nohz_full: Force RCU's grace-period kthreads onto timekeeping CPU
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:10:40 +0000 (17:10 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sat, 31 Aug 2013 21:44:02 +0000 (14:44 -0700)
commiteb75767be0e514f97bf1b5cec763696cfc7f7e2a
tree08cae2878e46409d6f5cffd0d37499bfa4851abc
parent0edd1b1784cbdad55aca2c1293be018f53c0ab1d
nohz_full: Force RCU's grace-period kthreads onto timekeeping CPU

Because RCU's quiescent-state-forcing mechanism is used to drive the
full-system-idle state machine, and because this mechanism is executed
by RCU's grace-period kthreads, this commit forces these kthreads to
run on the timekeeping CPU (tick_do_timer_cpu).  To do otherwise would
mean that the RCU grace-period kthreads would force the system into
non-idle state every time they drove the state machine, which would
be just a bit on the futile side.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
kernel/rcutree.c
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h