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| author | Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> | 2014-08-12 21:07:47 +0400 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-09-08 03:18:19 +0400 |
| commit | 2aa792e6faf1a00f5accf1f69e87e11a390ba2cd (patch) | |
| tree | 9cae97455e0258207ed4045558584930df75209a /kernel/rcu | |
| parent | ade9862470dd0595d8e292ecea8445ed90b98df5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2aa792e6faf1a00f5accf1f69e87e11a390ba2cd.tar.xz | |
rcu: Use rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to wake up grace period kthreads
The rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function checks for three conditions before
waking up grace period kthreads:
* Is the thread we are trying to wake up the current thread?
* Are the gp_flags zero? (all threads wait on non-zero gp_flags condition)
* Is there no thread created for this flavour, hence nothing to wake up?
If any one of these condition is true, we do not call wake_up().
It was found that there are quite a few avoidable wake ups both during
idle time and under stress induced by rcutorture.
Idle:
Total:66000, unnecessary:66000, case1:61827, case2:66000, case3:0
Total:68000, unnecessary:68000, case1:63696, case2:68000, case3:0
rcutorture:
Total:254000, unnecessary:254000, case1:199913, case2:254000, case3:0
Total:256000, unnecessary:256000, case1:201784, case2:256000, case3:0
Here case{1-3} are the cases listed above. We can avoid these wake
ups by using rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to conditionally wake up the grace
period kthreads.
There is a comment about an implied barrier supplied by the wake_up()
logic. This barrier is necessary for the awakened thread to see the
updated ->gp_flags. This flag is always being updated with the root node
lock held. Also, the awakened thread tries to acquire the root node lock
before reading ->gp_flags because of which there is proper ordering.
Hence this commit tries to avoid calling wake_up() whenever we can by
using rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/tree.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index dd6c8b519691..9e83cd9a32f1 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -1938,7 +1938,7 @@ static void rcu_report_qs_rsp(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long flags) { WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_gp_in_progress(rsp)); raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rcu_get_root(rsp)->lock, flags); - wake_up(&rsp->gp_wq); /* Memory barrier implied by wake_up() path. */ + rcu_gp_kthread_wake(rsp); } /* @@ -2516,7 +2516,7 @@ static void force_quiescent_state(struct rcu_state *rsp) ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_flags) = ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_flags) | RCU_GP_FLAG_FQS; raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp_old->lock, flags); - wake_up(&rsp->gp_wq); /* Memory barrier implied by wake_up() path. */ + rcu_gp_kthread_wake(rsp); } /* |