Re: [tip:core/rcu] Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof"

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:04:06PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 05/19/2011 02:37 PM, tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Commit-ID:  80d02085d99039b3b7f3a73c8896226b0cb1ba07
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/80d02085d99039b3b7f3a73c8896226b0cb1ba07
> > Author:     Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > AuthorDate: Thu, 12 May 2011 01:08:07 -0700
> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > CommitDate: Thu, 19 May 2011 23:25:29 +0200
> > 
> > Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof"
> > 
> > This reverts commit e59fb3120becfb36b22ddb8bd27d065d3cdca499.
> > 
> > This reversion was due to (extreme) boot-time slowdowns on SPARC seen by
> > Yinghai Lu and on x86 by Ingo
> > .
> > This is a non-trivial reversion due to intervening commits.
> > 
> > Conflicts:
> > 
> > 	Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
> > 	kernel/rcutree.c
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/RCU/trace.txt |   17 ++++--
> >  kernel/rcutree.c            |  130 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> >  kernel/rcutree.h            |    9 ++-
> >  kernel/rcutree_plugin.h     |    7 +-
> >  kernel/rcutree_trace.c      |   12 ++--
> >  5 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> current tip/master that have this reverting and without setting DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
> 
> still get delay
> 
> [   35.419453] cpu_dev_init done
> [  128.981770] memory_dev_init done
> 
> should take only 3 or 4 seconds.

Thank you for checking this out.

This is with the same configuration you sent earlier?  (Other than the
DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS, of course.)

							Thanx, Paul