Re: [PATCH 00/21] rcu/context-tracking: Merge RCU eqs-dynticks counter to context tracking v2

[Nicolas Saenz Julienne]

On Tue, 2022-05-03 at 12:00 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> This mixes up the RCU dynticks counter and the context tracking state
> updates into a single atomic instruction. This may serve several
> purposes:
> 
> 1) Improve CPU isolation with deferring some disturbances until sensitive
>    userspace workload completes and goes to the kernel. This can take
>    several forms, for example smp_call_function_housekeeping() or
>    on_each_housekeeping_cpu() to enqueue and execute work on all
>    housekeeping CPUs. Then an atomic operation on ct->state can defer
>    the work on nohz_full CPUs until they run in kernel (or IPI them
>    if they are in kernel mode), see this proposal by Peter:
>    https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210929151723.162004989@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/#r
> 
> 2) Unearth sysidle (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git/commit/?h=sysidle.2017.05.11a&id=fe5ac724d81a3c7803e60c2232718f212f3f38d4)
>    This feature allowed to shutdown the tick on the last housekeeping
>    CPU once the rest of the system is fully idle. We needed some proper
>    fully ordered context tracking for that.
> 
> Inspired by Peterz: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210929151723.162004989@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Passed 100 hours of TREE01.
> 
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Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

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Nicolás Sáenz