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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-06-26 20:00:35 -0400
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-09-23 10:41:54 -0400
commit394f2769aa0dbcf027bae6fb52835e25e05d332e (patch)
tree78471127d379e8d128d73e976ce33022c195b0c5 /kernel/rcutree.h
parent4605c0143c6d611b3076025ba3a7e04293c01d69 (diff)
rcu: Prevent force_quiescent_state() memory contention
Large systems running RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels see extreme memory contention on the rcu_state structure's ->fqslock field. This can be avoided by disabling RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, either at compile time or at boot time (via the nohz kernel boot parameter), but large systems will no doubt become sensitive to energy consumption. This commit therefore uses a combining-tree approach to spread the memory contention across new cache lines in the leaf rcu_node structures. This can be thought of as a tournament lock that has only a try-lock acquisition primitive. The effect on small systems is minimal, because such systems have an rcu_node "tree" consisting of a single node. In addition, this functionality is not used on fastpaths. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h
index 7fb93cedc76a..8f0293ce1517 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.h
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ struct rcu_node {
202 /* per-CPU kthreads as needed. */ 202 /* per-CPU kthreads as needed. */
203 unsigned int node_kthread_status; 203 unsigned int node_kthread_status;
204 /* State of node_kthread_task for tracing. */ 204 /* State of node_kthread_task for tracing. */
205 raw_spinlock_t fqslock ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;
205} ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp; 206} ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;
206 207
207/* 208/*