linux/arch/riscv
Linus Torvalds 9244724fbf A large update for SMP management:
- Parallel CPU bringup
 
     The reason why people are interested in parallel bringup is to shorten
     the (kexec) reboot time of cloud servers to reduce the downtime of the
     VM tenants.
 
     The current fully serialized bringup does the following per AP:
 
       1) Prepare callbacks (allocate, intialize, create threads)
       2) Kick the AP alive (e.g. INIT/SIPI on x86)
       3) Wait for the AP to report alive state
       4) Let the AP continue through the atomic bringup
       5) Let the AP run the threaded bringup to full online state
 
     There are two significant delays:
 
       #3 The time for an AP to report alive state in start_secondary() on
          x86 has been measured in the range between 350us and 3.5ms
          depending on vendor and CPU type, BIOS microcode size etc.
 
       #4 The atomic bringup does the microcode update. This has been
          measured to take up to ~8ms on the primary threads depending on
          the microcode patch size to apply.
 
     On a two socket SKL server with 56 cores (112 threads) the boot CPU
     spends on current mainline about 800ms busy waiting for the APs to come
     up and apply microcode. That's more than 80% of the actual onlining
     procedure.
 
     This can be reduced significantly by splitting the bringup mechanism
     into two parts:
 
       1) Run the prepare callbacks and kick the AP alive for each AP which
       	 needs to be brought up.
 
 	 The APs wake up, do their firmware initialization and run the low
       	 level kernel startup code including microcode loading in parallel
       	 up to the first synchronization point. (#1 and #2 above)
 
       2) Run the rest of the bringup code strictly serialized per CPU
       	 (#3 - #5 above) as it's done today.
 
 	 Parallelizing that stage of the CPU bringup might be possible in
 	 theory, but it's questionable whether required surgery would be
 	 justified for a pretty small gain.
 
     If the system is large enough the first AP is already waiting at the
     first synchronization point when the boot CPU finished the wake-up of
     the last AP. That reduces the AP bringup time on that SKL from ~800ms
     to ~80ms, i.e. by a factor ~10x.
 
     The actual gain varies wildly depending on the system, CPU, microcode
     patch size and other factors. There are some opportunities to reduce
     the overhead further, but that needs some deep surgery in the x86 CPU
     bringup code.
 
     For now this is only enabled on x86, but the core functionality
     obviously works for all SMP capable architectures.
 
   - Enhancements for SMP function call tracing so it is possible to locate
     the scheduling and the actual execution points. That allows to measure
     IPI delivery time precisely.
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Merge tag 'smp-core-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull SMP updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A large update for SMP management:

   - Parallel CPU bringup

     The reason why people are interested in parallel bringup is to
     shorten the (kexec) reboot time of cloud servers to reduce the
     downtime of the VM tenants.

     The current fully serialized bringup does the following per AP:

       1) Prepare callbacks (allocate, intialize, create threads)
       2) Kick the AP alive (e.g. INIT/SIPI on x86)
       3) Wait for the AP to report alive state
       4) Let the AP continue through the atomic bringup
       5) Let the AP run the threaded bringup to full online state

     There are two significant delays:

       #3 The time for an AP to report alive state in start_secondary()
          on x86 has been measured in the range between 350us and 3.5ms
          depending on vendor and CPU type, BIOS microcode size etc.

       #4 The atomic bringup does the microcode update. This has been
          measured to take up to ~8ms on the primary threads depending
          on the microcode patch size to apply.

     On a two socket SKL server with 56 cores (112 threads) the boot CPU
     spends on current mainline about 800ms busy waiting for the APs to
     come up and apply microcode. That's more than 80% of the actual
     onlining procedure.

     This can be reduced significantly by splitting the bringup
     mechanism into two parts:

       1) Run the prepare callbacks and kick the AP alive for each AP
          which needs to be brought up.

          The APs wake up, do their firmware initialization and run the
          low level kernel startup code including microcode loading in
          parallel up to the first synchronization point. (#1 and #2
          above)

       2) Run the rest of the bringup code strictly serialized per CPU
          (#3 - #5 above) as it's done today.

