rcu: Expedite grace periods during suspend/resume
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:12:42 +0000 (00:12 +0200)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:37:17 +0000 (17:37 -0700)
commitd1d74d14e98a6be740a6f12456c7d9ad47be9c9c
tree2a0d4f2b81e587ecbbc0362314a36ddec2ff64f2
parentf7f7bac9cb1c50783f15937a11743655a5756a36
rcu: Expedite grace periods during suspend/resume

CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ can increase grace-period durations by up to
a factor of four, which can result in long suspend and resume times.
Thus, this commit temporarily switches to expedited grace periods when
suspending the box and return to normal settings when resuming.  Similar
logic is applied to hibernation.

Because expedited grace periods are of dubious benefit on very large
systems, so this commit restricts their automated use during suspend
and resume to systems of 256 or fewer CPUs.  (Some day a number of
Linux-kernel facilities, including RCU's expedited grace periods,
will be more scalable, but I need to see bug reports first.)

[ paulmck: This also papers over an audio/irq bug, but hopefully that will
  be fixed soon. ]

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
kernel/rcutree.c