If the RCU_EXPERT Kconfig option is not set (the default), then the RCU_FANOUT_LEAF Kconfig option will not be defined, which will cause the leaf-level rcu_node tree fanout to default to 32 on 32-bit systems and 64 on 64-bit systems. This can result in excessive lock contention. This commit therefore changes the computation of the leaf-level rcu_node tree fanout so that the result will be 16 unless an explicit Kconfig or kernel-boot setting says otherwise.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- kernel/rcu/tree.h | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.h b/kernel/rcu/tree.h index d2f276fc2edc..376c01e539c7 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.h @@ -52,11 +52,7 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF #define RCU_FANOUT_LEAF CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF #else /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF */ -# ifdef CONFIG_64BIT -# define RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 64 -# else -# define RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 32 -# endif +#define RCU_FANOUT_LEAF 16 #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF */ #define RCU_FANOUT_1 (RCU_FANOUT_LEAF) -- 2.5.2