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rcu: Force wakeup of rcu_gp_kthread at grace-period end

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The rcu_gp_kthread_wake() refuses to do a wakeup unless at least
one of the ->gp_flags bits are set, which normally will not be the
case when the last quiescent state is reported.  This results in
up to a 3-jiffy delay given default Kconfig settings.  This commit
therefore has rcu_report_qs_rsp() set RCU_GP_FLAG_FQS before invoking
rcu_gp_kthread_wake() in order to force a more immediate wakeup at
grace-period end, thus reducing grace-period latencies.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney 2015-03-16 11:53:52 -07:00
parent 3382adbc1b
commit cd73ca21cd
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@ -2139,6 +2139,7 @@ static void rcu_report_qs_rsp(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long flags)
__releases(rcu_get_root(rsp)->lock)
{
WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_gp_in_progress(rsp));
WRITE_ONCE(rsp->gp_flags, READ_ONCE(rsp->gp_flags) | RCU_GP_FLAG_FQS);
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rcu_get_root(rsp)->lock, flags);
rcu_gp_kthread_wake(rsp);
}