From 64ca5ab913f1594ef316556e65f5eae63ff50cee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:11:56 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] rcu: increment quiescent state counter in ksoftirqd() If a machine is flooded by network frames, a cpu can loop 100% of its time inside ksoftirqd() without calling schedule(). This can delay RCU grace period to insane values. Adding rcu_qsctr_inc() call in ksoftirqd() solves this problem. Paul: "This regression was a result of the recent change from "schedule()" to "cond_resched()", which got rid of that quiescent state in the common case where a reschedule is not needed". Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/softirq.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c index bdbe9de9cd8..9041ea7948f 100644 --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -626,6 +626,7 @@ static int ksoftirqd(void * __bind_cpu) preempt_enable_no_resched(); cond_resched(); preempt_disable(); + rcu_qsctr_inc((long)__bind_cpu); } preempt_enable(); set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); -- 2.41.1