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| author | Kalesh Singh | 2022-04-08 17:35:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney | 2022-05-11 11:47:10 -0700 |
| commit | 9621fbee44df940e2e1b94b0676460a538dffefa (patch) | |
| tree | 4ae910165cef0927d5c0e6ad1555427537ed20b6 /Documentation | |
| parent | 28b3ae426598e722cf5d5ab9cc7038791b955a56 (diff) | |
rcu: Move expedited grace period (GP) work to RT kthread_worker
Enabling CONFIG_RCU_BOOST did not reduce RCU expedited grace-period
latency because its workqueues run at SCHED_OTHER, and thus can be
delayed by normal processes. This commit avoids these delays by moving
the expedited GP work items to a real-time-priority kthread_worker.
This option is controlled by CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD and disabled by
default on PREEMPT_RT=y kernels which disable expedited grace periods
after boot by unconditionally setting rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot=1.
The results were evaluated on arm64 Android devices (6GB ram) running
5.10 kernel, and capturing trace data in critical user-level code.
The table below shows the resulting order-of-magnitude improvements
in synchronize_rcu_expedited() latency:
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| | workqueues | kthread_worker | Diff |
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| Count | 725 | 688 | |
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| Min Duration (ns) | 326 | 447 | 37.12% |
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| Q1 (ns) | 39,428 | 38,971 | -1.16% |
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| Q2 - Median (ns) | 98,225 | 69,743 | -29.00% |
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| Q3 (ns) | 342,122 | 126,638 | -62.98% |
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| Max Duration (ns) | 372,766,967 | 2,329,671 | -99.38% |
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| Avg Duration (ns) | 2,746,353 | 151,242 | -94.49% |
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| Standard Deviation (ns) | 19,327,765 | 294,408 | |
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The below table show the range of maximums/minimums for
synchronize_rcu_expedited() latency from all experiments:
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| | workqueues | kthread_worker | Diff |
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| Total No. of Experiments | 25 | 23 | |
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| Largest Maximum (ns) | 372,766,967 | 2,329,671 | -99.38% |
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| Smallest Maximum (ns) | 38,819 | 86,954 | 124.00% |
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| Range of Maximums (ns) | 372,728,148 | 2,242,717 | |
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| Largest Minimum (ns) | 88,623 | 27,588 | -68.87% |
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| Smallest Minimum (ns) | 326 | 447 | 37.12% |
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| Range of Minimums (ns) | 88,297 | 27,141 | |
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Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Reported-by: Wei Wang <wvw@google.com>
Tested-by: Kyle Lin <kylelin@google.com>
Tested-by: Chunwei Lu <chunweilu@google.com>
Tested-by: Lulu Wang <luluw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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