From: Pranith Kumar Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:07:47 +0000 (-0400) Subject: rcu: Use rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to wake up grace period kthreads X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2aa792e6faf1;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git rcu: Use rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to wake up grace period kthreads The rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function checks for three conditions before waking up grace period kthreads: * Is the thread we are trying to wake up the current thread? * Are the gp_flags zero? (all threads wait on non-zero gp_flags condition) * Is there no thread created for this flavour, hence nothing to wake up? If any one of these condition is true, we do not call wake_up(). It was found that there are quite a few avoidable wake ups both during idle time and under stress induced by rcutorture. Idle: Total:66000, unnecessary:66000, case1:61827, case2:66000, case3:0 Total:68000, unnecessary:68000, case1:63696, case2:68000, case3:0 rcutorture: Total:254000, unnecessary:254000, case1:199913, case2:254000, case3:0 Total:256000, unnecessary:256000, case1:201784, case2:256000, case3:0 Here case{1-3} are the cases listed above. We can avoid these wake ups by using rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to conditionally wake up the grace period kthreads. There is a comment about an implied barrier supplied by the wake_up() logic. This barrier is necessary for the awakened thread to see the updated ->gp_flags. This flag is always being updated with the root node lock held. Also, the awakened thread tries to acquire the root node lock before reading ->gp_flags because of which there is proper ordering. Hence this commit tries to avoid calling wake_up() whenever we can by using rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar CC: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index dd6c8b519691..9e83cd9a32f1 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -1938,7 +1938,7 @@ static void rcu_report_qs_rsp(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long flags) { WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_gp_in_progress(rsp)); raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rcu_get_root(rsp)->lock, flags); - wake_up(&rsp->gp_wq); /* Memory barrier implied by wake_up() path. */ + rcu_gp_kthread_wake(rsp); } /* @@ -2516,7 +2516,7 @@ static void force_quiescent_state(struct rcu_state *rsp) ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_flags) = ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_flags) | RCU_GP_FLAG_FQS; raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp_old->lock, flags); - wake_up(&rsp->gp_wq); /* Memory barrier implied by wake_up() path. */ + rcu_gp_kthread_wake(rsp); } /*