From 25502a6c13745f4650cc59322bd198194f55e796 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 17:37:01 -0700 Subject: rcu: refactor RCU's context-switch handling The addition of preemptible RCU to treercu resulted in a bit of confusion and inefficiency surrounding the handling of context switches for RCU-sched and for RCU-preempt. For RCU-sched, a context switch is a quiescent state, pure and simple, just like it always has been. For RCU-preempt, a context switch is in no way a quiescent state, but special handling is required when a task blocks in an RCU read-side critical section. However, the callout from the scheduler and the outer loop in ksoftirqd still calls something named rcu_sched_qs(), whose name is no longer accurate. Furthermore, when rcu_check_callbacks() notes an RCU-sched quiescent state, it ends up unnecessarily (though harmlessly, aside from the performance hit) enqueuing the current task if it happens to be running in an RCU-preempt read-side critical section. This not only increases the maximum latency of scheduler_tick(), it also needlessly increases the overhead of the next outermost rcu_read_unlock() invocation. This patch addresses this situation by separating the notion of RCU's context-switch handling from that of RCU-sched's quiescent states. The context-switch handling is covered by rcu_note_context_switch() in general and by rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() for preemptible RCU. This permits rcu_sched_qs() to handle quiescent states and only quiescent states. It also reduces the maximum latency of scheduler_tick(), though probably by much less than a microsecond. Finally, it means that tasks within preemptible-RCU read-side critical sections avoid incurring the overhead of queuing unless there really is a context switch. Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra --- include/linux/rcutiny.h | 4 ++++ include/linux/rcutree.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/rcutiny.h b/include/linux/rcutiny.h index bbeb55b7709..ff22b97fb97 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcutiny.h +++ b/include/linux/rcutiny.h @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ void rcu_sched_qs(int cpu); void rcu_bh_qs(int cpu); +static inline void rcu_note_context_switch(int cpu) +{ + rcu_sched_qs(cpu); +} #define __rcu_read_lock() preempt_disable() #define __rcu_read_unlock() preempt_enable() diff --git a/include/linux/rcutree.h b/include/linux/rcutree.h index 7484fe66a3a..b9f74606f32 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcutree.h +++ b/include/linux/rcutree.h @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ struct notifier_block; extern void rcu_sched_qs(int cpu); extern void rcu_bh_qs(int cpu); +extern void rcu_note_context_switch(int cpu); extern int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu); extern int rcu_expedited_torture_stats(char *page); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2