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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-12-15 00:07:52 (GMT)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-12-17 20:34:20 (GMT)
commit0209f6490b030f35349a2bb71294f3fd75b0f36d (patch)
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parent121dfc4b3eba9e2f3c42d35205a3510cc65b9931 (diff)
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rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout
Some recent benchmarks have indicated possible lock contention on the leaf-level rcu_node locks. This commit therefore limits the number of CPUs per leaf-level rcu_node structure to 16, in other words, there can be at most 16 rcu_data structures fanning into a given rcu_node structure. Prior to this, the limit was 32 on 32-bit systems and 64 on 64-bit systems. Note that the fanout of non-leaf rcu_node structures is unchanged. The organization of accesses to the rcu_node tree is such that references to non-leaf rcu_node structures are much less frequent than to the leaf structures. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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