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Paul E. McKenney b2b00ddf19 rcu: React to callback overload by aggressively seeking quiescent states
In default configutions, RCU currently waits at least 100 milliseconds
before asking cond_resched() and/or resched_rcu() for help seeking
quiescent states to end a grace period.  But 100 milliseconds can be
one good long time during an RCU callback flood, for example, as can
happen when user processes repeatedly open and close files in a tight
loop.  These 100-millisecond gaps in successive grace periods during a
callback flood can result in excessive numbers of callbacks piling up,
unnecessarily increasing memory footprint.

This commit therefore asks cond_resched() and/or resched_rcu() for help
as early as the first FQS scan when at least one of the CPUs has more
than 20,000 callbacks queued, a number that can be changed using the new
rcutree.qovld kernel boot parameter.  An auxiliary qovld_calc variable
is used to avoid acquisition of locks that have not yet been initialized.
Early tests indicate that this reduces the RCU-callback memory footprint
during rcutorture floods by from 50% to 4x, depending on configuration.

Reported-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Fix bug located by Qian Cai. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
2020-02-20 16:00:20 -08:00
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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