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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/srcutree.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c index 48047260697e..1ff94b76d91f 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c @@ -502,6 +502,8 @@ static bool srcu_readers_active_idx_check(struct srcu_struct *ssp, int idx) */ if (!did_gp) smp_mb(); /* A */ + else if (srcu_gp_is_expedited(ssp)) + synchronize_rcu_expedited(); /* X */ else synchronize_rcu(); /* X */ @@ -1166,6 +1168,16 @@ static void srcu_flip(struct srcu_struct *ssp) * counter update. Note that both this memory barrier and the * one in srcu_readers_active_idx_check() provide the guarantee * for __srcu_read_lock(). + * + * Note that this is a performance optimization, in which we spend + * an otherwise unnecessary smp_mb() in order to reduce the number + * of full per-CPU-variable scans in srcu_readers_lock_idx() and + * srcu_readers_unlock_idx(). But this performance optimization + * is not so optimal for SRCU-fast, where we would be spending + * not smp_mb(), but rather synchronize_rcu(). At the same time, + * the overhead of the smp_mb() is in the noise, so there is no + * point in omitting it in the SRCU-fast case. So the same code + * is executed either way. */ smp_mb(); /* D */ /* Pairs with C. */ } |