Re: [PATCH v2] rcu: Allow to eliminate softirq processing from rcutree

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rcu: Allow to eliminate softirq processing from rcutree
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:32:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190320113219.d6c3gouqbnsnl5nj@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190319114419.qlsw3i5bmndoyvao@linutronix.de>

On 2019-03-19 12:44:19 [+0100], To Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> index 0f31b79eb6761..0a719f726e149 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
…
> +/*
> + * Spawn per-CPU RCU core processing kthreads.
> + */
> +static int __init rcu_spawn_core_kthreads(void)
> +{
> +	int cpu;
> +
> +	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> +		per_cpu(rcu_data.rcu_cpu_has_work, cpu) = 0;
> +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RCU_BOOST) && !rcu_softirq_enabled)

and this needs to become
-       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RCU_BOOST) && !rcu_softirq_enabled)
+       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RCU_BOOST) && rcu_softirq_enabled)

With this change and hunk that I just sent to Joel I get thee three RCU
modes with and without BOOST booted.

Unless there is something (and Paul agrees that the Joel hunk is
correct) I would post a v3 with those changes included.

> +		return 0;
> +	WARN_ONCE(smpboot_register_percpu_thread(&rcu_cpu_thread_spec), "%s: Could not start rcub kthread, OOM is now expected behavior\n", __func__);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +early_initcall(rcu_spawn_core_kthreads);

Sebastian