rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically requested

Enabling NO_HZ_FULL currently has the side effect of enabling callback
offloading on all CPUs.  This results in lots of additional rcuo kthreads,
and can also increase context switching and wakeups, even in cases where
callback offloading is neither needed nor particularly desirable.  This
commit therefore enables callback offloading on a given CPU only if
specifically requested at build time or boot time, or if that CPU has
been specifically designated (again, either at build time or boot time)
as a nohz_full CPU.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-02 10:13:24 -07:00
parent fbce7497ee
commit b58cc46c5f
2 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -2473,6 +2473,9 @@ static void __init rcu_spawn_nocb_kthreads(struct rcu_state *rsp)
if (rcu_nocb_mask == NULL)
return;
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
cpumask_or(rcu_nocb_mask, rcu_nocb_mask, tick_nohz_full_mask);
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL */
if (ls == -1) {
ls = int_sqrt(nr_cpu_ids);
rcu_nocb_leader_stride = ls;