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Paul E. McKenney 65963d2461 rcu: Make expedited RCU CPU selection avoid unnecessary stores
This commit reworks the first loop in sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus()
to avoid doing unnecssary stores to other CPUs' rcu_data
structures.  This speeds up that first loop by roughly a factor of
two on an old x86 system.  In the case where the system is mostly
idle, this loop incurs a large fraction of the overhead of the
synchronize_rcu_expedited().  There is less benefit on busy systems
because the overhead of the smp_call_function_single() in the second
loop dominates in that case.

However, it is not unusual to do configuration chances involving
RCU grace periods (both expedited and normal) while the system is
mostly idle, so this optimization is worth doing.

While we are in the area, this commit also adds parentheses to arguments
used by the for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu() macro.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-02-20 16:12:29 -08:00
Documentation sched/isolation: Eliminate NO_HZ_FULL_ALL 2018-02-15 15:40:37 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
arch unify {de,}mangle_poll(), get rid of kernel-side POLL... 2018-02-11 14:37:22 -08:00
block vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
drivers vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
include rcu: Trace expedited GP delays due to transitioning CPUs 2018-02-20 16:12:28 -08:00
init membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE 2018-02-05 21:35:03 +01:00
ipc vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
kernel rcu: Make expedited RCU CPU selection avoid unnecessary stores 2018-02-20 16:12:29 -08:00
lib Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
mm vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
net vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
samples sample/bpf: fix erspan metadata 2018-02-06 11:32:49 -05:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
security vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
sound vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
tools doc: Fix typo in rcutorture documentation 2018-02-20 16:10:19 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.16-rc1 2018-02-11 15:04:29 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.