linux-stable/include/trace/events
Paul E. McKenney 7cb9249900 rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending
The current implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ prevents CPUs from entering
dyntick-idle state if they have RCU callbacks pending.  Unfortunately,
this has the side-effect of often preventing them from entering this
state, especially if at least one other CPU is not in dyntick-idle state.
However, the resulting per-tick wakeup is wasteful in many cases: if the
CPU has already fully responded to the current RCU grace period, there
will be nothing for it to do until this grace period ends, which will
frequently take several jiffies.

This commit therefore permits a CPU that has done everything that the
current grace period has asked of it (rcu_pending() == 0) even if it
still as RCU callbacks pending.  However, such a CPU posts a timer to
wake it up several jiffies later (6 jiffies, based on experience with
grace-period lengths).  This wakeup is required to handle situations
that can result in all CPUs being in dyntick-idle mode, thus failing
to ever complete the current grace period.  If a CPU wakes up before
the timer goes off, then it cancels that timer, thus avoiding spurious
wakeups.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:07 -08:00
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9p.h net/9p: Convert net/9p protocol dumps to tracepoints 2011-10-24 11:13:12 -05:00
asoc.h ASoC: Add another DAPM stat for neighbour checks 2011-09-22 17:24:40 +01:00
block.h blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support 2011-08-11 10:36:05 +02:00
btrfs.h writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion 2011-06-08 08:25:23 +08:00
compaction.h mm: compaction: add trace events for memory compaction activity 2011-01-13 17:32:33 -08:00
ext3.h ext3: Add fixed tracepoints 2011-06-25 17:29:51 +02:00
ext4.h ext4: optimize ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized() 2011-10-27 11:43:23 -04:00
gfpflags.h mm: tracing: add missing GFP flags to tracing 2011-05-11 18:50:45 -07:00
gpio.h gpio: add trace events for setting direction and value 2011-05-20 00:40:19 -06:00
irq.h rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression 2011-06-14 15:25:39 -07:00
jbd.h jbd: Add fixed tracepoints 2011-06-25 17:29:51 +02:00
jbd2.h jbd2: remove jbd2_dev_to_name() from jbd2 tracepoints 2011-07-10 22:05:08 -04:00
kmem.h vmscan: tracing: add trace events for kswapd wakeup, sleeping and direct reclaim 2010-08-09 20:44:59 -07:00
kvm.h KVM: cleanup async_pf tracepoints 2011-01-12 11:28:57 +02:00
lock.h tracing: Factorize lock events in a lock class 2010-05-09 13:45:35 +02:00
mce.h tracing: Fix event alignment: mce:mce_record 2011-03-10 10:34:28 -05:00
module.h include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible 2011-10-31 19:32:32 -04:00
napi.h napi: Convert trace_napi_poll to TRACE_EVENT 2010-09-07 17:51:01 +02:00
net.h net: tracepoint of net_dev_xmit sees freed skb and causes panic 2011-06-02 14:06:31 -07:00
power.h perf: Clean up power events by introducing new, more generic ones 2011-01-04 08:16:54 +01:00
rcu.h rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending 2011-12-11 10:32:07 -08:00
regmap.h regmap: Add the regcache_sync trace event 2011-09-19 19:06:34 +01:00
regulator.h regulator: Add basic trace facilities 2011-01-12 14:33:00 +00:00
rpm.h PM / Runtime: Introduce trace points for tracing rpm_* functions 2011-09-27 22:53:27 +02:00
sched.h sched, tracing: Show PREEMPT_ACTIVE state in trace_sched_switch 2011-09-26 13:25:54 +02:00
scsi.h [SCSI] Include protection operation in SCSI command trace 2011-03-14 18:36:02 -05:00
signal.h tracing: Fix null pointer deref with SEND_SIG_FORCED 2010-06-08 23:51:32 +02:00
skb.h tracing: Fix event alignment: skb:kfree_skb 2011-03-10 10:34:31 -05:00
sock.h core: add tracepoints for queueing skb to rcvbuf 2011-06-21 16:06:10 -07:00
syscalls.h tracing: Allow raw syscall trace events for non privileged users 2010-11-18 14:37:43 +01:00
timer.h tracing: Fix timer tracing 2010-08-19 13:00:41 +02:00
udp.h udp: add tracepoints for queueing skb to rcvbuf 2011-06-21 16:06:10 -07:00
vmscan.h mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
workqueue.h workqueue: add queue_work and activate_work trace points 2010-10-05 10:49:55 +02:00
writeback.h writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work 2011-10-31 00:33:36 +08:00
xen.h xen/tracing: fix compile errors when tracing is disabled. 2011-07-25 15:51:02 -07:00