rcu: Mark task as .need_qs less aggressively

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If any scheduling-clock interrupt interrupts an RCU-preempt read-side
critical section, the interrupted task's ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs
field is set.  This causes the outermost rcu_read_unlock() to incur the
extra overhead of calling into rcu_read_unlock_special().  This commit
reduces that overhead by setting ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs only
if the grace period has been in effect for more than one second.

Why one second?  Because this is comfortably smaller than the minimum
RCU CPU stall-warning timeout of three seconds, but long enough that the
.need_qs marking should happen quite rarely.  And if your RCU read-side
critical section has run on-CPU for a full second, it is not unreasonable
to invest some CPU time in ending the grace period quickly.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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Paul E. McKenney 2018-05-16 14:41:41 -07:00

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