rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU

Currently, rcu_needs_cpu() simply checks whether the current CPU
has an outstanding RCU callback, which means that the last CPU
to go into dyntick-idle mode might wait a few ticks for the
relevant grace periods to complete.  However, if all the other
CPUs are in dyntick-idle mode, and if this CPU is in a quiescent
state (which it is for RCU-bh and RCU-sched any time that we are
considering going into dyntick-idle mode), then the grace period
is instantly complete.

This patch therefore repeatedly invokes the RCU grace-period
machinery in order to force any needed grace periods to complete
quickly.  It does so a limited number of times in order to
prevent starvation by an RCU callback function that might pass
itself to call_rcu().

However, if any CPU other than the current one is not in
dyntick-idle mode, fall back to simply checking (with fix to bug
noted by Lai Jiangshan).  Also, take advantage of last
grace-period forcing, the opportunity to do so noted by Steve
Rostedt.  And apply simplified #ifdef condition suggested by
Frederic Weisbecker.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-15-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index d95ca7cd5d4..42bf914b325 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -396,6 +396,22 @@ config RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
 
           Say N if unsure.
 
+config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
+        bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
+        depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP
+        default n
+        help
+          This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods
+          in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state
+          more quickly.  On the other hand, this option increases the
+          overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems
+          with large numbers of CPUs.
+
+          Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly
+                if you have relatively few CPUs.
+
+          Say N if you are unsure.
+
 config TREE_RCU_TRACE
         def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU )
         select DEBUG_FS