Commit 0723a69a authored by Benjamin LaHaise's avatar Benjamin LaHaise Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86: fix synchronize_rcu(): high latency on idle system



an otherwise idle system takes about 3 ticks per network
interface in unregister_netdev() due to multiple calls to synchronize_rcu(),
which adds up to quite a few seconds for tearing down thousands of
interfaces.  By flushing pending rcu callbacks in the idle loop, the system
makes progress hundreds of times faster.  If this is indeed a sane thing to,
it probably needs to be done for other architectures than x86.  And yes, the
network stack shouldn't call synchronize_rcu() quite so much, but fixing that
is a little more involved.

Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 6b8be6df
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@@ -198,6 +198,9 @@ void cpu_idle(void)
			rmb();
			idle = pm_idle;

			if (rcu_pending(cpu))
				rcu_check_callbacks(cpu, 0);

			if (!idle)
				idle = default_idle;