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Lai Jiangshan committed 5f6130fa52e
tiny_rcu: Directly force QS when call_rcu_[bh|sched]() on idle_task For RCU in UP, context-switch = QS = GP, thus we can force a context-switch when any call_rcu_[bh|sched]() is happened on idle_task. After doing so, rcu_idle/irq_enter/exit() are useless, so we can simply make these functions empty. More important, this change does not change the functionality logically. Note: raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ)/rcu_sched_qs() in rcu_idle_enter() and outmost rcu_irq_exit() will have to wake up the ksoftirqd (due to in_interrupt() == 0). Before this patch After this patch: call_rcu_sched() in idle; call_rcu_sched() in idle set resched do other stuffs; do other stuffs outmost rcu_irq_exit() outmost rcu_irq_exit() (empty function) (or rcu_idle_enter()) (or rcu_idle_enter(), also empty function) start to resched. (see above) rcu_sched_qs() rcu_sched_qs() QS,and GP and advance cb QS,and GP and advance cb wake up the ksoftirqd wake up the ksoftirqd set resched resched to ksoftirqd (or other) resched to ksoftirqd (or other) These two code patches are almost the same. Size changed after patched: size kernel/rcu/tiny-old.o kernel/rcu/tiny-patched.o text data bss dec hex filename 3449 206 8 3663 e4f kernel/rcu/tiny-old.o 2406 144 8 2558 9fe kernel/rcu/tiny-patched.o Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>