From e260be673a15b6125068270e0216a3bfbfc12f87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:08:24 +0100 Subject: Preempt-RCU: implementation This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details of this implementation can be found in this paper - http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf and the article- http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/ This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of RCU don't disable preemption. As a consequence of keeping track of RCU readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper). This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations and can be switched to at compiler. Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ] Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/rcuclassic.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/rcuclassic.h') diff --git a/include/linux/rcuclassic.h b/include/linux/rcuclassic.h index 2b8b045a51d..4d6624260b4 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcuclassic.h +++ b/include/linux/rcuclassic.h @@ -157,5 +157,8 @@ extern void __rcu_init(void); extern void rcu_check_callbacks(int cpu, int user); extern void rcu_restart_cpu(int cpu); +extern long rcu_batches_completed(void); +extern long rcu_batches_completed_bh(void); + #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ #endif /* __LINUX_RCUCLASSIC_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3