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Paul E. McKenney 1d5a81c18d rcu/nocb: Reduce nocb_cb_wait() leaf rcu_node ->lock contention
Currently, nocb_cb_wait() advances callbacks on each pass through its
loop, though only if it succeeds in conditionally acquiring its leaf
rcu_node structure's ->lock.  Despite the conditional acquisition of
->lock, this does increase contention.  This commit therefore avoids
advancing callbacks unless there are callbacks in ->cblist whose grace
period has completed.

Note that nocb_cb_wait() doesn't worry about callbacks that have not
yet been assigned a grace period.  The idea is that the only reason for
nocb_cb_wait() to advance callbacks is to allow it to continue invoking
callbacks.  Time will tell whether this is the correct choice.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-08-13 14:38:24 -07:00
arch Merge branches 'consolidate.2019.08.01b', 'fixes.2019.08.12a', 'lists.2019.08.13a' and 'torture.2019.08.01b' into HEAD 2019-08-13 14:30:30 -07:00
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certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
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Documentation rcu/nocb: Rename rcu_nocb_leader_stride kernel boot parameter 2019-08-13 14:32:39 -07:00
drivers acpi: Use built-in RCU list checking for acpi_ioremaps list 2019-08-13 14:29:22 -07:00
fs SPDX fixes for 5.3-rc2 2019-07-28 10:00:06 -07:00
include rcu/nocb: Atomic ->len field in rcu_segcblist structure 2019-08-13 14:35:49 -07:00
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lib test_firmware: fix a memory leak bug 2019-07-25 14:39:52 +02:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.