rcu: Ignore userspace extended quiescent state by default

By default we don't want to enter into RCU extended quiescent
state while in userspace because doing this produces some overhead
(eg: use of syscall slowpath). Set it off by default and ready to
run when some feature like adaptive tickless need it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Geoff Levand <[email protected]>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <[email protected]>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <[email protected]>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
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Frederic Weisbecker 2012-07-11 20:26:32 +02:00
commit 1e1a689f10
2 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_note_context_switch);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_dynticks, rcu_dynticks) = {
.dynticks_nesting = DYNTICK_TASK_EXIT_IDLE,
.dynticks = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
.ignore_user_qs = true,
#endif
};
static int blimit = 10; /* Maximum callbacks per rcu_do_batch. */
@ -430,7 +433,7 @@ void rcu_user_enter(void)
local_irq_save(flags);
rdtp = &__get_cpu_var(rcu_dynticks);
if (!rdtp->in_user) {
if (!rdtp->ignore_user_qs && !rdtp->in_user) {
rdtp->in_user = true;
rcu_eqs_enter(1);
}