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This benchmark measures grace period latency and kthread cpu usage of RCU Tasks Trace when many processes are creating/deleting BPF local_storage. Intent here is to quantify improvement on these metrics after Paul's recent RCU Tasks patches [0]. Specifically, fork 15k tasks which call a bpf prog that creates/destroys task local_storage and sleep in a loop, resulting in many call_rcu_tasks_trace calls. To determine grace period latency, trace time elapsed between rcu_tasks_trace_pregp_step and rcu_tasks_trace_postgp; for cpu usage look at rcu_task_trace_kthread's stime in /proc/PID/stat. On my virtualized test environment (Skylake, 8 cpus) benchmark results demonstrate significant improvement: BEFORE Paul's patches: SUMMARY tasks_trace grace period latency avg 22298.551 us stddev 1302.165 us SUMMARY ticks per tasks_trace grace period avg 2.291 stddev 0.324 AFTER Paul's patches: SUMMARY tasks_trace grace period latency avg 16969.197 us stddev 2525.053 us SUMMARY ticks per tasks_trace grace period avg 1.146 stddev 0.178 Note that since these patches are not in bpf-next benchmarking was done by cherry-picking this patch onto rcu tree. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/20220620225402.GA3842369@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1/ Signed-off-by: Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220705190018.3239050-1-davemarchevsky@fb.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.