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author | Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> | 2012-01-06 14:11:30 -0800 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-02-21 09:03:25 -0800 |
commit | 486e259340fc4c60474f2c14703e3b3634bb58ca (patch) | |
tree | 70a58702194588fa0773463523f72c682785d040 /README | |
parent | 0bb7b59d6e2b8440cd7097097dd4bbfc4d76ed07 (diff) | |
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rcu: Avoid waking up CPUs having only kfree_rcu() callbacks
When CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is enabled, RCU will allow a given CPU to
enter dyntick-idle mode even if it still has RCU callbacks queued.
RCU avoids system hangs in this case by scheduling a timer for several
jiffies in the future. However, if all of the callbacks on that CPU
are from kfree_rcu(), there is no reason to wake the CPU up, as it is
not a problem to defer freeing of memory.
This commit therefore tracks the number of callbacks on a given CPU
that are from kfree_rcu(), and avoids scheduling the timer if all of
a given CPU's callbacks are from kfree_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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