rcu: reduce the number of spurious RCU_SOFTIRQ invocations
Lai Jiangshan noted that up to 10% of the RCU_SOFTIRQ are spurious, and
traced this down to the fact that the current grace-period machinery
will uselessly raise RCU_SOFTIRQ when a given CPU needs to go through
a quiescent state, but has not yet done so. In this situation, there
might well be nothing that RCU_SOFTIRQ can do, and the overhead can be
worth worrying about in the ksoftirqd case. This patch therefore avoids
raising RCU_SOFTIRQ in this situation.
Changes since v1 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/30/122 from Lai Jiangshan):
o Omit the rcu_qs_pending() prechecks, as they aren't that
much less expensive than the quiescent-state checks.
o Merge with the set_need_resched() patch that reduces IPIs.
o Add the new n_rp_report_qs field to the rcu_pending tracing output.
o Update the tracing documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_trace.c b/kernel/rcutree_trace.c
index d45db2e..36c95b4 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_trace.c
@@ -241,11 +241,13 @@
static void print_one_rcu_pending(struct seq_file *m, struct rcu_data *rdp)
{
seq_printf(m, "%3d%cnp=%ld "
- "qsp=%ld cbr=%ld cng=%ld gpc=%ld gps=%ld nf=%ld nn=%ld\n",
+ "qsp=%ld rpq=%ld cbr=%ld cng=%ld "
+ "gpc=%ld gps=%ld nf=%ld nn=%ld\n",
rdp->cpu,
cpu_is_offline(rdp->cpu) ? '!' : ' ',
rdp->n_rcu_pending,
rdp->n_rp_qs_pending,
+ rdp->n_rp_report_qs,
rdp->n_rp_cb_ready,
rdp->n_rp_cpu_needs_gp,
rdp->n_rp_gp_completed,
