linux-stable/include/linux/rcutiny.h
Paul E. McKenney aa9b16306e 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>
2012-06-06 20:43:28 -07:00

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/*
* Read-Copy Update mechanism for mutual exclusion, the Bloatwatch edition.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*
* Copyright IBM Corporation, 2008
*
* Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
*
* For detailed explanation of Read-Copy Update mechanism see -
* Documentation/RCU
*/
#ifndef __LINUX_TINY_H
#define __LINUX_TINY_H
#include <linux/cache.h>
static inline void rcu_init(void)
{
}
static inline void rcu_barrier_bh(void)
{
wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu_bh);
}
static inline void rcu_barrier_sched(void)
{
wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu_sched);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU
static inline void synchronize_rcu_expedited(void)
{
synchronize_sched(); /* Only one CPU, so pretty fast anyway!!! */
}
static inline void rcu_barrier(void)
{
rcu_barrier_sched(); /* Only one CPU, so only one list of callbacks! */
}
#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */
void synchronize_rcu_expedited(void);
static inline void rcu_barrier(void)
{
wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu);
}
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */
static inline void synchronize_rcu_bh(void)
{
synchronize_sched();
}
static inline void synchronize_rcu_bh_expedited(void)
{
synchronize_sched();
}
static inline void synchronize_sched_expedited(void)
{
synchronize_sched();
}
static inline void kfree_call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head,
void (*func)(struct rcu_head *rcu))
{
call_rcu(head, func);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU
static inline int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu, unsigned long *delta_jiffies)
{
*delta_jiffies = ULONG_MAX;
return 0;
}
#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */
int rcu_preempt_needs_cpu(void);
static inline int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu, unsigned long *delta_jiffies)
{
*delta_jiffies = ULONG_MAX;
return rcu_preempt_needs_cpu();
}
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */
static inline void rcu_note_context_switch(int cpu)
{
rcu_sched_qs(cpu);
}
/*
* Take advantage of the fact that there is only one CPU, which
* allows us to ignore virtualization-based context switches.
*/
static inline void rcu_virt_note_context_switch(int cpu)
{
}
/*
* Return the number of grace periods.
*/
static inline long rcu_batches_completed(void)
{
return 0;
}
/*
* Return the number of bottom-half grace periods.
*/
static inline long rcu_batches_completed_bh(void)
{
return 0;
}
static inline void rcu_force_quiescent_state(void)
{
}
static inline void rcu_bh_force_quiescent_state(void)
{
}
static inline void rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state(void)
{
}
static inline void rcu_cpu_stall_reset(void)
{
}
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
extern int rcu_scheduler_active __read_mostly;
extern void rcu_scheduler_starting(void);
#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC */
static inline void rcu_scheduler_starting(void)
{
}
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC */
#endif /* __LINUX_RCUTINY_H */