rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks
authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:30:36 +0000 (11:30 -0800)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:04:51 +0000 (08:04 -0700)
commitc0f4dfd4f90f1667d234d21f15153ea09a2eaa66
treee06fa6eef015a373849855249752ec525ca8ad4b
parentb11cc5760a9c48c870ad286e8a6d8fdb998fa58d
rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks

Because RCU callbacks are now associated with the number of the grace
period that they must wait for, CPUs can now take advance callbacks
corresponding to grace periods that ended while a given CPU was in
dyntick-idle mode.  This eliminates the need to try forcing the RCU
state machine while entering idle, thus reducing the CPU intensiveness
of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, which should increase its energy efficiency.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
include/linux/rcupdate.h
init/Kconfig
kernel/rcutree.c
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
kernel/rcutree_trace.c