rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU

Commit ac1bea85781e (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states)
fixed a problem where a CPU looping in the kernel with but one runnable
task would give RCU CPU stall warnings, even if the in-kernel loop
contained cond_resched() calls.  Unfortunately, in so doing, it introduced
performance regressions in Anton Blanchard's will-it-scale "open1" test.
The problem appears to be not so much the increased cond_resched() path
length as an increase in the rate at which grace periods complete, which
increased per-update grace-period overhead.

This commit takes a different approach to fixing this bug, mainly by
moving the RCU-visible quiescent state from cond_resched() to
rcu_note_context_switch(), and by further reducing the check to a
simple non-zero test of a single per-CPU variable.  However, this
approach requires that the force-quiescent-state processing send
resched IPIs to the offending CPUs.  These will be sent only once
the grace period has reached an age specified by the boot/sysfs
parameter rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs, or once the grace period
reaches an age halfway to the point at which RCU CPU stall warnings
will be emitted, whichever comes first.

Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Made rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() as suggested by the
  ktest build robot.  Also fixed smp_mb() comment as noted by
  Oleg Nesterov. ]

Merge with e552592e (Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 13bbfbde41b9..6a94cc8b1ca0 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
 #include <linux/debugobjects.h>
 #include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
-#include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <asm/barrier.h>
 
 extern int rcu_expedited; /* for sysctl */
@@ -300,41 +299,6 @@ bool __rcu_is_watching(void);
 #endif /* #if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC) || defined(CONFIG_RCU_TRACE) || defined(CONFIG_SMP) */
 
 /*
- * Hooks for cond_resched() and friends to avoid RCU CPU stall warnings.
- */
-
-#define RCU_COND_RESCHED_LIM 256	/* ms vs. 100s of ms. */
-DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, rcu_cond_resched_count);
-void rcu_resched(void);
-
-/*
- * Is it time to report RCU quiescent states?
- *
- * Note unsynchronized access to rcu_cond_resched_count.  Yes, we might
- * increment some random CPU's count, and possibly also load the result from
- * yet another CPU's count.  We might even clobber some other CPU's attempt
- * to zero its counter.  This is all OK because the goal is not precision,
- * but rather reasonable amortization of rcu_note_context_switch() overhead
- * and extremely high probability of avoiding RCU CPU stall warnings.
- * Note that this function has to be preempted in just the wrong place,
- * many thousands of times in a row, for anything bad to happen.
- */
-static inline bool rcu_should_resched(void)
-{
-	return raw_cpu_inc_return(rcu_cond_resched_count) >=
-	       RCU_COND_RESCHED_LIM;
-}
-
-/*
- * Report quiscent states to RCU if it is time to do so.
- */
-static inline void rcu_cond_resched(void)
-{
-	if (unlikely(rcu_should_resched()))
-		rcu_resched();
-}
-
-/*
  * Infrastructure to implement the synchronize_() primitives in
  * TREE_RCU and rcu_barrier_() primitives in TINY_RCU.
  */