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The rcu_segcblist_accelerate() function returns true iff it is necessary to request another grace period. A tracing session showed that this function unnecessarily requests grace periods. For example, consider the following sequence of events: 1. Callbacks are queued only on the NEXT segment of CPU A's callback list. 2. CPU A runs RCU_SOFTIRQ, accelerating these callbacks from NEXT to WAIT. 3. Thus rcu_segcblist_accelerate() returns true, requesting grace period N. 4. RCU's grace-period kthread wakes up on CPU B and starts grace period N. 4. CPU A notices the new grace period and invokes RCU_SOFTIRQ. 5. CPU A's RCU_SOFTIRQ again invokes rcu_segcblist_accelerate(), but there are no new callbacks. However, rcu_segcblist_accelerate() nevertheless (uselessly) requests a new grace period N+1. This extra grace period results in additional lock contention and also additional wakeups, all for no good reason. This commit therefore adds a check to rcu_segcblist_accelerate() that prevents the return of true when there are no new callbacks. This change reduces the number of grace periods (GPs) and wakeups in each of eleven five-second rcutorture runs as follows: +----+-------------------+-------------------+ | # | Number of GPs | Number of Wakeups | +====+=========+=========+=========+=========+ | 1 | With | Without | With | Without | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 2 | 75 | 89 | 113 | 119 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 3 | 62 | 91 | 105 | 123 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 4 | 60 | 79 | 98 | 110 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 5 | 63 | 79 | 99 | 112 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 6 | 57 | 89 | 96 | 123 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 7 | 64 | 85 | 97 | 118 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 8 | 58 | 83 | 98 | 113 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 9 | 57 | 77 | 89 | 104 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 10 | 66 | 82 | 98 | 119 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 11 | 52 | 82 | 83 | 117 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The reduction in the number of wakeups ranges from 5% to 40%. Cc: urezki@gmail.com [ paulmck: Rework commit log and comment. ] Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
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| .. | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.debug | ||
| Makefile | ||
| rcu.h | ||
| rcu_segcblist.c | ||
| rcu_segcblist.h | ||
| rcuperf.c | ||
| rcutorture.c | ||
| refscale.c | ||
| srcutiny.c | ||
| srcutree.c | ||
| sync.c | ||
| tasks.h | ||
| tiny.c | ||
| tree.c | ||
| tree.h | ||
| tree_exp.h | ||
| tree_plugin.h | ||
| tree_stall.h | ||
| update.c | ||