rcu: Enforce expedited-GP fairness via funnel wait queue
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sun, 31 Jan 2016 01:57:35 +0000 (17:57 -0800)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:34:08 +0000 (13:34 -0700)
commitf6a12f34a448cc8a624070fd365c29c890138a48
treec7fc5c50f1bf0c5af3b6a7d5f2dc61f43a4cfca3
parentd40a4f09a448382961fa9b1a2f7d4f34813f0273
rcu: Enforce expedited-GP fairness via funnel wait queue

The current mutex-based funnel-locking approach used by expedited grace
periods is subject to severe unfairness.  The problem arises when a
few tasks, making a path from leaves to root, all wake up before other
tasks do.  A new task can then follow this path all the way to the root,
which needlessly delays tasks whose grace period is done, but who do
not happen to acquire the lock quickly enough.

This commit avoids this problem by maintaining per-rcu_node wait queues,
along with a per-rcu_node counter that tracks the latest grace period
sought by an earlier task to visit this node.  If that grace period
would satisfy the current task, instead of proceeding up the tree,
it waits on the current rcu_node structure using a pair of wait queues
provided for that purpose.  This decouples awakening of old tasks from
the arrival of new tasks.

If the wakeups prove to be a bottleneck, additional kthreads can be
brought to bear for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
include/trace/events/rcu.h
kernel/rcu/tree.c
kernel/rcu/tree.h
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
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