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rcu: Remove waitqueue usage for cpu, node, and boost kthreads

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It is not necessary to use waitqueues for the RCU kthreads because
we always know exactly which thread is to be awakened.  In addition,
wake_up() only issues an actual wakeup when there is a thread waiting on
the queue, which was why there was an extra explicit wake_up_process()
to get the RCU kthreads started.

Eliminating the waitqueues (and wake_up()) in favor of wake_up_process()
eliminates the need for the initial wake_up_process() and also shrinks
the data structure size a bit.  The wakeup logic is placed in a new
rcu_wait() macro.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-20 16:06:29 -07:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 8826f3b039
commit 08bca60a69
3 changed files with 17 additions and 39 deletions
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kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
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@@ -1196,8 +1196,7 @@ static int rcu_boost_kthread(void *arg)
for (;;) {
rnp->boost_kthread_status = RCU_KTHREAD_WAITING;
wait_event_interruptible(rnp->boost_wq, rnp->boost_tasks ||
rnp->exp_tasks);
rcu_wait(rnp->boost_tasks || rnp->exp_tasks);
rnp->boost_kthread_status = RCU_KTHREAD_RUNNING;
more2boost = rcu_boost(rnp);
if (more2boost)
@@ -1274,14 +1273,6 @@ static void rcu_preempt_boost_start_gp(struct rcu_node *rnp)
rnp->boost_time = jiffies + RCU_BOOST_DELAY_JIFFIES;
}
/*
* Initialize the RCU-boost waitqueue.
*/
static void __init rcu_init_boost_waitqueue(struct rcu_node *rnp)
{
init_waitqueue_head(&rnp->boost_wq);
}
/*
* Create an RCU-boost kthread for the specified node if one does not
* already exist. We only create this kthread for preemptible RCU.
@@ -1306,7 +1297,6 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp,
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
rnp->boost_kthread_task = t;
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
wake_up_process(t);
sp.sched_priority = RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO;
sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
return 0;
@@ -1328,10 +1318,6 @@ static void rcu_preempt_boost_start_gp(struct rcu_node *rnp)
{
}
static void __init rcu_init_boost_waitqueue(struct rcu_node *rnp)
{
}
static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp,
struct rcu_node *rnp,
int rnp_index)