From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755636Ab1EANW0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 09:22:26 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:60484 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753001Ab1EANWW (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 09:22:22 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, patches@linaro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" , "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/86] rcu: put per-CPU kthread at non-RT priority during CPU hotplug operations Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 06:20:48 -0700 Message-Id: <1304256126-26015-8-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.2 In-Reply-To: <20110501132142.GA25494@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20110501132142.GA25494@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Paul E. McKenney If you are doing CPU hotplug operations, it is best not to have CPU-bound realtime tasks running CPU-bound on the outgoing CPU. So this commit makes per-CPU kthreads run at non-realtime priority during that time. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutree.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 85b06c5..eca6f05 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -1464,6 +1464,30 @@ static void invoke_rcu_node_kthread(struct rcu_node *rnp) } /* + * Set the specified CPU's kthread to run RT or not, as specified by + * the to_rt argument. The CPU-hotplug locks are held, so the task + * is not going away. + */ +static void rcu_cpu_kthread_setrt(int cpu, int to_rt) +{ + int policy; + struct sched_param sp; + struct task_struct *t; + + t = per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_task, cpu); + if (t == NULL) + return; + if (to_rt) { + policy = SCHED_FIFO; + sp.sched_priority = RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO; + } else { + policy = SCHED_NORMAL; + sp.sched_priority = 0; + } + sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, policy, &sp); +} + +/* * Timer handler to initiate the waking up of per-CPU kthreads that * have yielded the CPU due to excess numbers of RCU callbacks. * We wake up the per-rcu_node kthread, which in turn will wake up @@ -2166,9 +2190,11 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self, case CPU_ONLINE: case CPU_DOWN_FAILED: rcu_node_kthread_setaffinity(rnp, -1); + rcu_cpu_kthread_setrt(cpu, 1); break; case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE: rcu_node_kthread_setaffinity(rnp, cpu); + rcu_cpu_kthread_setrt(cpu, 0); break; case CPU_DYING: case CPU_DYING_FROZEN: -- 1.7.3.2