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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4] rcu: Speed up calling of RCU tasks callbacks
On Thu, 24 May 2018 16:19:18 -0700
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 06:49:46PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> >
> > Joel Fernandes found that the synchronize_rcu_tasks() was taking a
> > significant amount of time. He demonstrated it with the following test:
> >
> > # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
> > # while [ 1 ]; do x=1; done &
> > # echo '__schedule_bug:traceon' > set_ftrace_filter
> > # time echo '!__schedule_bug:traceon' > set_ftrace_filter;
> >
> > real 0m1.064s
> > user 0m0.000s
> > sys 0m0.004s
> >
> > Where it takes a little over a second to perform the synchronize,
> > because there's a loop that waits 1 second at a time for tasks to get
> > through their quiescent points when there's a task that must be waited
> > for.
> >
> > After discussion we came up with a simple way to wait for holdouts but
> > increase the time for each iteration of the loop but no more than a
> > full second.
> >
> > With the new patch we have:
> >
> > # time echo '!__schedule_bug:traceon' > set_ftrace_filter;
> >
> > real 0m0.131s
> > user 0m0.000s
> > sys 0m0.004s
> >
> > Which drops it down to 13% of what the original wait time was.
>
> Should be 90% of original?

That would be if I said "drops it down X" but I said "drops it down to
X of what the original wait time was". And 0.131 is 13% of 1.064. :-)

> Other than minor change log change, looks good to me:
>
> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>

Awesome, thanks!

-- Steve

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