Commit 4fd8c5f1 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney
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rcu/nocb: Reduce ->nocb_lock contention with separate ->nocb_gp_lock 



The sleep/wakeup of the no-CBs grace-period kthreads is synchronized
using the ->nocb_lock of the first CPU corresponding to that kthread.
This commit provides a separate ->nocb_gp_lock for this purpose, thus
reducing contention on ->nocb_lock.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
parent 523bddd5

kernel/rcu/tree.h

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@@ -202,7 +202,8 @@ struct rcu_data { 
	struct timer_list nocb_timer;	/* Enforce finite deferral. */



	/* The following fields are used by GP kthread, hence own cacheline. */

	bool nocb_gp_sleep ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;

	raw_spinlock_t nocb_gp_lock ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;

	bool nocb_gp_sleep;

					/* Is the nocb GP thread asleep? */

	struct swait_queue_head nocb_gp_wq; /* For nocb kthreads to sleep on. */

	bool nocb_cb_sleep;		/* Is the nocb CB thread asleep? */

kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h

+5 −4
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@@ -1604,9 +1604,9 @@ static void wake_nocb_gp(struct rcu_data *rdp, bool force, 
		del_timer(&rdp->nocb_timer);

		rcu_nocb_unlock_irqrestore(rdp, flags);

		smp_mb(); /* enqueue before ->nocb_gp_sleep. */

		rcu_nocb_lock_irqsave(rdp_gp, flags);

		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rdp_gp->nocb_gp_lock, flags);

		WRITE_ONCE(rdp_gp->nocb_gp_sleep, false);

		rcu_nocb_unlock_irqrestore(rdp_gp, flags);

		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rdp_gp->nocb_gp_lock, flags);

		wake_up_process(rdp_gp->nocb_gp_kthread);

	} else {

		rcu_nocb_unlock_irqrestore(rdp, flags);
@@ -1761,9 +1761,9 @@ static void nocb_gp_wait(struct rcu_data *my_rdp) 
		trace_rcu_this_gp(rnp, my_rdp, wait_gp_seq, TPS("EndWait"));

	}

	if (!rcu_nocb_poll) {

		rcu_nocb_lock_irqsave(my_rdp, flags);

		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&my_rdp->nocb_gp_lock, flags);

		WRITE_ONCE(my_rdp->nocb_gp_sleep, true);

		rcu_nocb_unlock_irqrestore(my_rdp, flags);

		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&my_rdp->nocb_gp_lock, flags);

	}

	WARN_ON(signal_pending(current));

}
@@ -1943,6 +1943,7 @@ static void __init rcu_boot_init_nocb_percpu_data(struct rcu_data *rdp) 
	init_swait_queue_head(&rdp->nocb_cb_wq);

	init_swait_queue_head(&rdp->nocb_gp_wq);

	raw_spin_lock_init(&rdp->nocb_lock);

	raw_spin_lock_init(&rdp->nocb_gp_lock);

	timer_setup(&rdp->nocb_timer, do_nocb_deferred_wakeup_timer, 0);

}

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