lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-Id: <1406092194-13004-16-git-send-email-bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 2014 01:09:52 -0400
From:	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list:READ-COPY UPDATE...)
Subject: [PATCH 15/16] rcu: Check for a nocb cpu before trying to spawn nocb threads

This commit tries to spawn nocb kthreads only when the CPU is marked as a nocb
cpu. This is a minor optimization.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 541c776..8abff0a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -1490,7 +1490,8 @@ static void rcu_prepare_kthreads(int cpu)
 		return;
 
 	rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(rcu_state_p, rnp);
-	rcu_spawn_all_nocb_kthreads(cpu);
+	if (rcu_is_nocb_cpu(cpu))
+		rcu_spawn_all_nocb_kthreads(cpu);
 }
 
 #else /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */
-- 
2.0.0.rc2

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