From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:59:33 +0000 (-0800) Subject: rcu: Hold off RCU_FAST_NO_HZ after timer posted X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=696a02cc16b182dd78b1f395ae336f449cc90f11;p=mv-sheeva.git rcu: Hold off RCU_FAST_NO_HZ after timer posted This commit handles workloads that transition quickly between idle and non-idle, and where the CPU's callbacks cannot be invoked, but where RCU does not have anything immediate for the CPU to do. Without this patch, the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ code can be invoked repeatedly on each entry to idle. The commit sets the per-CPU rcu_dyntick_holdoff variable to hold off further attempts for a tick. Reported-by: "Abou Gazala, Neven M" Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h index 392a65136a7..c023464816b 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h @@ -2138,7 +2138,7 @@ static void rcu_prepare_for_idle(int cpu) /* Can we go dyntick-idle despite still having callbacks? */ trace_rcu_prep_idle("Dyntick with callbacks"); per_cpu(rcu_dyntick_drain, cpu) = 0; - per_cpu(rcu_dyntick_holdoff, cpu) = jiffies - 1; + per_cpu(rcu_dyntick_holdoff, cpu) = jiffies; if (rcu_cpu_has_nonlazy_callbacks(cpu)) hrtimer_start(&per_cpu(rcu_idle_gp_timer, cpu), rcu_idle_gp_wait, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);