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 <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

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;