From patchwork Sun May 1 13:20:49 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Paul E. McKenney" X-Patchwork-Id: 1242 Return-Path: Delivered-To: unknown Received: from imap.gmail.com (74.125.159.109) by localhost6.localdomain6 with IMAP4-SSL; 08 Jun 2011 14:50:31 -0000 Delivered-To: patches@linaro.org Received: by 10.224.2.73 with SMTP id 9cs230847qai; Sun, 1 May 2011 06:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.91.10.15 with SMTP id n15mr5455517agi.77.1304256136078; Sun, 01 May 2011 06:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com (e4.ny.us.ibm.com [32.97.182.144]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n9si14523793ann.163.2011.05.01.06.22.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 01 May 2011 06:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com designates 32.97.182.144 as permitted sender) client-ip=32.97.182.144; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com designates 32.97.182.144 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e4.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p41D1l7R007758; Sun, 1 May 2011 09:01:47 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id p41DMFbq094030; Sun, 1 May 2011 09:22:15 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id p41DMCOg019101; Sun, 1 May 2011 09:22:15 -0400 Received: from paulmck-ThinkPad-W500 (sig-9-65-224-93.mts.ibm.com [9.65.224.93]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVin) with ESMTP id p41DMB99019036; Sun, 1 May 2011 09:22:12 -0400 Received: by paulmck-ThinkPad-W500 (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0E6B613F7D8; Sun, 1 May 2011 06:22:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, patches@linaro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" , "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/86] rcu: avoid hammering sched with yet another bound RT kthread Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 06:20:49 -0700 Message-Id: <1304256126-26015-9-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.2 In-Reply-To: <20110501132142.GA25494@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20110501132142.GA25494@linux.vnet.ibm.com> From: Paul E. McKenney The scheduler does not appear to take kindly to having multiple real-time threads bound to a CPU that is going offline. So this commit is a temporary hack-around to avoid that happening. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutorture.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcutorture.c index c224da4..4d256db 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutorture.c +++ b/kernel/rcutorture.c @@ -163,11 +163,11 @@ static int stutter_pause_test; #endif int rcutorture_runnable = RCUTORTURE_RUNNABLE_INIT; -#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST +#if defined(CONFIG_RCU_BOOST) && !defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) #define rcu_can_boost() 1 -#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */ +#else /* #if defined(CONFIG_RCU_BOOST) && !defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) */ #define rcu_can_boost() 0 -#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */ +#endif /* #else #if defined(CONFIG_RCU_BOOST) && !defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) */ static unsigned long boost_starttime; /* jiffies of next boost test start. */ DEFINE_MUTEX(boost_mutex); /* protect setting boost_starttime */