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    SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu] rcu: direct algorithmic SRCU implementation
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    On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 18:09 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
    > 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.

    Yeah, getting rid of that second memory barrier in srcu_read_lock() is
    pure magic :-)

    > This implementation has passed moderate rcutorture testing on both 32-bit
    > x86 and 64-bit Power. A call_srcu() function will be present in a later
    > version of this patch.

    Goodness ;-)

    > @@ -131,10 +214,11 @@ int __srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp)
    > int idx;
    >
    > preempt_disable();
    > - idx = sp->completed & 0x1;
    > - barrier(); /* ensure compiler looks -once- at sp->completed. */
    > - per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, smp_processor_id())->c[idx]++;
    > - srcu_barrier(); /* ensure compiler won't misorder critical section. */
    > + idx = rcu_dereference_index_check(sp->completed,
    > + rcu_read_lock_sched_held()) & 0x1;
    > + ACCESS_ONCE(per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, smp_processor_id())->c[idx]) +=
    > + SRCU_USAGE_COUNT + 1;
    > + smp_mb(); /* B */ /* Avoid leaking the critical section. */
    > preempt_enable();
    > return idx;
    > }

    You could use __this_cpu_* muck to shorten some of that.

    Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>


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