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Commit 8f870e6e authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney
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srcu: Block less aggressively for expedited grace periods



Commit 282d8998 ("srcu: Prevent expedited GPs and blocking readers
from consuming CPU") fixed a problem where a long-running expedited SRCU
grace period could block kernel live patching.  It did so by giving up
on expediting once a given SRCU expedited grace period grew too old.

Unfortunately, this added excessive delays to boots of virtual embedded
systems specifying "-bios QEMU_EFI.fd" to qemu.  This commit therefore
makes the transition away from expediting less aggressive, increasing
the per-grace-period phase number of non-sleeping polls of readers from
one to three and increasing the required grace-period age from one jiffy
(actually from zero to one jiffies) to two jiffies (actually from one
to two jiffies).

Fixes: 282d8998 ("srcu: Prevent expedited GPs and blocking readers from consuming CPU")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarZhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
Reported-by: default avatarchenxiang (M)" <chenxiang66@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi  <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNeeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20615615-0013-5adc-584f-2b1d5c03ebfc@linaro.org/
parent a111daf0
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