[PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/11] rcu: Micro-optimize rcu_cpu_has_callbacks()

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Sep 24 2013 - 21:31:31 EST


From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The for_each_rcu_flavor() loop unconditionally scans all flavors, even
when the first flavor might have some non-lazy callbacks. Once the
loop has seen a non-lazy callback, further passes through the loop
cannot change the state. This is not a huge problem, given that there
can be at most three RCU flavors (RCU-bh, RCU-preempt, and RCU-sched),
but this code is on the path to idle, so speeding it up even a small
amount would have some benefit.

This commit therefore does two things:

1. Rearranges the order of the list of RCU flavors in order to
place the most active flavor first in the list. The most active
RCU flavor is RCU-preempt, or, if there is no RCU-preempt,
RCU-sched.

2. Reworks the for_each_rcu_flavor() to exit early when the first
non-lazy callback is seen, or, in the case where the caller
does not care about non-lazy callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=n),
when the first callback is seen.

Reported-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcutree.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index e6f2e8f..49464ad 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -2727,10 +2727,13 @@ static int rcu_cpu_has_callbacks(int cpu, bool *all_lazy)

for_each_rcu_flavor(rsp) {
rdp = per_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda, cpu);
- if (rdp->qlen != rdp->qlen_lazy)
+ if (!rdp->nxtlist)
+ continue;
+ hc = true;
+ if (rdp->qlen != rdp->qlen_lazy || !all_lazy) {
al = false;
- if (rdp->nxtlist)
- hc = true;
+ break;
+ }
}
if (all_lazy)
*all_lazy = al;
@@ -3297,8 +3300,8 @@ void __init rcu_init(void)

rcu_bootup_announce();
rcu_init_geometry();
- rcu_init_one(&rcu_sched_state, &rcu_sched_data);
rcu_init_one(&rcu_bh_state, &rcu_bh_data);
+ rcu_init_one(&rcu_sched_state, &rcu_sched_data);
__rcu_init_preempt();
open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks);

--
1.8.1.5

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