
--- a/include/linux/srcu.h
+++ b/include/linux/srcu.h
@@ -31,13 +31,19 @@
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
struct srcu_struct_array {
- int c[2];
+ unsigned long c[2];
};
+/* Bit definitions for field ->c above and ->snap below. */
+#define SRCU_USAGE_BITS 2
+#define SRCU_REF_MASK (ULONG_MAX >> SRCU_USAGE_BITS)
+#define SRCU_USAGE_COUNT (SRCU_REF_MASK + 1)
+
struct srcu_struct {
- int completed;
+ unsigned completed;
struct srcu_struct_array __percpu *per_cpu_ref;
struct mutex mutex;
+ unsigned long snap[NR_CPUS];
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
struct lockdep_map dep_map;
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC */