linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/5] srcu: No need to advance/accelerate if no callback enqueued

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Message-ID: <20231003232903.7109-5-frederic@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed,  4 Oct 2023 01:29:02 +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>,
        Yong He <zhuangel570@...il.com>,
        Neeraj upadhyay <neeraj.iitr10@...il.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>, RCU <rcu@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] srcu: No need to advance/accelerate if no callback enqueued

While in grace period start, there is nothing to accelerate and
therefore no need to advance the callbacks either if no callback is
to be enqueued.

Spare these needless operations in this case.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
index e9356a103626..2bfc8ed1eed2 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
@@ -1261,9 +1261,11 @@ static unsigned long srcu_gp_start_if_needed(struct srcu_struct *ssp,
 	 *     period (gp_num = X + 8). So acceleration fails.
 	 */
 	s = rcu_seq_snap(&ssp->srcu_sup->srcu_gp_seq);
-	rcu_segcblist_advance(&sdp->srcu_cblist,
-			      rcu_seq_current(&ssp->srcu_sup->srcu_gp_seq));
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_segcblist_accelerate(&sdp->srcu_cblist, s) && rhp);
+	if (rhp) {
+		rcu_segcblist_advance(&sdp->srcu_cblist,
+				      rcu_seq_current(&ssp->srcu_sup->srcu_gp_seq));
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_segcblist_accelerate(&sdp->srcu_cblist, s));
+	}
 	if (ULONG_CMP_LT(sdp->srcu_gp_seq_needed, s)) {
 		sdp->srcu_gp_seq_needed = s;
 		needgp = true;
-- 
2.41.0