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authorZhang, Jun <jun.zhang@intel.com>2018-12-19 19:37:34 +0100
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>2019-01-26 00:30:00 +0100
commit13dc7d0c7a2ed438f0ec8e9fb365a1256d87cf87 (patch)
tree08cc0cbdabd91e8ca1f5621a569e971f59f558e3 /kernel/rcu
parentrcu: Do RCU GP kthread self-wakeup from softirq and interrupt (diff)
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rcu: Prevent needless ->gp_seq_needed update in __note_gp_changes()
Currently, __note_gp_changes() checks to see if the rcu_node structure's ->gp_seq_needed is greater than or equal to that of the rcu_data structure, and if so, updates the rcu_data structure's ->gp_seq_needed field. This results in a useless store in the case where the two fields are equal. This commit therefore carries out this store only in the case where the rcu_node structure's ->gp_seq_needed is strictly greater than that of the rcu_data structure. Signed-off-by: "Zhang, Jun" <jun.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/88DC34334CA3444C85D647DBFA962C2735AD5F77@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 21775eebb8f0..9d0e2ac9356e 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1758,7 +1758,7 @@ static bool __note_gp_changes(struct rcu_node *rnp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
zero_cpu_stall_ticks(rdp);
}
rdp->gp_seq = rnp->gp_seq; /* Remember new grace-period state. */
- if (ULONG_CMP_GE(rnp->gp_seq_needed, rdp->gp_seq_needed) || rdp->gpwrap)
+ if (ULONG_CMP_LT(rdp->gp_seq_needed, rnp->gp_seq_needed) || rdp->gpwrap)
rdp->gp_seq_needed = rnp->gp_seq_needed;
WRITE_ONCE(rdp->gpwrap, false);
rcu_gpnum_ovf(rnp, rdp);