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Paul E. McKenney committed 7f36ef82e5c
rcu/nocb: Avoid needless wakeups of no-CBs grace-period kthread Currently, the code provides an extra wakeup for the no-CBs grace-period kthread if one of its CPUs is generating excessive numbers of callbacks. But satisfying though it is to wake something up when things are going south, unless the thing being awakened can actually help solve the problem, that extra wakeup does nothing but consume additional CPU time, which is exactly what you don't want during a call_rcu() flood. This commit therefore avoids doing anything if the corresponding no-CBs callback kthread is going full tilt. Otherwise, if advancing callbacks immediately might help and if the leaf rcu_node structure's lock is immediately available, this commit invokes a new variant of rcu_advance_cbs() that advances callbacks only if doing so won't require awakening the grace-period kthread (not to be confused with any of the no-CBs grace-period kthreads). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>