linux/Documentation/RCU/Design/Data-Structures
Paul E. McKenney 0f9be8cabb rcu: Eliminate flavor scan in rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle()
The rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() function scans the RCU flavors, checking
that one of them still needs a quiescent state before doing an expensive
atomic operation on the ->dynticks counter.  However, this check reduces
overhead only after a rare race condition, and increases complexity.  This
commit therefore removes the scan and the mechanism enabling the scan.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18 11:38:18 -07:00
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BigTreeClassicRCU.svg documentation: Add documentation for RCU's major data structures 2016-04-19 14:48:12 -07:00
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BigTreePreemptRCUBHdyntick.svg documentation: Add documentation for RCU's major data structures 2016-04-19 14:48:12 -07:00
BigTreePreemptRCUBHdyntickCB.svg documentation: Add documentation for RCU's major data structures 2016-04-19 14:48:12 -07:00
blkd_task.svg documentation: Add documentation for RCU's major data structures 2016-04-19 14:48:12 -07:00
Data-Structures.html rcu: Eliminate flavor scan in rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() 2017-04-18 11:38:18 -07:00
HugeTreeClassicRCU.svg documentation: Add documentation for RCU's major data structures 2016-04-19 14:48:12 -07:00
nxtlist.svg documentation: Add documentation for RCU's major data structures 2016-04-19 14:48:12 -07:00
TreeLevel.svg documentation: Add documentation for RCU's major data structures 2016-04-19 14:48:12 -07:00
TreeMapping.svg documentation: Add documentation for RCU's major data structures 2016-04-19 14:48:12 -07:00
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