mainlining shenanigans
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Currently the RCU callbacks for no-CBs CPUs are queued on a series of ad-hoc linked lists, which means that these callbacks cannot benefit from "drive-by" grace periods, thus suffering needless delays prior to invocation. In addition, the no-CBs grace-period kthreads first wait for callbacks to appear and later wait for a new grace period, which means that callbacks appearing during a grace-period wait can be delayed. These delays increase memory footprint, and could even result in an out-of-memory condition. This commit therefore enqueues RCU callbacks from no-CBs CPUs on the rcu_segcblist structure that is already used by non-no-CBs CPUs. It also restructures the no-CBs grace-period kthread to be checking for incoming callbacks while waiting for grace periods. Also, instead of waiting for a new grace period, it waits for the closest grace period that will cause some of the callbacks to be safe to invoke. All of these changes reduce callback latency and thus the number of outstanding callbacks, in turn reducing the probability of an out-of-memory condition. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> |
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Linux kernel
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