rcu: Update jiffies_to_sched_qs and adjust_jiffies_till_sched_qs() comments
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 22:45:13 +0000 (15:45 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 21:38:38 +0000 (14:38 -0700)
This commit better documents the jiffies_to_sched_qs default-value
strategy used by adjust_jiffies_till_sched_qs()

Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
kernel/rcu/tree.c

index 466299c..e117732 100644 (file)
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ static bool rcu_kick_kthreads;
  */
 static ulong jiffies_till_sched_qs = ULONG_MAX;
 module_param(jiffies_till_sched_qs, ulong, 0444);
-static ulong jiffies_to_sched_qs; /* Adjusted version of above if not default */
+static ulong jiffies_to_sched_qs; /* See adjust_jiffies_till_sched_qs(). */
 module_param(jiffies_to_sched_qs, ulong, 0444); /* Display only! */
 
 /*
@@ -424,6 +424,7 @@ static void adjust_jiffies_till_sched_qs(void)
                WRITE_ONCE(jiffies_to_sched_qs, jiffies_till_sched_qs);
                return;
        }
+       /* Otherwise, set to third fqs scan, but bound below on large system. */
        j = READ_ONCE(jiffies_till_first_fqs) +
                      2 * READ_ONCE(jiffies_till_next_fqs);
        if (j < HZ / 10 + nr_cpu_ids / RCU_JIFFIES_FQS_DIV)