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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-08-25 21:20:47 -0700
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2014-03-12 13:25:37 +0100
commit66802dc66423b151f82088406a77131474341cb7 (patch)
tree2658bcbdbfca9cc2e03aec4afdf538fe28a4d1da /kernel/Makefile
parentac631f750ba3ccde692d0f41750002fba17a005d (diff)
rcu: Throttle rcu_try_advance_all_cbs() execution
commit c229828ca6bc62d6c654f64b1d1b8a9ebd8a56f3 upstream. The rcu_try_advance_all_cbs() function is invoked on each attempted entry to and every exit from idle. If this function determines that there are callbacks ready to invoke, the caller will invoke the RCU core, which in turn will result in a pair of context switches. If a CPU enters and exits idle extremely frequently, this can result in an excessive number of context switches and high CPU overhead. This commit therefore causes rcu_try_advance_all_cbs() to throttle itself, refusing to do work more than once per jiffy. Reported-by: Tibor Billes <tbilles@gmx.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Tibor Billes <tbilles@gmx.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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