* Robin Holt <h...@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:59:34PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Russ Anderson <r...@sgi.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, I have a test patch that replaces for_each_online_cpu(cpu) with a
> > > cpu
> > > bitmask in disable_nonboot_cpus(). The lower level routines already take
> > > a
> > > bitmask. It allows __stop_machine() to be called just once. That change
> > > reduces shutdown time on a 1024 cpu machine from 16 minutes 4 minutes.
> > > Significant improvement, but not good enough.
> > >
> > > The next significant bottleneck is __cpu_notify(). Tried creating worker
> > > threads to parallelize the shutdown, but the problem is __cpu_notify() is
> > > not
> > > thread safe. Putting a lock around it caused all the worker threads to
> > > fight
> > > over the lock.
> >
> > 4 minutes bootup is 240 seconds, with 1024 CPUs that's about 240 msecs per
> > CPU.
> >
> > That sounds a lot, given that unlike bootup there's not much real work to
> > be done
> > during shutdown - we don't initialize anything, etc.
> >
> > Maybe much of those 240 msecs are spent in some stupid udelay loop or so,
> > which
> > could be made parallel?
> >
> > Would it be possible to create a 'reboot but stop at the end and reactivate
> > all
> > CPUs again' reboot flag, so that it can all be NMI-profiled, to see where
> > the true
> > bottleneck is? A naked disable_nonboot_cpus() call in essence.
>
> What, exactly, are you proposing with the NMI profiling? [...]
I'm proposing to make 'reboot' overhead profilable, via a debug hack:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/magic_dont_fully_reboot_flag
perf record reboot
perf is using NMIs to profile - and since much of cpu_down() is with irqs
disabled, NMI profiling would be needed to see inside the overhead.
(Assuming the 240 msecs is CPU overhead, not waiting for some IRQ/IPI event.)
Thanks,
Ingo
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