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| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/srcu.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 929adf6cb6b4..35518243c4bd 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -488,6 +488,21 @@ config RCU_BOOST_DELAY Accept the default if unsure. +config SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY + int "Microseconds to delay before waiting for readers" + range 0 20 + default 10 + help + This option controls how long SRCU delays before entering its + loop waiting on SRCU readers. The purpose of this loop is + to avoid the unconditional context-switch penalty that would + otherwise be incurred if there was an active SRCU reader, + in a manner similar to adaptive locking schemes. This should + be set to be a bit longer than the common-case SRCU read-side + critical-section overhead. + + Accept the default if unsure. + endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" config IKCONFIG diff --git a/kernel/srcu.c b/kernel/srcu.c index c71e07500536..98d8c1e80edb 100644 --- a/kernel/srcu.c +++ b/kernel/srcu.c @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ #include <linux/rcupdate.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/smp.h> +#include <linux/delay.h> #include <linux/srcu.h> static int init_srcu_struct_fields(struct srcu_struct *sp) @@ -203,9 +204,14 @@ static void __synchronize_srcu(struct srcu_struct *sp, void (*sync_func)(void)) * all srcu_read_lock() calls using the old counters have completed. * Their corresponding critical sections might well be still * executing, but the srcu_read_lock() primitives themselves - * will have finished executing. + * will have finished executing. We initially give readers + * an arbitrarily chosen 10 microseconds to get out of their + * SRCU read-side critical sections, then loop waiting 1/HZ + * seconds per iteration. */ + if (srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, idx)) + udelay(CONFIG_SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY); while (srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, idx)) schedule_timeout_interruptible(1); |