          Parallelizing that stage of the CPU bringup might be possible
          in theory, but it's questionable whether required surgery
          would be justified for a pretty small gain.

     If the system is large enough the first AP is already waiting at
     the first synchronization point when the boot CPU finished the
     wake-up of the last AP. That reduces the AP bringup time on that
     SKL from ~800ms to ~80ms, i.e. by a factor ~10x.

     The actual gain varies wildly depending on the system, CPU,
     microcode patch size and other factors. There are some
     opportunities to reduce the overhead further, but that needs some
     deep surgery in the x86 CPU bringup code.

     For now this is only enabled on x86, but the core functionality
     obviously works for all SMP capable architectures.

   - Enhancements for SMP function call tracing so it is possible to
     locate the scheduling and the actual execution points. That allows
     to measure IPI delivery time precisely"

* tag 'smp-core-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  trace,smp: Add tracepoints for scheduling remotelly called functions
  trace,smp: Add tracepoints around remotelly called functions
  MAINTAINERS: Add CPU HOTPLUG entry
  x86/smpboot: Fix the parallel bringup decision
  x86/realmode: Make stack lock work in trampoline_compat()
  x86/smp: Initialize cpu_primary_thread_mask late
  cpu/hotplug: Fix off by one in cpuhp_bringup_mask()
  x86/apic: Fix use of X{,2}APIC_ENABLE in asm with older binutils
  x86/smpboot/64: Implement arch_cpuhp_init_parallel_bringup() and enable it
  x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs
  x86/smpboot: Implement a bit spinlock to protect the realmode stack
  x86/apic: Save the APIC virtual base address
  cpu/hotplug: Allow "parallel" bringup up to CPUHP_BP_KICK_AP_STATE
  x86/apic: Provide cpu_primary_thread mask
  x86/smpboot: Enable split CPU startup
  cpu/hotplug: Provide a split up CPUHP_BRINGUP mechanism
  cpu/hotplug: Reset task stack state in _cpu_up()
  cpu/hotplug: Remove unused state functions
  riscv: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization
  parisc: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization
  ...
2023-06-26 13:59:56 -07:00
..
boot RISC-V Patches for the 6.4 Merge Window, Part 1 2023-04-28 16:55:39 -07:00
configs Remove orphaned CONFIG_PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT 2023-03-27 13:12:09 +02:00
errata riscv: Fix relocatable kernels with early alternatives using -fno-pie 2023-05-31 07:07:07 -07:00
include A large update for SMP management: 2023-06-26 13:59:56 -07:00
kernel A large update for SMP management: 2023-06-26 13:59:56 -07:00
kvm RISC-V Patches for the 6.4 Merge Window, Part 2 2023-05-05 12:23:33 -07:00
lib riscv: Allow to downgrade paging mode from the command line 2023-04-26 07:30:52 -07:00
mm riscv: Check the virtual alignment before choosing a map size 2023-06-07 07:14:00 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2023-03-09 22:22:11 -08:00
purgatory riscv/purgatory: remove PGO flags 2023-06-12 11:31:51 -07:00
tools riscv: Check relocations at compile time 2023-04-19 07:46:32 -07:00
Kbuild riscv: move errata/ and kvm/ builds to arch/riscv/Kbuild 2022-06-01 22:26:32 -07:00
Kconfig A large update for SMP management: 2023-06-26 13:59:56 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Kconfig.errata Merge patch series "RISC-V: Fixes for riscv_has_extension[un]likely()'s alternative dependency" 2023-03-29 12:26:38 -07:00
Kconfig.socs RISC-V Patches for the 6.3 Merge Window, Part 1 2023-02-25 11:14:08 -08:00
Makefile RISC-V Patches for the 6.4 Merge Window, Part 1 2023-04-28 16:55:39 -07:00
Makefile.postlink riscv: Use --emit-relocs in order to move .rela.dyn in init 2023-04-19 07:46:33 -07:00