On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:22:07AM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
>
> This is required for several usecases identified. One of them being tracing
> how
> the segmented callback list changes. Tracing this has identified issues in RCU
> code in the past.
>
> >From Paul:
> Another use case is of course more accurately determining whether a given
> CPU's
> large pile of callbacks can be best served by making grace periods go faster,
> invoking callbacks more vigorously, or both. It should also be possible to
> simplify some of the callback handling a bit, given that some of the unnatural
> acts are due to there having been no per-batch counts.
>
> Revision history:
> v6: Fixed TREE04, and restored older logic to ensure rcu_barrier works.
>
> v5: Various changes, bug fixes. Discovery of rcu_barrier issue.
>
> v4: Restructured rcu_do_batch() and segcblist merging to avoid issues.
> Fixed minor nit from Davidlohr.
> v1->v3: minor nits.
> (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200719034210.2382053-1-j...@joelfernandes.org/)
Looking much improved, thank you!
I have placed these on branch rcu/test in -rcu for testing and inspection.
I had to apply them at b94e6291a208 ("torture: Force weak-hashed pointers
on console log") and cherry-pick them onto the "dev" branch, but it looks
like things worked nicely.
Thanx, Paul
> Joel Fernandes (Google) (4):
> rcu/tree: Make rcu_do_batch count how many callbacks were executed
> rcu/segcblist: Add counters to segcblist datastructure
> rcu/trace: Add tracing for how segcb list changes
> rcu/segcblist: Remove useless rcupdate.h include
>
> include/linux/rcu_segcblist.h | 2 +
> include/trace/events/rcu.h | 25 ++++++
> kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c | 161 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.h | 8 +-
> kernel/rcu/tree.c | 18 ++--
> 5 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.28.0.681.g6f77f65b4e-goog
>
