From: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
To: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
"open list:READ-COPY UPDATE..." <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/16] rcu: Check for a nocb cpu before trying to spawn nocb threads
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:14:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJhHMCDGGTtcW2ENQowKFoujLmqum8yn5ppH1RP=kv5UU+qdPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140723122849.GN11241@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 01:09:52AM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
>> This commit tries to spawn nocb kthreads only when the CPU is marked as a nocb
>> cpu. This is a minor optimization.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
>
> This only happens once at boot time, so I am happier with the single check
> at the bottom. So sorry, but no.
>
Actually this happens whenever a CPU is coming online, but yes, it is
a minor optimization for hotplug.
> Thanx, Paul
>
>> ---
>> kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
>> index 541c776..8abff0a 100644
>> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
>> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
>> @@ -1490,7 +1490,8 @@ static void rcu_prepare_kthreads(int cpu)
>> return;
>>
>> rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(rcu_state_p, rnp);
>> - rcu_spawn_all_nocb_kthreads(cpu);
>> + if (rcu_is_nocb_cpu(cpu))
>> + rcu_spawn_all_nocb_kthreads(cpu);
>> }
>>
>> #else /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */
>> --
>> 2.0.0.rc2
>>
>
--
Pranith
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-23 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-23 5:09 [PATCH 00/16] rcu: Some minor fixes and cleanups Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 01/16] rcu: Use rcu_num_nodes instead of NUM_RCU_NODES Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 02/16] rcu: Check return value for cpumask allocation Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 12:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 12:49 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 17:14 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 18:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 03/16] rcu: Fix comment for gp_state field values Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 04/16] rcu: Remove redundant check for an online CPU Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 12:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 13:23 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 13:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 14:01 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 14:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 15:07 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 15:21 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 05/16] rcu: Add noreturn attribute to boost kthread Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 06/16] rcu: Clear gp_flags only when actually starting new gp Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 12:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 07/16] rcu: Save and restore irq flags in rcu_gp_cleanup() Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 12:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 08/16] rcu: Clean up rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread() Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 09/16] rcu: Remove redundant check for online cpu Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 12:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 12:59 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 13:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 14:12 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 14:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 15:11 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 15:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 15:44 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 19:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 20:01 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 20:16 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 20:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 10/16] rcu: Check for RCU_FLAG_GP_INIT bit in gp_flags for spurious wakeup Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 12:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 11/16] rcu: Check for spurious wakeup using return value Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 12:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-24 2:36 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-24 3:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-24 4:03 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-24 18:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-24 19:59 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-07-24 20:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 12/16] rcu: Rename rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() to rcu_spawn_kthreads() Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 13/16] rcu: Spawn nocb kthreads from rcu_prepare_kthreads() Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 14/16] rcu: Remove redundant checks for rcu_scheduler_fully_active Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 12:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 15/16] rcu: Check for a nocb cpu before trying to spawn nocb threads Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 12:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 13:14 ` Pranith Kumar [this message]
2014-07-23 13:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 5:09 ` [PATCH 16/16] rcu: kvm.sh: Fix error when you pass --cpus argument Pranith Kumar
2014-07-23 12:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-23 14:45 ` [PATCH 00/16] rcu: Some minor fixes and cleanups Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-27 1:10 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-08-27 3:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
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