[PATCH 16/32] rcu: Restart the tick on non-responding adaptive nohz CPUs

Frederic Weisbecker fweisbec at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 13:58:22 UTC 2012


When a CPU in adaptive nohz mode doesn't respond to complete
a grace period, issue it a specific IPI so that it restarts
the tick and chases a quiescent state.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani at kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi at redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad at benyossef.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk at qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation at gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Zen Lin <zen at openhuawei.org>
---
 kernel/rcutree.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index e141c7e..3fffc26 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 #include <linux/wait.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/prefetch.h>
+#include <linux/cpuset.h>
 
 #include "rcutree.h"
 #include <trace/events/rcu.h>
@@ -302,6 +303,20 @@ static struct rcu_node *rcu_get_root(struct rcu_state *rsp)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 
+static void cpuset_update_rcu_cpu(int cpu)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS_NO_HZ
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+
+	if (cpuset_cpu_adaptive_nohz(cpu))
+		smp_cpuset_update_nohz(cpu);
+
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+#endif
+}
+
 /*
  * If the specified CPU is offline, tell the caller that it is in
  * a quiescent state.  Otherwise, whack it with a reschedule IPI.
@@ -325,6 +340,8 @@ static int rcu_implicit_offline_qs(struct rcu_data *rdp)
 		return 1;
 	}
 
+	cpuset_update_rcu_cpu(rdp->cpu);
+
 	/*
 	 * The CPU is online, so send it a reschedule IPI.  This forces
 	 * it through the scheduler, and (inefficiently) also handles cases
-- 
1.7.5.4




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