On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 03:12:01PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Josh Triplett" <j...@joshtriplett.org>
> > To: "Peter Zijlstra" <pet...@infradead.org>
> > Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
> > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mi...@kernel.org,
> > la...@cn.fujitsu.com, dipan...@in.ibm.com, a...@linux-foundation.org,
> > "mathieu desnoyers"
> > <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com>, t...@linutronix.de, rost...@goodmis.org,
> > dhowe...@redhat.com, eduma...@google.com,
> > dvh...@linux.intel.com, fweis...@gmail.com, o...@redhat.com, "bobby prani"
> > <bobby.pr...@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 1:04:28 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/4] Programmatic nestable expedited grace
> > periods
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 05:54:09PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 08:37:37AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:11:07AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > > Does it really make a machine boot much faster? Why are people using
> > > > > synchronous gp primitives if they care about speed? Should we not fix
> > > > > that instead?
> > > >
> > > > The report I heard was that it provided 10-15% faster boot times.
> > >
> > > That's not insignificant; got more details? I think we should really
> > > look at why people are using the sync primitives.
> >
> > Paul, what do you think about adding a compile-time debug option to
> > synchronize_rcu() that causes it to capture the time on entry and exit
> > and print the duration together with the file:line of the caller?
> > Similar to initcall_debug, but for blocking calls to synchronize_rcu().
> > Put that together with initcall_debug, and you'd have a pretty good idea
> > of where that holds up boot.
> >
> > We do want early boot to run as asynchronously as possible, and to avoid
> > having later bits of boot waiting on a synchronize_rcu from earlier bits
> > of boot. Switching a caller over to call_rcu() doesn't actually help if
> > it still has to finish a grace period before it can allow later bits to
> > run. Ideally, we ought to be able to work out the "depth" of boot in
> > grace-periods.
> >
> > Has anyone wired initcall_debug up to a bootchart-like graph?
>
> The information about begin/end of synchronize_rcu, as well as begin/end
> of rcu_barrier() seems to be very relevant here. This should perhaps be
> covered tracepoints ? Isn't it already ?
Good points, but they did measure this somehow. Wouldn't some ftrace
magic get this result?
Thanx, Paul
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
> >
> > - Josh Triplett
> >
>
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> Mathieu Desnoyers
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