[PATCH v7 tip/core/rcu 09/17] rcu: Improve RCU-tasks energy efficiency

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Aug 28 2014 - 15:20:41 EST


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 bad7dbd4c2e3..444c8a303963 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/update.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c
@@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ early_initcall(check_cpu_stall_init);
/* 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);

/* Track exiting tasks in order to allow them to be waited for. */
@@ -378,13 +379,17 @@ 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);

@@ -495,8 +500,12 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)

/* If there were none, wait a bit and start over. */
if (!list) {
- schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ);
- WARN_ON(signal_pending(current));
+ wait_event_interruptible(rcu_tasks_cbs_wq,
+ rcu_tasks_cbs_head);
+ if (!rcu_tasks_cbs_head) {
+ WARN_ON(signal_pending(current));
+ schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ/10);
+ }
continue;
}

@@ -602,6 +611,7 @@ 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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