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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, npiggin@suse.de,
	jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/6] rcu: fix synchronize_rcu_expedited(), update docs, improve perf
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:15:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091014171517.GA13635@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)

This patchset contains a bug fix, a performance improvement, and
documentation updates:

o	Update Documentation/RCU/trace.txt to reflect recent changes
	(including the removal of rcupreempt.c).

o	Fix to the severe performance problem with excessive IPIs and
	lock contention in presence of very large (but legal) numbers
	of RCU callbacks (reported by Nick Piggin).

o	Stopgap fix for a bug in TREE_PREEMPT_RCU's implementation of
	synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This fix is correct, but no faster
	than synchronize_rcu().

o	Add exports for the updated synchronize_rcu_expedited()
	implementation, which moved from a static inline in
	include/linux/rcupdate.h to a separately compiled function
	in kernel/rcutree_plugin.h.

o	Add the new rnp->blocked_tasks field to the rcuhier trace file
	in debugfs.

o	Update the Documentation/RCU/trace.txt documentation to include
	the rnp->blocked_tasks tracing.

I believe that this is 2.6.32 material.

 Documentation/RCU/trace.txt   |   22 ++-
 b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt |  232 +++++-------------------------------------
 b/include/linux/rcutree.h     |    6 -
 b/kernel/rcutree.c            |   29 ++++-
 b/kernel/rcutree.h            |    5 
 b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h     |   20 +++
 b/kernel/rcutree_trace.c      |    8 -
 kernel/rcutree_plugin.h       |    3 
 8 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 222 deletions(-)

             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-14 17:15 Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2009-10-14 17:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/6] rcu: Update trace.txt documentation to reflect recent changes Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-15  9:25   ` [tip:core/rcu] " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-14 17:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/6] rcu: prevent RCU IPI storms in presence of high call_rcu() load Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-15  3:31   ` Nick Piggin
2009-10-15  4:37     ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-15  9:24   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Prevent " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-15 11:04   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/6] rcu: prevent " Nick Piggin
2009-10-15 11:20     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-15 16:07     ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-14 17:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/6] rcu: stopgap fix for synchronize_rcu_expedited() for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-15  9:25   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Stopgap " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-14 17:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 4/6] rcu: add exports for synchronize_rcu_expedited() Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-14 17:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/6] rcu: add rnp->blocked_tasks to tracing Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-14 20:26   ` Josh Triplett
2009-10-14 23:36     ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-15  9:25       ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Add " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-14 17:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 6/6] rcu: Update trace.txt documentation for blocked-tasks lists Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-15  9:25   ` [tip:core/rcu] " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-14 20:28 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/6] rcu: fix synchronize_rcu_expedited(), update docs, improve perf Josh Triplett
2009-10-15  9:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-15  9:35   ` Josh Triplett
2009-10-15 11:19     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-15 16:14       ` Paul E. McKenney

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