[PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 07/18] rcu: Add long-term CPU kicking

Paul E. McKenney
2017-01-18T06:05:12Z

Commit d2db185bfee8 ("rcu: Remove short-term CPU kicking") removed
frequent calls to resched_cpu(), which means that the only time
resched_cpu() is invoked is after an RCU CPU stall warning. Although
this is good from an avoid-IPIs perspective, we should try to break
things loose -before- splatting. This commit therefore starts invoking
resched_cpu() for each holdout at each force-quiescent-state interval
that is more than halfway through the stall-warning interval.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
kernel/rcu/tree.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 83bf054e194e..0e61b62e3f4a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1225,6 +1225,12 @@ static int rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs(struct rcu_data *rdp,
rdp->rsp->gp_start + 2 * jiffies_till_sched_qs) ||
ULONG_CMP_GE(jiffies, rdp->rsp->gp_start + jiffies_till_sched_qs))
resched_cpu(rdp->cpu); /* Force CPU into scheduler. */
+ /*
+ * If more than halfway to RCU CPU stall-warning time, do
+ * a resched_cpu() to try to loosen things up a bit.
+ */
+ if (jiffies - rdp->rsp->gp_start > rcu_jiffies_till_stall_check() / 2)
+ resched_cpu(rdp->cpu);

return 0;
}
--
2.5.2