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Currently, rcu_read_unlock_special() will do wakeups whenever it is safe to do so. However, wakeups are expensive, and they are only really needed when the just-ended RCU read-side critical section is blocking an expedited grace period (in which case speed is of the essence) or on a nohz_full CPU (where it might be a good long time before an interrupt arrives). This commit therefore checks for these conditions, and does the expensive wakeups only if doing so would be useful. Note it can be rather expensive to determine whether or not the current task (as opposed to the current CPU) is blocking the current expedited grace period. Doing so requires traversing the ->blkd_tasks list, which can be quite long. This commit therefore cheats: If the current task is on a given ->blkd_tasks list, and some task on that list is blocking the current expedited grace period, the code assumes that the current task is blocking that expedited grace period. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
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