From 4a81e8328d3791a4f99bf5b436d050f6dc5ffea3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:49:01 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett [ 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 --- kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h') 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)) -- cgit v1.2.3