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rcu: Limit lazy-callback duration 

Currently, a given CPU is permitted to remain in dyntick-idle mode
indefinitely if it has only lazy RCU callbacks queued.  This is vulnerable
to corner cases in NUMA systems, so limit the time to six seconds by
default.  (Currently controlled by a cpp macro.)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney 2012-01-10 14:13:24 -08:00 committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent 091541bbdb
commit 778d250a29
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kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
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@ -2050,6 +2050,9 @@ static void rcu_prepare_for_idle(int cpu)
* number, be warned: Setting RCU_IDLE_GP_DELAY too high can hang your
* system. And if you are -that- concerned about energy efficiency,
* just power the system down and be done with it!
* RCU_IDLE_LAZY_GP_DELAY gives the number of jiffies that a CPU is
* permitted to sleep in dyntick-idle mode with only lazy RCU
* callbacks pending. Setting this too high can OOM your system.
*
* The values below work well in practice. If future workloads require
* adjustment, they can be converted into kernel config parameters, though
@ -2058,11 +2061,13 @@ static void rcu_prepare_for_idle(int cpu)
#define RCU_IDLE_FLUSHES 5 /* Number of dyntick-idle tries. */
#define RCU_IDLE_OPT_FLUSHES 3 /* Optional dyntick-idle tries. */
#define RCU_IDLE_GP_DELAY 6 /* Roughly one grace period. */
#define RCU_IDLE_LAZY_GP_DELAY (6 * HZ) /* Roughly six seconds. */
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, rcu_dyntick_drain);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, rcu_dyntick_holdoff);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer, rcu_idle_gp_timer);
static ktime_t rcu_idle_gp_wait;
static ktime_t rcu_idle_gp_wait; /* If some non-lazy callbacks. */
static ktime_t rcu_idle_lazy_gp_wait; /* If only lazy callbacks. */
/*
* Allow the CPU to enter dyntick-idle mode if either: (1) There are no
@ -2151,6 +2156,8 @@ static void rcu_prepare_for_idle_init(int cpu)
unsigned int upj = jiffies_to_usecs(RCU_IDLE_GP_DELAY);
rcu_idle_gp_wait = ns_to_ktime(upj * (u64)1000);
upj = jiffies_to_usecs(RCU_IDLE_LAZY_GP_DELAY);
rcu_idle_lazy_gp_wait = ns_to_ktime(upj * (u64)1000);
firsttime = 0;
}
}
@ -2225,6 +2232,9 @@ static void rcu_prepare_for_idle(int cpu)
if (rcu_cpu_has_nonlazy_callbacks(cpu))
hrtimer_start(&per_cpu(rcu_idle_gp_timer, cpu),
rcu_idle_gp_wait, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
else
hrtimer_start(&per_cpu(rcu_idle_gp_timer, cpu),
rcu_idle_lazy_gp_wait, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
return; /* Nothing more to do immediately. */
} else if (--per_cpu(rcu_dyntick_drain, cpu) <= 0) {
/* We have hit the limit, so time to give up. */