linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 11/12] rcu: Locally accelerate callbacks as long as offloading isn't complete

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Message-Id: <20200921124351.24035-12-frederic@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:43:50 +0200
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To:     "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 11/12] rcu: Locally accelerate callbacks as long as offloading isn't complete

I have no idea what I'm doing but doing that looks necessary to me.

Inspired-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 928907e9ba94..8cef5ea8d1f0 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -2619,7 +2619,6 @@ static __latent_entropy void rcu_core(void)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	struct rcu_data *rdp = raw_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data);
 	struct rcu_node *rnp = rdp->mynode;
-	const bool offloaded = rcu_segcblist_is_offloaded(&rdp->cblist);
 	const bool do_batch = !rcu_segcblist_completely_offloaded(&rdp->cblist);
 
 	if (cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id()))
@@ -2640,11 +2639,11 @@ static __latent_entropy void rcu_core(void)
 
 	/* No grace period and unregistered callbacks? */
 	if (!rcu_gp_in_progress() &&
-	    rcu_segcblist_is_enabled(&rdp->cblist) && !offloaded) {
-		local_irq_save(flags);
+	    rcu_segcblist_is_enabled(&rdp->cblist) && do_batch) {
+		rcu_nocb_lock_irqsave(rdp, flags);
 		if (!rcu_segcblist_restempty(&rdp->cblist, RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL))
 			rcu_accelerate_cbs_unlocked(rnp, rdp);
-		local_irq_restore(flags);
+		rcu_nocb_unlock_irqrestore(rdp, flags);
 	}
 
 	rcu_check_gp_start_stall(rnp, rdp, rcu_jiffies_till_stall_check());
-- 
2.28.0