Commit efcd2d54 authored by Byungchul Park's avatar Byungchul Park Committed by Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Call wake_nocb_leader_defer() with 'FORCE' when nocb_q_count is high

If an excessive number of callbacks have been queued, but the NOCB
leader kthread's wakeup must be deferred, then we should wake up the
leader unconditionally once it is safe to do so.

This was handled correctly in commit fbce7497 ("rcu: Parallelize and
economize NOCB kthread wakeups"), but then commit 8be6e1b1 ("rcu:
Use timer as backstop for NOCB deferred wakeups") passed RCU_NOCB_WAKE
instead of the correct RCU_NOCB_WAKE_FORCE to wake_nocb_leader_defer().
As an interesting aside, RCU_NOCB_WAKE_FORCE is never passed to anything,
which should have been taken as a hint.  ;-)

This commit therefore passes RCU_NOCB_WAKE_FORCE instead of RCU_NOCB_WAKE
to wake_nocb_leader_defer() when a callback is queued onto a NOCB CPU
that already has an excessive number of callbacks pending.
Signed-off-by: default avatarByungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
parent ef126206
......@@ -1957,7 +1957,7 @@ static void __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue(struct rcu_data *rdp,
trace_rcu_nocb_wake(rdp->rsp->name, rdp->cpu,
TPS("WakeOvf"));
} else {
wake_nocb_leader_defer(rdp, RCU_NOCB_WAKE,
wake_nocb_leader_defer(rdp, RCU_NOCB_WAKE_FORCE,
TPS("WakeOvfIsDeferred"));
}
rdp->qlen_last_fqs_check = LONG_MAX / 2;
......
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