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Paul E. McKenney 1e9a038b7f srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention
Commit f60d231a87 ("srcu: Crude control of expedited grace periods")
introduced a per-srcu_struct atomic counter to track outstanding
requests for grace periods.  This works, but represents a memory-contention
bottleneck.  This commit therefore uses the srcu_node combining tree
to remove this bottleneck.

This commit adds new ->srcu_gp_seq_needed_exp fields to the
srcu_data, srcu_node, and srcu_struct structures, which track the
farthest-in-the-future grace period that must be expedited, which in
turn requires that all nearer-term grace periods also be expedited.
Requests for expediting start with the srcu_data structure, run up
through the srcu_node tree, and end at the srcu_struct structure.
Note that it may be necessary to expedite a grace period that just
now started, and this is handled by a new srcu_funnel_exp_start()
function, which is invoked when the grace period itself is already
in its way, but when that grace period was not marked as expedited.

A new srcu_get_delay() function returns zero if there is at least one
expedited SRCU grace period in flight, or SRCU_INTERVAL otherwise.
This function is used to calculate delays:  Normal grace periods
are allowed to extend in order to cover more requests with a given
grace-period computation, which decreases per-request overhead.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2017-04-26 16:32:16 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2017-04-23 11:12:44 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix potential oops with polling and blk-mq scheduler 2017-04-20 14:53:28 -06:00
certs
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-04-18 09:03:50 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2017-04-23 11:12:44 +02:00
drivers Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2017-04-23 11:12:44 +02:00
firmware
fs Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2017-04-23 11:12:44 +02:00
include srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention 2017-04-26 16:32:16 -07:00
init srcu: Make SRCU be built by default 2017-04-24 08:36:02 -07:00
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kernel srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention 2017-04-26 16:32:16 -07:00
lib sparc64: Use LOCKDEP_SMALL, not PROVE_LOCKING_SMALL 2017-04-18 13:11:07 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2017-04-23 11:12:44 +02:00
net Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2017-04-23 11:12:44 +02:00
samples statx: Include a mask for stx_attributes in struct statx 2017-04-03 01:06:00 -04:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v4.11 2017-04-05 08:37:28 -07:00
security KEYS: fix keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() to not leak thread keyrings 2017-04-18 15:31:49 +01:00
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tools Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2017-04-23 11:12:44 +02:00
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Makefile Linux 4.11-rc7 2017-04-16 13:00:18 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.