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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> | 2011-06-21 01:29:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-09-28 21:38:16 -0700 |
| commit | e0f23060adfa3f27beaa7918eff70258b88471b6 (patch) | |
| tree | f0e8ed4ad97a1fc4d3c2c5af639a63063ae52e32 /kernel/rcutree.c | |
| parent | 72fe701b70e6ced35d734b676c13efbc8fc769a9 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e0f23060adfa3f27beaa7918eff70258b88471b6.tar.gz lwn-e0f23060adfa3f27beaa7918eff70258b88471b6.zip | |
rcu: Update comments to reflect softirqs vs. kthreads
We now have kthreads only for flavors of RCU that support boosting,
so update the now-misleading comments accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index eb6e731088a0..4e24399cabcf 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_dynticks, rcu_dynticks) = { }; #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ */ -static int blimit = 10; /* Maximum callbacks per softirq. */ +static int blimit = 10; /* Maximum callbacks per rcu_do_batch. */ static int qhimark = 10000; /* If this many pending, ignore blimit. */ static int qlowmark = 100; /* Once only this many pending, use blimit. */ @@ -1261,7 +1261,7 @@ static void rcu_do_batch(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp) local_irq_restore(flags); - /* Re-raise the RCU softirq if there are callbacks remaining. */ + /* Re-invoke RCU core processing if there are callbacks remaining. */ if (cpu_has_callbacks_ready_to_invoke(rdp)) invoke_rcu_core(); } @@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ static void rcu_do_batch(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp) /* * Check to see if this CPU is in a non-context-switch quiescent state * (user mode or idle loop for rcu, non-softirq execution for rcu_bh). - * Also schedule the RCU softirq handler. + * Also schedule RCU core processing. * * This function must be called with hardirqs disabled. It is normally * invoked from the scheduling-clock interrupt. If rcu_pending returns @@ -1448,9 +1448,9 @@ static void force_quiescent_state(struct rcu_state *rsp, int relaxed) #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_SMP */ /* - * This does the RCU processing work from softirq context for the - * specified rcu_state and rcu_data structures. This may be called - * only from the CPU to whom the rdp belongs. + * This does the RCU core processing work for the specified rcu_state + * and rcu_data structures. This may be called only from the CPU to + * whom the rdp belongs. */ static void __rcu_process_callbacks(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp) @@ -1487,7 +1487,7 @@ __rcu_process_callbacks(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp) } /* - * Do softirq processing for the current CPU. + * Do RCU core processing for the current CPU. */ static void rcu_process_callbacks(struct softirq_action *unused) { @@ -1503,10 +1503,11 @@ static void rcu_process_callbacks(struct softirq_action *unused) } /* - * Wake up the current CPU's kthread. This replaces raise_softirq() - * in earlier versions of RCU. Note that because we are running on - * the current CPU with interrupts disabled, the rcu_cpu_kthread_task - * cannot disappear out from under us. + * Schedule RCU callback invocation. If the specified type of RCU + * does not support RCU priority boosting, just do a direct call, + * otherwise wake up the per-CPU kernel kthread. Note that because we + * are running on the current CPU with interrupts disabled, the + * rcu_cpu_kthread_task cannot disappear out from under us. */ static void invoke_rcu_callbacks(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp) { |