linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFC, tip/core/rcu] v3 scalable classic RCU implementation

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Date:	Mon, 1 Sep 2008 18:05:44 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, manfred@...orfullife.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, josht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, schamp@....com,
	niv@...ibm.com, dvhltc@...ibm.com, ego@...ibm.com,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC, tip/core/rcu] v3 scalable classic RCU
	implementation

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:38:29AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> >  
> > -#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ)
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ)
> >  extern void rcu_irq_enter(void);
> >  extern void rcu_irq_exit(void);
> >  #else
> >  # define rcu_irq_enter() do { } while (0)
> >  # define rcu_irq_exit() do { } while (0)
> > -#endif /* CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU */
> > +#endif /* #if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ) */
> 
> It would be better if you hung rcu_irq_enter in the irq_enter() if 
> statement that checks if the task was idle or not. This way it would
> be zero overhead for interruptions of non busy CPUs, keeping 
> it out of many fast paths.
> 
> Haven't read everything, sorry.

So that I lose the #else above, and so that irq_enter() and irq_exit()
look something like the following (with additional adjustments to suit)?
Makes a lot of sense to me...

And it has the very nice side effect of allowing me to have a separate
rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_nmi_enter(), trivializing the RCU-dynticks
interface!!!  Very cool, thank you very much!!!

							Thanx, Paul

void irq_enter(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
	if (idle_cpu(cpu) && !in_interrupt())
		tick_nohz_stop_idle(cpu);
#endif
	__irq_enter();
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
	if (idle_cpu(cpu)) {
		rcu_irq_enter();
		tick_nohz_update_jiffies();
	}
#endif
}

void irq_exit(void)
{
	account_system_vtime(current);
	trace_hardirq_exit();
	sub_preempt_count(IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET);
	if (!in_interrupt() && local_softirq_pending())
		invoke_softirq();

#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
	/* Make sure that timer wheel updates are propagated */
	if (idle_cpu(smp_processor_id())) {
		if (!in_interrupt() && !need_resched())
			tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(0);
		rcu_irq_exit();
	}
#endif
	preempt_enable_no_resched();
}
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