From 486e259340fc4c60474f2c14703e3b3634bb58ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:11:30 -0800 Subject: rcu: Avoid waking up CPUs having only kfree_rcu() callbacks When CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is enabled, RCU will allow a given CPU to enter dyntick-idle mode even if it still has RCU callbacks queued. RCU avoids system hangs in this case by scheduling a timer for several jiffies in the future. However, if all of the callbacks on that CPU are from kfree_rcu(), there is no reason to wake the CPU up, as it is not a problem to defer freeing of memory. This commit therefore tracks the number of callbacks on a given CPU that are from kfree_rcu(), and avoids scheduling the timer if all of a given CPU's callbacks are from kfree_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- include/linux/rcutree.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/rcutree.h') diff --git a/include/linux/rcutree.h b/include/linux/rcutree.h index 73e7195f999..73892483fd0 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcutree.h +++ b/include/linux/rcutree.h @@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ extern void synchronize_rcu_bh(void); extern void synchronize_sched_expedited(void); extern void synchronize_rcu_expedited(void); +void kfree_call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, void (*func)(struct rcu_head *rcu)); + static inline void synchronize_rcu_bh_expedited(void) { synchronize_sched_expedited(); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2