rcu: Limit lazy-callback duration
authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:13:24 +0000 (14:13 -0800)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:03:36 +0000 (09:03 -0800)
Currently, a given CPU is permitted to remain in dyntick-idle mode
indefinitely if it has only lazy RCU callbacks queued.  This is vulnerable
to corner cases in NUMA systems, so limit the time to six seconds by
default.  (Currently controlled by a cpp macro.)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h

Simple merge