rcu/nocb: Use rcu_segcblist for no-CBs CPUs

Currently the RCU callbacks for no-CBs CPUs are queued on a series of
ad-hoc linked lists, which means that these callbacks cannot benefit
from "drive-by" grace periods, thus suffering needless delays prior
to invocation.  In addition, the no-CBs grace-period kthreads first
wait for callbacks to appear and later wait for a new grace period,
which means that callbacks appearing during a grace-period wait can
be delayed.  These delays increase memory footprint, and could even
result in an out-of-memory condition.

This commit therefore enqueues RCU callbacks from no-CBs CPUs on the
rcu_segcblist structure that is already used by non-no-CBs CPUs.  It also
restructures the no-CBs grace-period kthread to be checking for incoming
callbacks while waiting for grace periods.  Also, instead of waiting
for a new grace period, it waits for the closest grace period that will
cause some of the callbacks to be safe to invoke.  All of these changes
reduce callback latency and thus the number of outstanding callbacks,
in turn reducing the probability of an out-of-memory condition.

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

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.h b/kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.h
index ed3fcece39a9..db38f0a512c4 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.h
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ bool rcu_segcblist_ready_cbs(struct rcu_segcblist *rsclp);
 bool rcu_segcblist_pend_cbs(struct rcu_segcblist *rsclp);
 struct rcu_head *rcu_segcblist_first_cb(struct rcu_segcblist *rsclp);
 struct rcu_head *rcu_segcblist_first_pend_cb(struct rcu_segcblist *rsclp);
+bool rcu_segcblist_nextgp(struct rcu_segcblist *rsclp, unsigned long *lp);
 void rcu_segcblist_enqueue(struct rcu_segcblist *rsclp,
 			   struct rcu_head *rhp, bool lazy);
 bool rcu_segcblist_entrain(struct rcu_segcblist *rsclp,