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rcu: Allow RCU quiescent-state forcing to be preempted
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:41:11 +0000 (08:41 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:58:20 +0000 (11:58 -0700)
commitede52a0171d55047d9857a8fc40b528008677f97
tree46a07dda58dd7cdea554e915a3a6b7e867ec8a88
parent8a93a319d1d594703f8773c842566ad2f9b980bb
rcu: Allow RCU quiescent-state forcing to be preempted

RCU quiescent-state forcing is currently carried out without preemption
points, which can result in excessive latency spikes on large systems
(many hundreds or thousands of CPUs).  This patch therefore inserts
a voluntary preemption point into force_qs_rnp(), which should greatly
reduce the magnitude of these spikes.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
kernel/rcutree.c