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rcu: Eliminate unused expedited_normal counter 

Expedited grace periods no longer fall back to normal grace periods
in response to lock contention, given that expedited grace periods
now use the rcu_node tree so as to avoid contention.  This commit
therfore removes the expedited_normal counter.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Paul E. McKenney 2017-01-06 22:04:22 -08:00
parent d78973c32a
commit bb4e2c08bb
3 changed files with 2 additions and 7 deletions
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Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
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@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ o "ktl" is the low-order 16 bits (in hexadecimal) of the count of
The output of "cat rcu/rcu_preempt/rcuexp" looks as follows:
s=21872 wd1=0 wd2=0 wd3=5 n=0 enq=0 sc=21872
s=21872 wd1=0 wd2=0 wd3=5 enq=0 sc=21872
These fields are as follows:
@ -249,9 +249,6 @@ o "wd1", "wd2", and "wd3" are the number of times that an attempt
completed an expedited grace period that satisfies the attempted
request. "Our work is done."
o "n" is number of times that a concurrent CPU-hotplug operation
forced a fallback to a normal grace period.
o "enq" is the number of quiescent states still outstanding.
o "sc" is the number of times that the attempt to start a

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kernel/rcu/tree.h
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@ -521,7 +521,6 @@ struct rcu_state {
struct mutex exp_mutex; /* Serialize expedited GP. */
struct mutex exp_wake_mutex; /* Serialize wakeup. */
unsigned long expedited_sequence; /* Take a ticket. */
atomic_long_t expedited_normal; /* # fallbacks to normal. */
atomic_t expedited_need_qs; /* # CPUs left to check in. */
struct swait_queue_head expedited_wq; /* Wait for check-ins. */
int ncpus_snap; /* # CPUs seen last time. */

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kernel/rcu/tree_trace.c
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@ -194,9 +194,8 @@ static int show_rcuexp(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
s2 += atomic_long_read(&rdp->exp_workdone2);
s3 += atomic_long_read(&rdp->exp_workdone3);
}
seq_printf(m, "s=%lu wd0=%lu wd1=%lu wd2=%lu wd3=%lu n=%lu enq=%d sc=%lu\n",
seq_printf(m, "s=%lu wd0=%lu wd1=%lu wd2=%lu wd3=%lu enq=%d sc=%lu\n",
rsp->expedited_sequence, s0, s1, s2, s3,
atomic_long_read(&rsp->expedited_normal),
atomic_read(&rsp->expedited_need_qs),
rsp->expedited_sequence / 2);
return 0;