linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/10] rcu/nocb: Round down for number of no-CBs grace-period kthreads

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Date:   Thu,  1 Aug 2019 16:16:31 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/10] rcu/nocb: Round down for number of no-CBs grace-period kthreads

Currently, when the square root of the number of CPUs is rounded down
by int_sqrt(), this round-down is applied to the number of callback
kthreads per grace-period kthreads.  This makes almost no difference
for large systems, but results in oddities such as three no-CBs
grace-period kthreads for a five-CPU system, which is a bit excessive.
This commit therefore causes the round-down to apply to the number of
no-CBs grace-period kthreads, so that systems with from four to eight
CPUs have only two no-CBs grace period kthreads.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index b6d9ed169edc..06b4fe275b3a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -2026,7 +2026,7 @@ static void __init rcu_organize_nocb_kthreads(void)
 	if (!cpumask_available(rcu_nocb_mask))
 		return;
 	if (ls == -1) {
-		ls = int_sqrt(nr_cpu_ids);
+		ls = nr_cpu_ids / int_sqrt(nr_cpu_ids);
 		rcu_nocb_gp_stride = ls;
 	}

-- 
2.17.1