From c0f4dfd4f90f1667d234d21f15153ea09a2eaa66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:30:36 -0800 Subject: rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks Because RCU callbacks are now associated with the number of the grace period that they must wait for, CPUs can now take advance callbacks corresponding to grace periods that ended while a given CPU was in dyntick-idle mode. This eliminates the need to try forcing the RCU state machine while entering idle, thus reducing the CPU intensiveness of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, which should increase its energy efficiency. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutree_trace.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree_trace.c') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_trace.c b/kernel/rcutree_trace.c index 0d095dcaa670..49099e81c87b 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree_trace.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree_trace.c @@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ #define RCU_TREE_NONCORE #include "rcutree.h" -#define ulong2long(a) (*(long *)(&(a))) - static int r_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, const struct seq_operations *op) { -- cgit v1.2.3