rcu: More aggressively enlist scheduler aid for nohz_full CPUs

Because nohz_full CPUs can leave the scheduler-clock interrupt disabled
even when in kernel mode, RCU cannot rely on rcu_check_callbacks() to
enlist the scheduler's aid in extracting a quiescent state from such CPUs.
This commit therefore more aggressively uses resched_cpu() on nohz_full
CPUs that fail to pass through a quiescent state in a timely manner.
By default, the resched_cpu() beating starts 300 milliseconds into the
quiescent state.

While in the neighborhood, add a ->last_fqs_resched field to the rcu_data
structure in order to rate-limit resched_cpu() calls from the RCU
grace-period kthread.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-25 11:49:47 -07:00
parent c06aed0e31
commit d3052109c0
3 changed files with 28 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ struct rcu_data {
short rcu_ofl_gp_flags; /* ->gp_flags at last offline. */
unsigned long rcu_onl_gp_seq; /* ->gp_seq at last online. */
short rcu_onl_gp_flags; /* ->gp_flags at last online. */
unsigned long last_fqs_resched; /* Time of last rcu_resched(). */
int cpu;
};