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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> | 2011-04-14 12:13:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-05-05 23:16:55 -0700 |
| commit | 0f962a5e7277c34987b77dc82fc9aefcedc95e27 (patch) | |
| tree | b265d93dcc8f2669f8fb9b353344b9f6cc354728 /kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | |
| parent | 27f4d28057adf98750cf863c40baefb12f5b6d21 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-0f962a5e7277c34987b77dc82fc9aefcedc95e27.tar.gz lwn-0f962a5e7277c34987b77dc82fc9aefcedc95e27.zip | |
rcu: Force per-rcu_node kthreads off of the outgoing CPU
The scheduler has had some heartburn in the past when too many real-time
kthreads were affinitied to the outgoing CPU. So, this commit lightens
the load by forcing the per-rcu_node and the boost kthreads off of the
outgoing CPU. Note that RCU's per-CPU kthread remains on the outgoing
CPU until the bitter end, as it must in order to preserve correctness.
Also avoid disabling hardirqs across calls to set_cpus_allowed_ptr(),
given that this function can block.
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_plugin.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h index 5964f82e2d96..4e486255df63 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h @@ -1212,17 +1212,19 @@ static void rcu_initiate_boost(struct rcu_node *rnp) } } +/* + * Set the affinity of the boost kthread. The CPU-hotplug locks are + * held, so no one should be messing with the existence of the boost + * kthread. + */ static void rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity(struct rcu_node *rnp, cpumask_var_t cm) { - unsigned long flags; struct task_struct *t; - raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags); t = rnp->boost_kthread_task; if (t != NULL) set_cpus_allowed_ptr(rnp->boost_kthread_task, cm); - raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags); } #define RCU_BOOST_DELAY_JIFFIES DIV_ROUND_UP(CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_DELAY * HZ, 1000) |