rcu: Reduce synchronize_rcu() latency by reporting GP kthread's CPU QS early
The RCU grace period mechanism uses a two-phase FQS (Force Quiescent
State) design where the first FQS saves dyntick-idle snapshots and
the second FQS compares them. This results in long and unnecessary latency
for synchronize_rcu() on idle systems (two FQS waits of ~3ms each with
1000HZ) whenever one FQS wait sufficed.
Some investigations showed that the GP kthread's CPU is the holdout CPU
a lot of times after the first FQS as - it cannot be detected as "idle"
because it's actively running the FQS scan in the GP kthread.
Therefore, at the end of rcu_gp_init(), immediately report a quiescent
state for the GP kthread's CPU using rcu_qs() + rcu_report_qs_rdp(). The
GP kthread cannot be in an RCU read-side critical section while running
GP initialization, so this is safe and results in significant latency
improvements.
I benchmarked 100 synchronize_rcu() calls with 32 CPUs, 10 runs each
showing significant latency improvements (default settings for fqs jiffies):
Baseline (without fix):
| Run | Mean | Min | Max |
|-----|-----------|----------|-----------|
| 1 | 10.088 ms | 9.989 ms | 18.848 ms |
| 2 | 10.064 ms | 9.982 ms | 16.470 ms |
| 3 | 10.051 ms | 9.988 ms | 15.113 ms |
| 4 | 10.125 ms | 9.929 ms | 22.411 ms |
| 5 | 8.695 ms | 5.996 ms | 15.471 ms |
| 6 | 10.157 ms | 9.977 ms | 25.723 ms |
| 7 | 10.102 ms | 9.990 ms | 20.224 ms |
| 8 | 8.050 ms | 5.985 ms | 10.007 ms |
| 9 | 10.059 ms | 9.978 ms | 15.934 ms |
| 10 | 10.077 ms | 9.984 ms | 17.703 ms |
With fix:
| Run | Mean | Min | Max |
|-----|----------|----------|-----------|
| 1 | 6.027 ms | 5.915 ms | 8.589 ms |
| 2 | 6.032 ms | 5.984 ms | 9.241 ms |
| 3 | 6.010 ms | 5.986 ms | 7.004 ms |
| 4 | 6.076 ms | 5.993 ms | 10.001 ms |
| 5 | 6.084 ms | 5.893 ms | 10.250 ms |
| 6 | 6.034 ms | 5.908 ms | 9.456 ms |
| 7 | 6.051 ms | 5.993 ms | 10.000 ms |
| 8 | 6.057 ms | 5.941 ms | 10.001 ms |
| 9 | 6.016 ms | 5.927 ms | 7.540 ms |
| 10 | 6.036 ms | 5.993 ms | 9.579 ms |
Summary:
- Mean latency: 9.75 ms -> 6.04 ms (38% improvement)
- Max latency: 25.72 ms -> 10.25 ms (60% improvement)
Tested rcutorture TREE and SRCU configurations.
[apply paulmck feedack on moving logic to rcu_gp_init()]
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
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