On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:14:51AM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Paul E. McKenney
> <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 01:09:52AM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> >> This commit tries to spawn nocb kthreads only when the CPU is marked as a
> >> nocb
> >> cpu. This is a minor optimization.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.pr...@gmail.com>
> >
> > This only happens once at boot time, so I am happier with the single check
> > at the bottom. So sorry, but no.
>
> Actually this happens whenever a CPU is coming online, but yes, it is
> a minor optimization for hotplug.
Fair point, but still.
Thanx, Paul
> >> ---
> >> kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 3 ++-
> >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> >> index 541c776..8abff0a 100644
> >> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> >> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> >> @@ -1490,7 +1490,8 @@ static void rcu_prepare_kthreads(int cpu)
> >> return;
> >>
> >> rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(rcu_state_p, rnp);
> >> - rcu_spawn_all_nocb_kthreads(cpu);
> >> + if (rcu_is_nocb_cpu(cpu))
> >> + rcu_spawn_all_nocb_kthreads(cpu);
> >> }
> >>
> >> #else /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */
> >> --
> >> 2.0.0.rc2
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Pranith
>
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