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authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>2012-05-11 03:41:44 +0400
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-06-07 07:43:28 +0400
commitaa9b16306e3243229580ff889cc59fd66bf77973 (patch)
treef01812ee99804cd7d7533a1d3cba1e9d439e6f63 /include/linux/rcutree.h
parent5955f7eecd77d6b440db278b266cfecdb72ecd00 (diff)
downloadlinux-aa9b16306e3243229580ff889cc59fd66bf77973.tar.xz
rcu: Precompute RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timer offsets
When a CPU is entering dyntick-idle mode, tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() calls rcu_needs_cpu() see if RCU needs that CPU, and, if not, computes the next wakeup time based on the timer wheels. Only later, when actually entering the idle loop, rcu_prepare_for_idle() will be invoked. In some cases, rcu_prepare_for_idle() will post timers to wake the CPU back up. But all for naught: The next wakeup time for the CPU has already been computed, and posting a timer afterwards does not force that wakeup time to be recomputed. This means that rcu_prepare_for_idle()'s have no effect. This is not a problem on a busy system because something else will wake up the CPU soon enough. However, on lightly loaded systems, the CPU might stay asleep for a considerable length of time. If that CPU has a callback that the rest of the system is waiting on, the system might run very slowly or (in theory) even hang. This commit avoids this problem by having rcu_needs_cpu() give tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() an estimate of when RCU will need the CPU to wake back up, which tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() takes into account when programming the CPU's wakeup time. An alternative approach is for rcu_prepare_for_idle() to use hrtimers instead of normal timers, but timers are much more efficient than are hrtimers for frequently and repeatedly posting and cancelling a given timer, which is exactly what RCU_FAST_NO_HZ does. Reported-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr> Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rcutree.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rcutree.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rcutree.h b/include/linux/rcutree.h
index 3c6083cde4fc..952b79339304 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcutree.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcutree.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
extern void rcu_init(void);
extern void rcu_note_context_switch(int cpu);
-extern int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu);
+extern int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu, unsigned long *delta_jiffies);
extern void rcu_cpu_stall_reset(void);
/*