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[tip/core/rcu,06/26] rcu: Ignore userspace extended quiescent state by default

Message ID 1346360743-3628-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
State Accepted
Commit 1e1a689f10a27a4fe1ab9b4c6db04fa7232746a5
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Paul E. McKenney Aug. 30, 2012, 9:05 p.m. UTC
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

By default we don't want to enter into RCU extended quiescent
state while in userspace because doing this produces some overhead
(eg: use of syscall slowpath). Set it off by default and ready to
run when some feature like adaptive tickless need it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcutree.c |    5 ++++-
 kernel/rcutree.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Comments

Josh Triplett Aug. 31, 2012, 11:46 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:05:23PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> 
> By default we don't want to enter into RCU extended quiescent
> state while in userspace because doing this produces some overhead
> (eg: use of syscall slowpath). Set it off by default and ready to
> run when some feature like adaptive tickless need it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

>  kernel/rcutree.c |    5 ++++-
>  kernel/rcutree.h |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
> index 8bbc7fb..e2fd370 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcutree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
> @@ -210,6 +210,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_note_context_switch);
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_dynticks, rcu_dynticks) = {
>  	.dynticks_nesting = DYNTICK_TASK_EXIT_IDLE,
>  	.dynticks = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
> +#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
> +	.ignore_user_qs = true,
> +#endif
>  };
>  
>  static int blimit = 10;		/* Maximum callbacks per rcu_do_batch. */
> @@ -443,7 +446,7 @@ void rcu_user_enter(void)
>  
>  	local_irq_save(flags);
>  	rdtp = &__get_cpu_var(rcu_dynticks);
> -	if (!rdtp->in_user) {
> +	if (!rdtp->ignore_user_qs && !rdtp->in_user) {
>  		rdtp->in_user = true;
>  		rcu_eqs_enter(1);
>  	}
> diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h
> index 0dd5fd6..c190582 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcutree.h
> +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h
> @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ struct rcu_dynticks {
>  	int tick_nohz_enabled_snap; /* Previously seen value from sysfs. */
>  #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ */
>  #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
> +	bool ignore_user_qs;	    /* Treat userspace as extended QS or not */
>  	bool in_user;		    /* Is the CPU in userland from RCU POV? */
>  #endif
>  };
> -- 
> 1.7.8
>
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diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 8bbc7fb..e2fd370 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -210,6 +210,9 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_note_context_switch);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_dynticks, rcu_dynticks) = {
 	.dynticks_nesting = DYNTICK_TASK_EXIT_IDLE,
 	.dynticks = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
+#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
+	.ignore_user_qs = true,
+#endif
 };
 
 static int blimit = 10;		/* Maximum callbacks per rcu_do_batch. */
@@ -443,7 +446,7 @@  void rcu_user_enter(void)
 
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	rdtp = &__get_cpu_var(rcu_dynticks);
-	if (!rdtp->in_user) {
+	if (!rdtp->ignore_user_qs && !rdtp->in_user) {
 		rdtp->in_user = true;
 		rcu_eqs_enter(1);
 	}
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h
index 0dd5fd6..c190582 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.h
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@  struct rcu_dynticks {
 	int tick_nohz_enabled_snap; /* Previously seen value from sysfs. */
 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ */
 #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
+	bool ignore_user_qs;	    /* Treat userspace as extended QS or not */
 	bool in_user;		    /* Is the CPU in userland from RCU POV? */
 #endif
 };