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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> | 2012-01-06 14:11:30 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-02-21 09:03:25 -0800 |
| commit | 486e259340fc4c60474f2c14703e3b3634bb58ca (patch) | |
| tree | 70a58702194588fa0773463523f72c682785d040 /include/linux/rcutree.h | |
| parent | 0bb7b59d6e2b8440cd7097097dd4bbfc4d76ed07 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-486e259340fc4c60474f2c14703e3b3634bb58ca.tar.gz lwn-486e259340fc4c60474f2c14703e3b3634bb58ca.zip | |
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 <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rcutree.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rcutree.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rcutree.h b/include/linux/rcutree.h index 73e7195f9997..73892483fd05 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(); |