From 486e259340fc4c60474f2c14703e3b3634bb58ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:11:30 -0800 Subject: rcu: Avoid waking up CPUs having only kfree_rcu() callbacks When CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is enabled, RCU will allow a given CPU to enter dyntick-idle mode even if it still has RCU callbacks queued. RCU avoids system hangs in this case by scheduling a timer for several jiffies in the future. However, if all of the callbacks on that CPU are from kfree_rcu(), there is no reason to wake the CPU up, as it is not a problem to defer freeing of memory. This commit therefore tracks the number of callbacks on a given CPU that are from kfree_rcu(), and avoids scheduling the timer if all of a given CPU's callbacks are from kfree_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/rcupdate.h') diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h index 81c04f4348ec..a67d5f1072ea 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ void __kfree_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, unsigned long offset) /* See the kfree_rcu() header comment. */ BUILD_BUG_ON(!__is_kfree_rcu_offset(offset)); - call_rcu(head, (rcu_callback)offset); + kfree_call_rcu(head, (rcu_callback)offset); } /** -- cgit v1.2.3