tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU
In recent tests with IRQ on/off tracepoints, a large performance overhead ~10% is noticed when running hackbench. This is root caused to calls to rcu_irq_enter_irqson and rcu_irq_exit_irqson from the tracepoint code. Following a long discussion on the list [1] about this, we concluded that srcu is a better alternative for use during rcu idle. Although it does involve extra barriers, its lighter than the sched-rcu version which has to do additional RCU calls to notify RCU idle about entry into RCU sections. In this patch, we change the underlying implementation of the trace_*_rcuidle API to use SRCU. This has shown to improve performance alot for the high frequency irq enable/disable tracepoints. Test: Tested idle and preempt/irq tracepoints. Here are some performance numbers: With a run of the following 30 times on a single core x86 Qemu instance with 1GB memory: hackbench -g 4 -f 2 -l 3000 Completion times in seconds. CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y. No patches (without this series) Mean: 3.048 Median: 3.025 Std Dev: 0.064 With Lockdep using irq tracepoints with RCU implementation: Mean: 3.451 (-11.66 %) Median: 3.447 (-12.22%) Std Dev: 0.049 With Lockdep using irq tracepoints with SRCU implementation (this series): Mean: 3.020 (I would consider the improvement against the "without this series" case as just noise). Median: 3.013 Std Dev: 0.033 [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10344297/ [remove rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace as its the equivalent of preempt_disable_notrace and is unnecessary to call in tracepoint code] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180730222423.196630-3-joel@joelfernandes.org Cleaned-up-by:Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by:
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by:
Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> [ Simplified WARN_ON_ONCE() ] Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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