rcu: Ignore userspace extended quiescent state by default

By default we don't want to enter into RCU extended quiescent
state while in userspace because doing this produces some overhead
(eg: use of syscall slowpath). Set it off by default and ready to
run when some feature like adaptive tickless need it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit is contained in:
Frederic Weisbecker 2012-07-11 20:26:32 +02:00
parent c5d900bf67
commit 1e1a689f10
2 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_note_context_switch);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_dynticks, rcu_dynticks) = {
.dynticks_nesting = DYNTICK_TASK_EXIT_IDLE,
.dynticks = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
.ignore_user_qs = true,
#endif
};
static int blimit = 10; /* Maximum callbacks per rcu_do_batch. */
@ -430,7 +433,7 @@ void rcu_user_enter(void)
local_irq_save(flags);
rdtp = &__get_cpu_var(rcu_dynticks);
if (!rdtp->in_user) {
if (!rdtp->ignore_user_qs && !rdtp->in_user) {
rdtp->in_user = true;
rcu_eqs_enter(1);
}

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@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ struct rcu_dynticks {
int tick_nohz_enabled_snap; /* Previously seen value from sysfs. */
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ */
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
bool ignore_user_qs; /* Treat userspace as extended QS or not */
bool in_user; /* Is the CPU in userland from RCU POV? */
#endif
};