From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, kim.phillips@amd.com, arjan@linux.intel.com,
mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
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hewenliang4@huawei.com, thomas.lendacky@amd.com,
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fam.zheng@bytedance.com, punit.agrawal@bytedance.com,
simon.evans@bytedance.com, liangma@liangbit.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/8] Parallel CPU bringup for x86_64
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 12:53:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EAAA15B0-D402-4EFB-BB65-2E6457698C1C@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMzpN2gEeNY87+ywgizusPVG2fLiRx3v__3Bmqjo_eJLv+5k7Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 22 February 2023 12:08:04 GMT, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 5:44 AM David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2023-02-15 at 14:54 +0000, Usama Arif wrote:
>> > The main change over v8 is dropping the patch to avoid repeated saves of MTRR
>> > at boot time. It didn't make a difference to smpboot time and is independent
>> > of parallel CPU bringup, so if needed can be explored in a separate patchset.
>> >
>> > The patches have also been rebased to v6.2-rc8 and retested and the
>> > improvement in boot time is the same as v8.
>>
>> Thanks for picking this up, Usama.
>>
>> So the next thing that might be worth looking at is allowing the APs
>> all to be running their hotplug thread simultaneously, bringing
>> themselves from CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU to CPUHP_AP_ONLINE. This series eats
>> the initial INIT/SIPI/SIPI latency, but if there's any significant time
>> in the AP hotplug thread, that could be worth parallelising.
>>
>> There may be further wins in the INIT/SIPI/SIPI too. Currently we
>> process each CPU at a time, sending INIT, SIPI, waiting 10µs and
>> sending another SIPI.
>>
>> What if we sent the first INIT+SIPI to all CPUs, then did another pass
>> sending another SIPI only to those which hadn't already started running
>> and set their bit in cpu_initialized_mask ?
>>
>> Might not be worth it, and there's an added complexity that they all
>> have to wait for each other (on the real mode trampoline lock) before
>> they can take their turn and get as far as setting their bit in
>> cpu_initialized_mask. So we'd probably end up sending the second SIPI
>> to most of them *anyway*.
>
>Speaking of next steps, I have a followup patchset ready to go that
>removes the global variables initial_stack, initial_gs, and
>early_gdt_descr. Should I send that now or wait until this patchset
>lands in -tip?
Happy either way. Want to send it and we can take a look at whether to work it in with this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-22 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-15 14:54 [PATCH v9 0/8] Parallel CPU bringup for x86_64 Usama Arif
2023-02-15 14:54 ` [PATCH v9 1/8] x86/apic/x2apic: Allow CPU cluster_mask to be populated in parallel Usama Arif
2023-02-16 20:58 ` Kim Phillips
2023-02-15 14:54 ` [PATCH v9 2/8] cpu/hotplug: Move idle_thread_get() to <linux/smpboot.h> Usama Arif
2023-02-15 14:54 ` [PATCH v9 3/8] cpu/hotplug: Add dynamic parallel bringup states before CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU Usama Arif
2023-02-15 14:54 ` [PATCH v9 4/8] x86/smpboot: Reference count on smpboot_setup_warm_reset_vector() Usama Arif
2023-02-15 14:54 ` [PATCH v9 5/8] x86/smpboot: Split up native_cpu_up into separate phases and document them Usama Arif
2023-02-15 14:54 ` [PATCH v9 6/8] x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs Usama Arif
2023-02-15 14:54 ` [PATCH v9 7/8] x86/smpboot: Send INIT/SIPI/SIPI to secondary CPUs in parallel Usama Arif
2023-02-15 14:54 ` [PATCH v9 8/8] x86/smpboot: Serialize topology updates for secondary bringup Usama Arif
2023-02-16 6:34 ` [PATCH v9 0/8] Parallel CPU bringup for x86_64 Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-20 16:08 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-20 16:20 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-20 16:40 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-20 20:31 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-20 21:23 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-20 21:34 ` Piotr Gorski
2023-02-20 21:39 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-20 23:23 ` Kim Phillips
2023-02-20 23:30 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-21 4:20 ` Kim Phillips
2023-02-21 7:16 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-21 7:27 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-21 7:53 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-21 8:05 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-21 8:17 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-21 8:25 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-21 8:35 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-21 8:44 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-21 9:06 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-21 9:49 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-21 10:27 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-21 10:47 ` [External] " Usama Arif
2023-02-21 11:42 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-21 11:54 ` Usama Arif
2023-02-21 13:22 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-21 11:46 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-21 11:49 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-21 12:14 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-21 19:10 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-21 20:04 ` [External] " Usama Arif
2023-02-21 21:04 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-21 21:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-21 21:44 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-21 23:18 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-22 0:00 ` [External] " Usama Arif
2023-02-22 8:19 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-22 9:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-22 9:51 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-22 9:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-20 22:22 ` Piotr Gorski
2023-02-20 22:23 ` [External] " Usama Arif
2023-02-20 22:41 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2023-02-22 10:11 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-22 11:11 ` [External] " Usama Arif
2023-02-22 12:08 ` Brian Gerst
2023-02-22 12:53 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2023-02-22 16:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-23 11:07 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-23 14:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-23 15:12 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-23 19:24 ` [External] " Usama Arif
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