rcu: Make call_rcu() lazy to save power

Implement timer-based RCU callback batching (also known as lazy
callbacks). With this we save about 5-10% of power consumed due
to RCU requests that happen when system is lightly loaded or idle.

By default, all async callbacks (queued via call_rcu) are marked
lazy. An alternate API call_rcu_hurry() is provided for the few users,
for example synchronize_rcu(), that need the old behavior.

The batch is flushed whenever a certain amount of time has passed, or
the batch on a particular CPU grows too big. Also memory pressure will
flush it in a future patch.

To handle several corner cases automagically (such as rcu_barrier() and
hotplug), we re-use bypass lists which were originally introduced to
address lock contention, to handle lazy CBs as well. The bypass list
length has the lazy CB length included in it. A separate lazy CB length
counter is also introduced to keep track of the number of lazy CBs.

[ paulmck: Fix formatting of inline call_rcu_lazy() definition. ]
[ paulmck: Apply Zqiang feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Apply s/call_rcu_flush/call_rcu_hurry/ feedback from Tejun Heo. ]

Suggested-by: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig
index d471d22a5e21..d78f6181c8aa 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig
@@ -311,4 +311,12 @@ config TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB
 	  Say N here if you hate read-side memory barriers.
 	  Take the default if you are unsure.
 
+config RCU_LAZY
+	bool "RCU callback lazy invocation functionality"
+	depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
+	default n
+	help
+	  To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after delay, memory
+	  pressure, or callback list growing too big.
+
 endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"