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From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	rcu@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -rcu dev 1/2] Revert b8c17e6664c4 ("rcu: Maintain special bits at bottom of ->dynticks counter")
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 13:26:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190906172642.GB40876@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190906171646.GI4051@linux.ibm.com>

On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 10:16:47AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 12:57:51PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 08:27:53AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 08:21:44AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 11:08:06AM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 08:01:37PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > > > > [snip] 
> > > > > > > > > @@ -3004,7 +3007,7 @@ static int rcu_pending(void)
> > > > > > > > >  		return 0;
> > > > > > > > >  
> > > > > > > > >  	/* Is the RCU core waiting for a quiescent state from this CPU? */
> > > > > > > > > -	if (rdp->core_needs_qs && !rdp->cpu_no_qs.b.norm)
> > > > > > > > > +	if (READ_ONCE(rdp->core_needs_qs) && !rdp->cpu_no_qs.b.norm)
> > > > > > > > >  		return 1;
> > > > > > > > >  
> > > > > > > > >  	/* Does this CPU have callbacks ready to invoke? */
> > > > > > > > > @@ -3244,7 +3247,6 @@ int rcutree_prepare_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
> > > > > > > > >  	rdp->gp_seq = rnp->gp_seq;
> > > > > > > > >  	rdp->gp_seq_needed = rnp->gp_seq;
> > > > > > > > >  	rdp->cpu_no_qs.b.norm = true;
> > > > > > > > > -	rdp->core_needs_qs = false;
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > How about calling the new hint-clearing function here as well? Just for
> > > > > > > > robustness and consistency purposes?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > This and the next function are both called during a CPU-hotplug online
> > > > > > > operation, so there is little robustness or consistency to be had by
> > > > > > > doing it twice.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Ok, sorry I missed you are clearing it below in the next function. That's
> > > > > > fine with me.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This patch looks good to me and I am Ok with merging of these changes into
> > > > > > the original patch with my authorship as you mentioned. Or if you wanted to
> > > > > > be author, that's fine too :)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Paul, does it make sense to clear these urgency hints in rcu_qs() as well?
> > > > > After all, we are clearing atleast one urgency hint there: the
> > > > > rcu_read_unlock_special::need_qs bit.
> > 
> > Makes sense.
> > 
> > > > We certainly don't want to turn off the scheduling-clock interrupt until
> > > > after the quiescent state has been reported to the RCU core.  And it might
> > > > still be useful to have a heavy quiescent state because the grace-period
> > > > kthread can detect that.  Just in case the CPU that just called rcu_qs()
> > > > is slow about actually reporting that quiescent state to the RCU core.
> > > 
> > > Hmmm...  Should ->need_qs ever be cleared from FQS to begin with?
> > 
> > I did not see the FQS loop clearing ->need_qs in the rcu_read_unlock_special
> > union after looking for a few minutes. Could you clarify which path this?
> > 
> > Or do you mean ->core_needs_qs? If so, I feel the FQS loop should clear it as
> > I think your patch does, since the FQS loop is essentially doing heavy-weight
> > RCU core processing right?
> > 
> > Also, where does FQS loop clear rdp.cpu_no_qs? Shouldn't it clear that as
> > well for the dyntick-idle CPUs?
> 
> Synchronization?

Didn't follow. Probably I am asking silly questions. There's too many hints
so it is confusing. I will trace this out later and study it more.

Doing by best,  ;-)

thanks,

 - Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-06 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-30 16:23 [PATCH -rcu dev 1/2] Revert b8c17e6664c4 ("rcu: Maintain special bits at bottom of ->dynticks counter") Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-30 16:23 ` [PATCH -rcu dev 2/2] rcu/dyntick-idle: Add better tracing Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-09-03 20:04   ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-04  0:46     ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-03 20:02 ` [PATCH -rcu dev 1/2] Revert b8c17e6664c4 ("rcu: Maintain special bits at bottom of ->dynticks counter") Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-04  4:59   ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-04 10:12     ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-04 13:54       ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-04 23:13         ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-05 15:36           ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-05 16:43             ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-06  0:01               ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-06 15:08                 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-06 15:21                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-06 15:27                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-06 16:57                       ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-06 17:16                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-06 17:26                           ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2019-09-07 17:28                           ` Joel Fernandes

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