[PATCH v3 tip/core/rcu 8/9] rcu: Improve RCU-tasks energy efficiency

[Paul E. McKenney]

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The current RCU-tasks implementation uses strict polling to detect
callback arrivals.  This works quite well, but is not so good for
energy efficiency.  This commit therefore replaces the strict polling
with a wait queue.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/rcu/update.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/update.c b/kernel/rcu/update.c
index e940b86af4e8..f14a79d0d6de 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/update.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c
@@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(rcu_tasks_holdouts);
 /* Global list of callbacks and associated lock. */
 static struct rcu_head *rcu_tasks_cbs_head;
 static struct rcu_head **rcu_tasks_cbs_tail = &rcu_tasks_cbs_head;
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(rcu_tasks_cbs_wq);
 static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(rcu_tasks_cbs_lock);
 
 /* Control stall timeouts.  Disable with <= 0, otherwise jiffies till stall. */
@@ -381,13 +382,17 @@ module_param(rcu_task_stall_timeout, int, 0644);
 void call_rcu_tasks(struct rcu_head *rhp, void (*func)(struct rcu_head *rhp))
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
+	bool needwake;
 
 	rhp->next = NULL;
 	rhp->func = func;
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rcu_tasks_cbs_lock, flags);
+	needwake = !rcu_tasks_cbs_head;
 	*rcu_tasks_cbs_tail = rhp;
 	rcu_tasks_cbs_tail = &rhp->next;
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rcu_tasks_cbs_lock, flags);
+	if (needwake)
+		wake_up(&rcu_tasks_cbs_wq);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu_tasks);
 
@@ -498,8 +503,12 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)
 
 		/* If there were none, wait a bit and start over. */
 		if (!list) {
-			schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ);
-			flush_signals(current);
+			wait_event_interruptible(rcu_tasks_cbs_wq,
+						 rcu_tasks_cbs_head);
+			if (!rcu_tasks_cbs_head) {
+				flush_signals(current);
+				schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ/10);
+			}
 			continue;
 		}
 
@@ -591,6 +600,7 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)
 			list = next;
 			cond_resched();
 		}
+		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ/10);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
1.8.1.5

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