The rcu_segcblist_accelerate() function returns true iff it is necessary
to request another grace period. A tracing session showed that this
function unnecessarily requests grace periods.
For example, consider the following sequence of events:
1. Callbacks are queued only on the NEXT segment of CPU A's callback list.
2. CPU A runs RCU_SOFTIRQ, accelerating these callbacks from NEXT to WAIT.
3. Thus rcu_segcblist_accelerate() returns true, requesting grace period N.
4. RCU's grace-period kthread wakes up on CPU B and starts grace period N.
4. CPU A notices the new grace period and invokes RCU_SOFTIRQ.
5. CPU A's RCU_SOFTIRQ again invokes rcu_segcblist_accelerate(), but
there are no new callbacks. However, rcu_segcblist_accelerate()
nevertheless (uselessly) requests a new grace period N+1.
This extra grace period results in additional lock contention and also
additional wakeups, all for no good reason.
This commit therefore adds a check to rcu_segcblist_accelerate() that
prevents the return of true when there are no new callbacks.
This change reduces the number of grace periods (GPs) and wakeups in each
of eleven five-second rcutorture runs as follows:
+----+-------------------+-------------------+
| # | Number of GPs | Number of Wakeups |
+====+=========+=========+=========+=========+
| 1 | With | Without | With | Without |
+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| 2 | 75 | 89 | 113 | 119 |
+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| 3 | 62 | 91 | 105 | 123 |
+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| 4 | 60 | 79 | 98 | 110 |
+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| 5 | 63 | 79 | 99 | 112 |
+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| 6 | 57 | 89 | 96 | 123 |
+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| 7 | 64 | 85 | 97 | 118 |
+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| 8 | 58 | 83 | 98 | 113 |
+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| 9 | 57 | 77 | 89 | 104 |
+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| 10 | 66 | 82 | 98 | 119 |
+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| 11 | 52 | 82 | 83 | 117 |
+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
The reduction in the number of wakeups ranges from 5% to 40%.
Cc: urezki@gmail.com
[ paulmck: Rework commit log and comment. ]
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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