From 64ca5ab913f1594ef316556e65f5eae63ff50cee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:11:56 -0800 Subject: rcu: increment quiescent state counter in ksoftirqd() If a machine is flooded by network frames, a cpu can loop 100% of its time inside ksoftirqd() without calling schedule(). This can delay RCU grace period to insane values. Adding rcu_qsctr_inc() call in ksoftirqd() solves this problem. Paul: "This regression was a result of the recent change from "schedule()" to "cond_resched()", which got rid of that quiescent state in the common case where a reschedule is not needed". Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/softirq.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c index bdbe9de9cd8..9041ea7948f 100644 --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -626,6 +626,7 @@ static int ksoftirqd(void * __bind_cpu) preempt_enable_no_resched(); cond_resched(); preempt_disable(); + rcu_qsctr_inc((long)__bind_cpu); } preempt_enable(); set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); -- cgit v1.2.3 From edcb463997ed7b2ffa3bac76e3e75957318f2e01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:33:59 +0900 Subject: percpu, module: implement reserved allocation and use it for module percpu variables Impact: add reserved allocation functionality and use it for module percpu variables This patch implements reserved allocation from the first chunk. When setting up the first chunk, arch can ask to set aside certain number of bytes right after the core static area which is available only through a separate reserved allocator. This will be used primarily for module static percpu variables on architectures with limited relocation range to ensure that the module perpcu symbols are inside the relocatable range. If reserved area is requested, the first chunk becomes reserved and isn't available for regular allocation. If the first chunk also includes piggy-back dynamic allocation area, a separate chunk mapping the same region is created to serve dynamic allocation. The first one is called static first chunk and the second dynamic first chunk. Although they share the page map, their different area map initializations guarantee they serve disjoint areas according to their purposes. If arch doesn't setup reserved area, reserved allocation is handled like any other allocation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- kernel/module.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 1f0657ae555..f0e04d6b67d 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static void *percpu_modalloc(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, align = PAGE_SIZE; } - ptr = __alloc_percpu(size, align); + ptr = __alloc_reserved_percpu(size, align); if (!ptr) printk(KERN_WARNING "Could not allocate %lu bytes percpu data\n", size); -- cgit v1.2.3