tree bb410b0c3e788ce573746eb51d715b3dff691ca5
parent 9e236b1c6d8ac7883579975a074570114b3d7604
author Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> 1601296443 -0400
committer Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> 1603310509 -0400

rcu/tree: nocb: Avoid raising softirq when there are ready to execute CBs

During testing, I see it is possible that rcu_pending() returns 1 when
offloaded callbacks are ready to execute thus raising the RCU softirq.

However, softirq does not execute offloaded callbacks. They are executed in a
kthread which is awakened independent of the softirq.

This commit therefore avoids raising the softirq in the first place. That's
probably a good thing considering that the purpose of callback offloading is to
reduce softirq activity.

Passed 30 minute tests of TREE01 through TREE09 each.

On TREE08, I notice that there is atmost 150us from when the softirq was
NOT raised when ready cbs were present, to when the ready callbacks were
invoked by the rcuop thread. This also further confirms that there is no
need to raise the softirq for ready cbs in the first place.

Cc: neeraju@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
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v1->v2: Also cleaned up another test of the nocb configuration macro.