From 5d01bbd111d6ff9ea9d9847774f66dff39633776 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:42:35 +0000 Subject: rcu: Yield simpler The rcu_yield() code is amazing. It's there to avoid starvation of the system when lots of (boosting) work is to be done. Now looking at the code it's functionality is: Make the thread SCHED_OTHER and very nice, i.e. get it out of the way Arm a timer with 2 ticks schedule() Now if the system goes idle the rcu task returns, regains SCHED_FIFO and plugs on. If the systems stays busy the timer fires and wakes a per node kthread which in turn makes the per cpu thread SCHED_FIFO and brings it back on the cpu. For the boosting thread the "make it FIFO" bit is missing and it just runs some magic boost checks. Now this is a lot of code with extra threads and complexity. It's way simpler to let the tasks when they detect overload schedule away for 2 ticks and defer the normal wakeup as long as they are in yielded state and the cpu is not idle. That solves the same problem and the only difference is that when the cpu goes idle it's not guaranteed that the thread returns right away, but it won't be longer out than two ticks, so no harm is done. If that's an issue than it is way simpler just to wake the task from idle as RCU has callbacks there anyway. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Namhyung Kim Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120716103948.131256723@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/rcutree.h | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.h') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index 4d29169f2124..f08176172546 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -491,13 +491,8 @@ static void invoke_rcu_callbacks_kthread(void); static bool rcu_is_callbacks_kthread(void); #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST static void rcu_preempt_do_callbacks(void); -static void rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity(struct rcu_node *rnp, - cpumask_var_t cm); static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp, - struct rcu_node *rnp, - int rnp_index); -static void invoke_rcu_node_kthread(struct rcu_node *rnp); -static void rcu_yield(void (*f)(unsigned long), unsigned long arg); + struct rcu_node *rnp); #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */ static void rcu_cpu_kthread_setrt(int cpu, int to_rt); static void __cpuinit rcu_prepare_kthreads(int cpu); -- cgit v1.2.3