[tip: core/rcu] rcu-tasks: Convert sleeps to idle priority

From: tip-bot2 for Paul E. McKenney
Date: Fri Jul 31 2020 - 05:27:02 EST


The following commit has been merged into the core/rcu branch of tip:

Commit-ID: ea6eed9f7d7382c7230202d4c3bf74185f193394
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/ea6eed9f7d7382c7230202d4c3bf74185f193394
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 07 May 2020 16:47:13 -07:00
Committer: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:00:22 -07:00

rcu-tasks: Convert sleeps to idle priority

This commit converts the long-standing schedule_timeout_interruptible()
and schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() calls used by the various Tasks
RCU's grace-period kthreads to schedule_timeout_idle(). This conversion
avoids polluting the load-average with Tasks-RCU-related sleeping.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
index ce23f6c..91fee81 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)
if (!rtp->cbs_head) {
WARN_ON(signal_pending(current));
set_tasks_gp_state(rtp, RTGS_WAIT_WAIT_CBS);
- schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ/10);
+ schedule_timeout_idle(HZ/10);
}
continue;
}
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)
cond_resched();
}
/* Paranoid sleep to keep this from entering a tight loop */
- schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ/10);
+ schedule_timeout_idle(HZ/10);

set_tasks_gp_state(rtp, RTGS_WAIT_CBS);
}
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static void rcu_tasks_wait_gp(struct rcu_tasks *rtp)

/* Slowly back off waiting for holdouts */
set_tasks_gp_state(rtp, RTGS_WAIT_SCAN_HOLDOUTS);
- schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ/fract);
+ schedule_timeout_idle(HZ/fract);

if (fract > 1)
fract--;