linux-kernel - [tip: core/rcu] rcu-tasks: Convert sleeps to idle priority

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Message-ID: <159618739387.4006.1540485796816983638.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date:   Fri, 31 Jul 2020 09:23:13 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Paul E. McKenney" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: core/rcu] rcu-tasks: Convert sleeps to idle priority

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

Commit-ID:     ea6eed9f7d7382c7230202d4c3bf74185f193394
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/ea6eed9f7d7382c7230202d4c3bf74185f193394
Author:        Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 07 May 2020 16:47:13 -07:00
Committer:     Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
CommitterDate: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:00:22 -07:00

rcu-tasks: Convert sleeps to idle priority

This commit converts the long-standing schedule_timeout_interruptible()
and schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() calls used by the various Tasks
RCU's grace-period kthreads to schedule_timeout_idle().  This conversion
avoids polluting the load-average with Tasks-RCU-related sleeping.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
index ce23f6c..91fee81 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)
 			if (!rtp->cbs_head) {
 				WARN_ON(signal_pending(current));
 				set_tasks_gp_state(rtp, RTGS_WAIT_WAIT_CBS);
-				schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ/10);
+				schedule_timeout_idle(HZ/10);
 			}
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)
 			cond_resched();
 		}
 		/* Paranoid sleep to keep this from entering a tight loop */
-		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ/10);
+		schedule_timeout_idle(HZ/10);
 
 		set_tasks_gp_state(rtp, RTGS_WAIT_CBS);
 	}
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static void rcu_tasks_wait_gp(struct rcu_tasks *rtp)
 
 		/* Slowly back off waiting for holdouts */
 		set_tasks_gp_state(rtp, RTGS_WAIT_SCAN_HOLDOUTS);
-		schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ/fract);
+		schedule_timeout_idle(HZ/fract);
 
 		if (fract > 1)
 			fract--;