[PATCH] posix timers: RCU optimization for clock_gettime()
Use RCU to avoid the need to acquire tasklist_lock in the single-threaded
case of clock_gettime(). It still acquires tasklist_lock when for a
(potentially multithreaded) process. This change allows realtime
applications to frequently monitor CPU consumption of individual tasks, as
requested (and now deployed) by some off-list users.
This has been in Ingo Molnar's -rt patchset since late 2005 with no
problems reported, and tests successfully on 2.6.20-rc6, so I believe that
it is long-since ready for mainline adoption.
[paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com: fix exit()/posix_cpu_clock_get() race spotted by Oleg]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 7c3e1e6..657f776 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@
* should be able to see it.
*/
struct task_struct *p;
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+ rcu_read_lock();
p = find_task_by_pid(pid);
if (p) {
if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(which_clock)) {
@@ -312,12 +312,17 @@
error = cpu_clock_sample(which_clock,
p, &rtn);
}
- } else if (p->tgid == pid && p->signal) {
- error = cpu_clock_sample_group(which_clock,
- p, &rtn);
+ } else {
+ read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+ if (p->tgid == pid && p->signal) {
+ error =
+ cpu_clock_sample_group(which_clock,
+ p, &rtn);
+ }
+ read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
}
}
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
if (error)