From d72bce0e67e8afc6eb959f656013cbb577426f1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 13:34:51 +0200 Subject: rcu: Cure load woes Commit cc3ce5176d83 (rcu: Start RCU kthreads in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state) fudges a sleeping task' state, resulting in the scheduler seeing a TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE task going to sleep, but a TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE task waking up. The result is unbalanced load calculation. The problem that patch tried to address is that the RCU threads could stay in UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for quite a while and triggering the hung task detector due to on-demand wake-ups. Cure the problem differently by always giving the tasks at least one wake-up once the CPU is fully up and running, this will kick them out of the initial UNINTERRUPTIBLE state and into the regular INTERRUPTIBLE wait state. [ The alternative would be teaching kthread_create() to start threads as INTERRUPTIBLE but that needs a tad more thought. ] Reported-by: Damien Wyart Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306755291.1200.2872.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree_plugin.h') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h index a767b7dac365..c8bff3099a89 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h @@ -1295,7 +1295,6 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp, if (IS_ERR(t)) return PTR_ERR(t); raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags); - set_task_state(t, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); rnp->boost_kthread_task = t; raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags); sp.sched_priority = RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO; @@ -1303,6 +1302,12 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp, return 0; } +static void __cpuinit rcu_wake_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_node *rnp) +{ + if (rnp->boost_kthread_task) + wake_up_process(rnp->boost_kthread_task); +} + #else /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */ static void rcu_initiate_boost(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags) @@ -1326,6 +1331,10 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp, return 0; } +static void __cpuinit rcu_wake_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_node *rnp) +{ +} + #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */ #ifndef CONFIG_SMP -- cgit v1.2.3