[PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/15] rcu: Accelerate RCU callbacks at grace-period end

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon Mar 18 2013 - 17:37:35 EST


From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx>

Now that callback acceleration is idempotent, it is safe to accelerate
callbacks during grace-period cleanup on any CPUs that the kthread happens
to be running on. This commit therefore propagates the completion
of the grace period to the per-CPU data structures, and also adds an
rcu_advance_cbs() just before the cpu_needs_another_gp() check in order
to reduce false-positive grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcutree.c | 21 +++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 074cb2d..2015bce 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -1396,6 +1396,9 @@ static void rcu_gp_cleanup(struct rcu_state *rsp)
rcu_for_each_node_breadth_first(rsp, rnp) {
raw_spin_lock_irq(&rnp->lock);
rnp->completed = rsp->gpnum;
+ rdp = this_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda);
+ if (rnp == rdp->mynode)
+ __rcu_process_gp_end(rsp, rnp, rdp);
nocb += rcu_nocb_gp_cleanup(rsp, rnp);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&rnp->lock);
cond_resched();
@@ -1408,6 +1411,7 @@ static void rcu_gp_cleanup(struct rcu_state *rsp)
trace_rcu_grace_period(rsp->name, rsp->completed, "end");
rsp->fqs_state = RCU_GP_IDLE;
rdp = this_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda);
+ rcu_advance_cbs(rsp, rnp, rdp); /* Reduce false positives below. */
if (cpu_needs_another_gp(rsp, rdp))
rsp->gp_flags = 1;
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&rnp->lock);
@@ -1497,6 +1501,15 @@ rcu_start_gp(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long flags)
struct rcu_data *rdp = this_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda);
struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp);

+ /*
+ * If there is no grace period in progress right now, any
+ * callbacks we have up to this point will be satisfied by the
+ * next grace period. Also, advancing the callbacks reduces the
+ * probability of false positives from cpu_needs_another_gp()
+ * resulting in pointless grace periods. So, advance callbacks!
+ */
+ rcu_advance_cbs(rsp, rnp, rdp);
+
if (!rsp->gp_kthread ||
!cpu_needs_another_gp(rsp, rdp)) {
/*
@@ -1509,14 +1522,6 @@ rcu_start_gp(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long flags)
return;
}

- /*
- * Because there is no grace period in progress right now,
- * any callbacks we have up to this point will be satisfied
- * by the next grace period. So this is a good place to
- * assign a grace period number to recently posted callbacks.
- */
- rcu_accelerate_cbs(rsp, rnp, rdp);
-
rsp->gp_flags = RCU_GP_FLAG_INIT;
raw_spin_unlock(&rnp->lock); /* Interrupts remain disabled. */

--
1.8.1.5

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