From: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx>
The _cpu_down() function invoked as part of the CPU-hotplug offlining
process currently invokes __stop_machine(), which is slow and inflicts
substantial real-time latencies on the entire system. This patch
substitutes stop_one_cpu() for __stop_machine() in order to improve
both performance and real-time latency.
There were a number of uses of preempt_disable() or local_irq_disable()
that were intended to block CPU-hotplug offlining. These were fixed by
using get/put_online_cpus_atomic(), which is the new synchronization
primitive to prevent CPU offline, while invoking from atomic context.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Refer to the new sync primitives for
readers (in the changelog); s/stop_cpus/stop_one_cpu and fix comment
referring to stop_machine in the code]
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/cpu.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 58dd1df..652fb53 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ static int __ref _cpu_down(unsigned int cpu, int tasks_frozen)
}
smpboot_park_threads(cpu);
- err = __stop_machine(take_cpu_down, &tcd_param, cpumask_of(cpu));
+ err = stop_one_cpu(cpu, take_cpu_down, &tcd_param);
if (err) {
/* CPU didn't die: tell everyone. Can't complain. */
smpboot_unpark_threads(cpu);
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ static int __ref _cpu_down(unsigned int cpu, int tasks_frozen)
/*
* The migration_call() CPU_DYING callback will have removed all
* runnable tasks from the cpu, there's only the idle task left now
- * that the migration thread is done doing the stop_machine thing.
+ * that the migration thread is done doing the stop_one_cpu() thing.
*
* Wait for the stop thread to go away.
*/
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