mainlining shenanigans
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This commit takes off the training wheels and relies only on scanning currently running tasks and tasks that have blocked or been preempted within their current RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical section. Before this commit, the time complexity of an RCU Tasks Trace grace period is O(T), where T is the number of tasks. After this commit, this time complexity is O(C+B), where C is the number of CPUs and B is the number of tasks that have blocked (or been preempted) at least once during their current RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical sections. Of course, if all tasks have blocked (or been preempted) at least once during their current RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical sections, this is still O(T), but current expectations are that RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical section will be short and that there will normally not be large numbers of tasks blocked within such a critical section. Dave Marchevsky kindly measured the effects of this commit on the RCU Tasks Trace grace-period latency and the rcu_tasks_trace_kthread task's CPU consumption per RCU Tasks Trace grace period over the course of a fixed test, all in milliseconds: Before After GP latency 22.3 ms stddev > 0.1 17.0 ms stddev < 0.1 GP CPU 2.3 ms stddev 0.3 1.1 ms stddev 0.2 This was on a system with 15,000 tasks, so it is reasonable to expect much larger savings on the systems on which this issue was first noted, given that they sport well in excess of 100,000 tasks. CPU consumption was measured using profiling techniques. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Tested-by: Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com> |
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