From 486e259340fc4c60474f2c14703e3b3634bb58ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:11:30 -0800 Subject: rcu: Avoid waking up CPUs having only kfree_rcu() callbacks When CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is enabled, RCU will allow a given CPU to enter dyntick-idle mode even if it still has RCU callbacks queued. RCU avoids system hangs in this case by scheduling a timer for several jiffies in the future. However, if all of the callbacks on that CPU are from kfree_rcu(), there is no reason to wake the CPU up, as it is not a problem to defer freeing of memory. This commit therefore tracks the number of callbacks on a given CPU that are from kfree_rcu(), and avoids scheduling the timer if all of a given CPU's callbacks are from kfree_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcu.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcu.h') diff --git a/kernel/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu.h index aa88baab5f78..a074b0b43fc2 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu.h +++ b/kernel/rcu.h @@ -76,16 +76,18 @@ static inline void debug_rcu_head_unqueue(struct rcu_head *head) extern void kfree(const void *); -static inline void __rcu_reclaim(char *rn, struct rcu_head *head) +static inline bool __rcu_reclaim(char *rn, struct rcu_head *head) { unsigned long offset = (unsigned long)head->func; if (__is_kfree_rcu_offset(offset)) { RCU_TRACE(trace_rcu_invoke_kfree_callback(rn, head, offset)); kfree((void *)head - offset); + return 1; } else { RCU_TRACE(trace_rcu_invoke_callback(rn, head)); head->func(head); + return 0; } } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2