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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-06-20 16:49:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-06-23 11:19:32 -0700 |
| commit | 4a81e8328d3791a4f99bf5b436d050f6dc5ffea3 (patch) | |
| tree | 9ffd05b47ffd38639ec904d3329eba1060d3acae /kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | |
| parent | 546a9d8519ed137b2804a3f5a3659003039dd49c (diff) | |
| download | linux-4a81e8328d3791a4f99bf5b436d050f6dc5ffea3.tar.bz2 | |
rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU
Commit ac1bea85781e (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states)
fixed a problem where a CPU looping in the kernel with but one runnable
task would give RCU CPU stall warnings, even if the in-kernel loop
contained cond_resched() calls. Unfortunately, in so doing, it introduced
performance regressions in Anton Blanchard's will-it-scale "open1" test.
The problem appears to be not so much the increased cond_resched() path
length as an increase in the rate at which grace periods complete, which
increased per-update grace-period overhead.
This commit takes a different approach to fixing this bug, mainly by
moving the RCU-visible quiescent state from cond_resched() to
rcu_note_context_switch(), and by further reducing the check to a
simple non-zero test of a single per-CPU variable. However, this
approach requires that the force-quiescent-state processing send
resched IPIs to the offending CPUs. These will be sent only once
the grace period has reached an age specified by the boot/sysfs
parameter rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs, or once the grace period
reaches an age halfway to the point at which RCU CPU stall warnings
will be emitted, whichever comes first.
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Made rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() as suggested by the
ktest build robot. Also fixed smp_mb() comment as noted by
Oleg Nesterov. ]
Merge with e552592e (Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h index cbc2c45265e2..02ac0fb186b8 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h @@ -2404,7 +2404,7 @@ static bool init_nocb_callback_list(struct rcu_data *rdp) * if an adaptive-ticks CPU is failing to respond to the current grace * period and has not be idle from an RCU perspective, kick it. */ -static void rcu_kick_nohz_cpu(int cpu) +static void __maybe_unused rcu_kick_nohz_cpu(int cpu) { #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)) |