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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2010-02-23 02:04:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-02-25 10:34:55 +0100 |
| commit | 8bd93a2c5d4cab2ae17d06350daa7dbf546a4634 (patch) | |
| tree | 3facbdbfbcc1b169fad20f456b0a2521adadfb25 /kernel/rcutree.c | |
| parent | rcu: Fix citation of Mathieu's dissertation (diff) | |
| download | linux-8bd93a2c5d4cab2ae17d06350daa7dbf546a4634.tar.xz linux-8bd93a2c5d4cab2ae17d06350daa7dbf546a4634.zip | |
rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU
Currently, rcu_needs_cpu() simply checks whether the current CPU
has an outstanding RCU callback, which means that the last CPU
to go into dyntick-idle mode might wait a few ticks for the
relevant grace periods to complete. However, if all the other
CPUs are in dyntick-idle mode, and if this CPU is in a quiescent
state (which it is for RCU-bh and RCU-sched any time that we are
considering going into dyntick-idle mode), then the grace period
is instantly complete.
This patch therefore repeatedly invokes the RCU grace-period
machinery in order to force any needed grace periods to complete
quickly. It does so a limited number of times in order to
prevent starvation by an RCU callback function that might pass
itself to call_rcu().
However, if any CPU other than the current one is not in
dyntick-idle mode, fall back to simply checking (with fix to bug
noted by Lai Jiangshan). Also, take advantage of last
grace-period forcing, the opportunity to do so noted by Steve
Rostedt. And apply simplified #ifdef condition suggested by
Frederic Weisbecker.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-15-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 099a255ede4c..29d88c08d875 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -1550,10 +1550,9 @@ static int rcu_pending(int cpu) /* * Check to see if any future RCU-related work will need to be done * by the current CPU, even if none need be done immediately, returning - * 1 if so. This function is part of the RCU implementation; it is -not- - * an exported member of the RCU API. + * 1 if so. */ -int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu) +static int rcu_needs_cpu_quick_check(int cpu) { /* RCU callbacks either ready or pending? */ return per_cpu(rcu_sched_data, cpu).nxtlist || |