From d21670acab9fcb4bc74a40b68a6941059234c55c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:39:26 -0700 Subject: rcu: reduce the number of spurious RCU_SOFTIRQ invocations Lai Jiangshan noted that up to 10% of the RCU_SOFTIRQ are spurious, and traced this down to the fact that the current grace-period machinery will uselessly raise RCU_SOFTIRQ when a given CPU needs to go through a quiescent state, but has not yet done so. In this situation, there might well be nothing that RCU_SOFTIRQ can do, and the overhead can be worth worrying about in the ksoftirqd case. This patch therefore avoids raising RCU_SOFTIRQ in this situation. Changes since v1 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/30/122 from Lai Jiangshan): o Omit the rcu_qs_pending() prechecks, as they aren't that much less expensive than the quiescent-state checks. o Merge with the set_need_resched() patch that reduces IPIs. o Add the new n_rp_report_qs field to the rcu_pending tracing output. o Update the tracing documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutree.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.h') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index 11f171121ad9..14c040b18ed0 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ struct rcu_data { /* 5) __rcu_pending() statistics. */ unsigned long n_rcu_pending; /* rcu_pending() calls since boot. */ unsigned long n_rp_qs_pending; + unsigned long n_rp_report_qs; unsigned long n_rp_cb_ready; unsigned long n_rp_cpu_needs_gp; unsigned long n_rp_gp_completed; -- cgit v1.2.3