From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:19:05 +0000 (-0700) Subject: rcu: Allow RCU grace-period cleanup to be preempted X-Git-Tag: next-20120907~29^2~22 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d6bb5a6bee5186f8f1428002691a63d292563444;p=karo-tx-linux.git rcu: Allow RCU grace-period cleanup to be preempted RCU grace-period cleanup is currently carried out with interrupts disabled, which can result in excessive latency spikes on large systems (many hundreds or thousands of CPUs). This patch therefore makes the RCU grace-period cleanup be preemptible, including voluntary preemption points, which should eliminate those latency spikes. Similar spikes from forcing of quiescent states will be dealt with similarly by later patches. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 9fad21c86e78..300aba692692 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ static int rcu_gp_kthread(void *arg) * completed. */ if (*rdp->nxttail[RCU_WAIT_TAIL] == NULL) { - raw_spin_unlock(&rnp->lock); /* irqs remain disabled. */ + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags); /* * Propagate new ->completed value to rcu_node @@ -1179,14 +1179,13 @@ static int rcu_gp_kthread(void *arg) * to process their callbacks. */ rcu_for_each_node_breadth_first(rsp, rnp) { - /* irqs already disabled. */ - raw_spin_lock(&rnp->lock); + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags); rnp->completed = rsp->gpnum; - /* irqs remain disabled. */ - raw_spin_unlock(&rnp->lock); + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags); + cond_resched(); } rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp); - raw_spin_lock(&rnp->lock); /* irqs already disabled. */ + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags); } rsp->completed = rsp->gpnum; /* Declare grace period done. */