From 486e259340fc4c60474f2c14703e3b3634bb58ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:11:30 -0800 Subject: rcu: Avoid waking up CPUs having only kfree_rcu() callbacks When CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is enabled, RCU will allow a given CPU to enter dyntick-idle mode even if it still has RCU callbacks queued. RCU avoids system hangs in this case by scheduling a timer for several jiffies in the future. However, if all of the callbacks on that CPU are from kfree_rcu(), there is no reason to wake the CPU up, as it is not a problem to defer freeing of memory. This commit therefore tracks the number of callbacks on a given CPU that are from kfree_rcu(), and avoids scheduling the timer if all of a given CPU's callbacks are from kfree_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutiny.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcutiny.c') diff --git a/kernel/rcutiny.c b/kernel/rcutiny.c index 8e00d461911..4eb34fcc2a7 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutiny.c +++ b/kernel/rcutiny.c @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static void __rcu_process_callbacks(struct rcu_ctrlblk *rcp) /* If no RCU callbacks ready to invoke, just return. */ if (&rcp->rcucblist == rcp->donetail) { - RCU_TRACE(trace_rcu_batch_start(rcp->name, 0, -1)); + RCU_TRACE(trace_rcu_batch_start(rcp->name, 0, 0, -1)); RCU_TRACE(trace_rcu_batch_end(rcp->name, 0, ACCESS_ONCE(rcp->rcucblist), need_resched(), @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static void __rcu_process_callbacks(struct rcu_ctrlblk *rcp) /* Move the ready-to-invoke callbacks to a local list. */ local_irq_save(flags); - RCU_TRACE(trace_rcu_batch_start(rcp->name, 0, -1)); + RCU_TRACE(trace_rcu_batch_start(rcp->name, 0, rcp->qlen, -1)); list = rcp->rcucblist; rcp->rcucblist = *rcp->donetail; *rcp->donetail = NULL; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2