From d21670acab9fcb4bc74a40b68a6941059234c55c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:39:26 -0700 Subject: rcu: reduce the number of spurious RCU_SOFTIRQ invocations Lai Jiangshan noted that up to 10% of the RCU_SOFTIRQ are spurious, and traced this down to the fact that the current grace-period machinery will uselessly raise RCU_SOFTIRQ when a given CPU needs to go through a quiescent state, but has not yet done so. In this situation, there might well be nothing that RCU_SOFTIRQ can do, and the overhead can be worth worrying about in the ksoftirqd case. This patch therefore avoids raising RCU_SOFTIRQ in this situation. Changes since v1 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/30/122 from Lai Jiangshan): o Omit the rcu_qs_pending() prechecks, as they aren't that much less expensive than the quiescent-state checks. o Merge with the set_need_resched() patch that reduces IPIs. o Add the new n_rp_report_qs field to the rcu_pending tracing output. o Update the tracing documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutree_trace.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree_trace.c') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_trace.c b/kernel/rcutree_trace.c index d45db2e35d27..36c95b45738e 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree_trace.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree_trace.c @@ -241,11 +241,13 @@ static const struct file_operations rcugp_fops = { static void print_one_rcu_pending(struct seq_file *m, struct rcu_data *rdp) { seq_printf(m, "%3d%cnp=%ld " - "qsp=%ld cbr=%ld cng=%ld gpc=%ld gps=%ld nf=%ld nn=%ld\n", + "qsp=%ld rpq=%ld cbr=%ld cng=%ld " + "gpc=%ld gps=%ld nf=%ld nn=%ld\n", rdp->cpu, cpu_is_offline(rdp->cpu) ? '!' : ' ', rdp->n_rcu_pending, rdp->n_rp_qs_pending, + rdp->n_rp_report_qs, rdp->n_rp_cb_ready, rdp->n_rp_cpu_needs_gp, rdp->n_rp_gp_completed, -- cgit v1.2.3