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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-04-19 12:20:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-04-24 20:54:52 -0700 |
| commit | 8932a63d5edb02f714d50c26583152fe0a97a69c (patch) | |
| tree | ec71159908f1a78eb21e736d284ffe7ed7584b6c /kernel/rcutree.h | |
| parent | d8169d4c369e8aa2fda10df705a4957331b5a4db (diff) | |
| download | linux-8932a63d5edb02f714d50c26583152fe0a97a69c.tar.bz2 | |
rcu: Reduce cache-miss initialization latencies for large systems
Commit #0209f649 (rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout) set an upper
limit of 16 on the leaf-level fanout for the rcu_node tree. This was
needed to reduce lock contention that was induced by the synchronization
of scheduling-clock interrupts, which was in turn needed to improve
energy efficiency for moderate-sized lightly loaded servers.
However, reducing the leaf-level fanout means that there are more
leaf-level rcu_node structures in the tree, which in turn means that
RCU's grace-period initialization incurs more cache misses. This is
not a problem on moderate-sized servers with only a few tens of CPUs,
but becomes a major source of real-time latency spikes on systems with
many hundreds of CPUs. In addition, the workloads running on these large
systems tend to be CPU-bound, which eliminates the energy-efficiency
advantages of synchronizing scheduling-clock interrupts. Therefore,
these systems need maximal values for the rcu_node leaf-level fanout.
This commit addresses this problem by introducing a new kernel parameter
named RCU_FANOUT_LEAF that directly controls the leaf-level fanout.
This parameter defaults to 16 to handle the common case of a moderate
sized lightly loaded servers, but may be set higher on larger systems.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index cdd1be0a4072..a905c200405c 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -29,18 +29,14 @@ #include <linux/seqlock.h> /* - * Define shape of hierarchy based on NR_CPUS and CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT. + * Define shape of hierarchy based on NR_CPUS, CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, and + * CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF. * In theory, it should be possible to add more levels straightforwardly. * In practice, this did work well going from three levels to four. * Of course, your mileage may vary. */ #define MAX_RCU_LVLS 4 -#if CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT > 16 -#define RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 16 -#else /* #if CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT > 16 */ -#define RCU_FANOUT_LEAF (CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT) -#endif /* #else #if CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT > 16 */ -#define RCU_FANOUT_1 (RCU_FANOUT_LEAF) +#define RCU_FANOUT_1 (CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF) #define RCU_FANOUT_2 (RCU_FANOUT_1 * CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT) #define RCU_FANOUT_3 (RCU_FANOUT_2 * CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT) #define RCU_FANOUT_4 (RCU_FANOUT_3 * CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT) |