From eb75767be0e514f97bf1b5cec763696cfc7f7e2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:10:40 -0700 Subject: nohz_full: Force RCU's grace-period kthreads onto timekeeping CPU Because RCU's quiescent-state-forcing mechanism is used to drive the full-system-idle state machine, and because this mechanism is executed by RCU's grace-period kthreads, this commit forces these kthreads to run on the timekeeping CPU (tick_do_timer_cpu). To do otherwise would mean that the RCU grace-period kthreads would force the system into non-idle state every time they drove the state machine, which would be just a bit on the futile side. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Lai Jiangshan Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- kernel/rcutree.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.h') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index 6fd3659cf01a..5f97eab602cd 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -560,6 +560,7 @@ static void rcu_sysidle_check_cpu(struct rcu_data *rdp, bool *isidle, static bool is_sysidle_rcu_state(struct rcu_state *rsp); static void rcu_sysidle_report_gp(struct rcu_state *rsp, int isidle, unsigned long maxj); +static void rcu_bind_gp_kthread(void); static void rcu_sysidle_init_percpu_data(struct rcu_dynticks *rdtp); #endif /* #ifndef RCU_TREE_NONCORE */ -- cgit v1.2.3