rcu: Yield simpler

The rcu_yield() code is amazing. It's there to avoid starvation of the
system when lots of (boosting) work is to be done.

Now looking at the code it's functionality is:

 Make the thread SCHED_OTHER and very nice, i.e. get it out of the way
 Arm a timer with 2 ticks
 schedule()

Now if the system goes idle the rcu task returns, regains SCHED_FIFO
and plugs on. If the systems stays busy the timer fires and wakes a
per node kthread which in turn makes the per cpu thread SCHED_FIFO and
brings it back on the cpu. For the boosting thread the "make it FIFO"
bit is missing and it just runs some magic boost checks. Now this is a
lot of code with extra threads and complexity.

It's way simpler to let the tasks when they detect overload schedule
away for 2 ticks and defer the normal wakeup as long as they are in
yielded state and the cpu is not idle.

That solves the same problem and the only difference is that when the
cpu goes idle it's not guaranteed that the thread returns right away,
but it won't be longer out than two ticks, so no harm is done. If
that's an issue than it is way simpler just to wake the task from
idle as RCU has callbacks there anyway.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120716103948.131256723@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index f280e542e3e9..f08ee3bc5741 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(char, rcu_cpu_has_work);
 
 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */
 
-static void rcu_node_kthread_setaffinity(struct rcu_node *rnp, int outgoingcpu);
+static void rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity(struct rcu_node *rnp, int outgoingcpu);
 static void invoke_rcu_core(void);
 static void invoke_rcu_callbacks(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp);
 
@@ -1469,7 +1469,7 @@ static void rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu(int cpu, struct rcu_state *rsp)
 
         /* Adjust any no-longer-needed kthreads. */
         rcu_stop_cpu_kthread(cpu);
-        rcu_node_kthread_setaffinity(rnp, -1);
+        rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity(rnp, -1);
 
         /* Remove the dead CPU from the bitmasks in the rcu_node hierarchy. */
 
@@ -2594,11 +2594,11 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
                 break;
         case CPU_ONLINE:
         case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
-                rcu_node_kthread_setaffinity(rnp, -1);
+                rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity(rnp, -1);
                 rcu_cpu_kthread_setrt(cpu, 1);
                 break;
         case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
-                rcu_node_kthread_setaffinity(rnp, cpu);
+                rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity(rnp, cpu);
                 rcu_cpu_kthread_setrt(cpu, 0);
                 break;
         case CPU_DYING: