Re: [PATCH 1/4] rcu: Speed up calling of RCU tasks callbacks

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 24 May 2018 15:38:39 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 05:47:52PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 May 2018 13:04:58 -0700
> > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> > > Looks plausible to me!
> > >   
> > 
> > BTW looking at the code:
> >   
> > > 		/* Invoke the callbacks. */
> > > 		while (list) {
> > > 			next = list->next;
> > > 			local_bh_disable();
> > > 			list->func(list);
> > > 			local_bh_enable();
> > > 			list = next;
> > > 			cond_resched();
> > > 		}
> > > 		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ/10);  
> > 
> > What's the purpose of this final sleep?  
> 
> To avoid any possibility of rcu_tasks_kthread() getting into a tight loop.
> 

OK, so I'll send out a v4 of what I just sent out ;-)

-- Steve