linux-kernel - [PATCH] softirq: a single rcu_bh

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Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:06:24 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] softirq: a single rcu_bh_qs() call is enough

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Calling rcu_bh_qs() after every softirq action is not really needed.

What RCU needs is at least one rcu_bh_qs() per softirq round to note a
quiescent state was passed for rcu_bh

Note for Paul and myself : this could be inlined as a single instruction
and avoid smp_processor_id()
(sone this_cpu_write(rcu_bh_data.passed_quiesce, 1))

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
 kernel/softirq.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index b50990a5bea0..b9b2d4906848 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -232,7 +232,6 @@ asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void)
 	bool in_hardirq;
 	__u32 pending;
 	int softirq_bit;
-	int cpu;
 
 	/*
 	 * Mask out PF_MEMALLOC s current task context is borrowed for the
@@ -247,7 +246,6 @@ asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void)
 	__local_bh_disable_ip(_RET_IP_, SOFTIRQ_OFFSET);
 	in_hardirq = lockdep_softirq_start();
 
-	cpu = smp_processor_id();
 restart:
 	/* Reset the pending bitmask before enabling irqs */
 	set_softirq_pending(0);
@@ -276,11 +274,11 @@ restart:
 			       prev_count, preempt_count());
 			preempt_count_set(prev_count);
 		}
-		rcu_bh_qs(cpu);
 		h++;
 		pending >>= softirq_bit;
 	}
 
+	rcu_bh_qs(smp_processor_id());
 	local_irq_disable();
 
 	pending = local_softirq_pending();


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