linux-kernel - [tip: core/rcu] refperf: Simplify initialization-time wakeup protocol

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Message-ID: <159618737857.4006.14705954945397729782.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date:   Fri, 31 Jul 2020 09:22:58 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Paul E. McKenney" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: core/rcu] refperf: Simplify initialization-time wakeup protocol

The following commit has been merged into the core/rcu branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     96af8669591d740a1e2695c4d96e544409dbf896
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/96af8669591d740a1e2695c4d96e544409dbf896
Author:        Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
AuthorDate:    Wed, 27 May 2020 16:46:56 -07:00
Committer:     Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
CommitterDate: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:00:45 -07:00

refperf: Simplify initialization-time wakeup protocol

This commit moves the reader-launch wait loop from ref_perf_init()
to main_func(), removing one layer of wakeup and allowing slightly
faster system boot.

Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/refperf.c | 17 +++++------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refperf.c b/kernel/rcu/refperf.c
index 2d2d227..7839237 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/refperf.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/refperf.c
@@ -369,13 +369,14 @@ static int main_func(void *arg)
 		VERBOSE_PERFOUT_ERRSTRING("out of memory");
 		errexit = true;
 	}
-	atomic_inc(&n_init);
-
-	// Wait for all threads to start.
-	wait_event(main_wq, atomic_read(&n_init) == (nreaders + 1));
 	if (holdoff)
 		schedule_timeout_interruptible(holdoff * HZ);
 
+	// Wait for all threads to start.
+	atomic_inc(&n_init);
+	while (atomic_read(&n_init) < nreaders + 1)
+		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
+
 	// Start exp readers up per experiment
 	for (exp = 0; exp < nruns && !torture_must_stop(); exp++) {
 		if (errexit)
@@ -565,14 +566,6 @@ ref_perf_init(void)
 	firsterr = torture_create_kthread(main_func, NULL, main_task);
 	if (firsterr)
 		goto unwind;
-	schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
-
-
-	// Wait until all threads start
-	while (atomic_read(&n_init) < nreaders + 1)
-		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
-
-	wake_up(&main_wq);
 
 	torture_init_end();
 	return 0;