Re: [PATCH]rcu: avoid unnecessary thread wakeup

[Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>]

On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 00:38 +0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 03:50:51PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > invoke_rcu_cpu_kthread could be called in the thread itself. In this case,
> > we don't need call wakeup, which is just wasting CPU.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
> > index 89419ff..f9bd051 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcutree.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
> > @@ -1475,7 +1475,8 @@ static void invoke_rcu_cpu_kthread(void)
> >  		local_irq_restore(flags);
> >  		return;
> >  	}
> > -	wake_up_process(__this_cpu_read(rcu_cpu_kthread_task));
> > +	if (current != __this_cpu_read(rcu_cpu_kthread_task))
> > +		wake_up_process(__this_cpu_read(rcu_cpu_kthread_task));
> >  	local_irq_restore(flags);
> >  }
> 
> Excellent point, thank you!
> 
> But how about combining the tests, perhaps something like the
> following?
> 
> Unless you have objections or spot problems with it (or it breaks during
> testing), I will queue the patch below with your SOB, since I derived
> it from your patch.
that's better, thanks.

Thanks,
Shaohua