ring-buffer: speed up buffer resets by avoiding synchronize_rcu for each CPU
On a 144 thread system, `perf ftrace` takes about 20 seconds to start up, due to calling synchronize_rcu() for each CPU. cat /proc/108560/stack 0xc0003e7eb336f470 __switch_to+0x2e0/0x480 __wait_rcu_gp+0x20c/0x220 synchronize_rcu+0x9c/0xc0 ring_buffer_reset_cpu+0x88/0x2e0 tracing_reset_online_cpus+0x84/0xe0 tracing_open+0x1d4/0x1f0 On a system with 10x more threads, it starts to become an annoyance. Batch these up so we disable all the per-cpu buffers first, then synchronize_rcu() once, then reset each of the buffers. This brings the time down to about 0.5s. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200625053403.2386972-1-npiggin@gmail.comTested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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