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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-04-19 12:20:14 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-04-24 20:54:52 -0700
commit8932a63d5edb02f714d50c26583152fe0a97a69c (patch)
treeec71159908f1a78eb21e736d284ffe7ed7584b6c /kernel/rcutree.h
parentd8169d4c369e8aa2fda10df705a4957331b5a4db (diff)
downloadlinux-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.h10
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)