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Paul E. McKenney authored
A given rcu_data structure's ->nocb_lock can be acquired very frequently by the corresponding CPU and occasionally by the corresponding no-CBs grace-period and callbacks kthreads. In particular, these two kthreads will have frequent gaps between ->nocb_lock acquisitions that are roughly a grace period in duration. This means that any excessive ->nocb_lock contention will be due to the CPU's acquisitions, and this in turn enables a very naive contention-avoidance strategy to be quite effective. This commit therefore modifies rcu_nocb_lock() to first attempt a raw_spin_trylock(), and to atomically increment a separate ->nocb_lock_contended across a raw_spin_lock(). This new ->nocb_lock_contended field is checked in __call_rcu_nocb_wake() when interrupts are enabled, with a spin-wait for contending acquisitions to complete, thus allowing the kthreads a chance to acquire the lock. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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