From 3fc1f1e27a5b807791d72e5d992aa33b668a6626 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 18:49:20 +0200 Subject: stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop Reimplement stop_machine using cpu_stop. As cpu stoppers are guaranteed to be available for all online cpus, stop_machine_create/destroy() are no longer necessary and removed. With resource management and synchronization handled by cpu_stop, the new implementation is much simpler. Asking the cpu_stop to execute the stop_cpu() state machine on all online cpus with cpu hotplug disabled is enough. stop_machine itself doesn't need to manage any global resources anymore, so all per-instance information is rolled into struct stop_machine_data and the mutex and all static data variables are removed. The previous implementation created and destroyed RT workqueues as necessary which made stop_machine() calls highly expensive on very large machines. According to Dimitri Sivanich, preventing the dynamic creation/destruction makes booting faster more than twice on very large machines. cpu_stop resources are preallocated for all online cpus and should have the same effect. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Rusty Russell Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Dimitri Sivanich --- kernel/cpu.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/cpu.c') diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c index 914aedcde84..54577757477 100644 --- a/kernel/cpu.c +++ b/kernel/cpu.c @@ -266,9 +266,6 @@ int __ref cpu_down(unsigned int cpu) { int err; - err = stop_machine_create(); - if (err) - return err; cpu_maps_update_begin(); if (cpu_hotplug_disabled) { @@ -280,7 +277,6 @@ int __ref cpu_down(unsigned int cpu) out: cpu_maps_update_done(); - stop_machine_destroy(); return err; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_down); @@ -361,9 +357,6 @@ int disable_nonboot_cpus(void) { int cpu, first_cpu, error; - error = stop_machine_create(); - if (error) - return error; cpu_maps_update_begin(); first_cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask); /* @@ -394,7 +387,6 @@ int disable_nonboot_cpus(void) printk(KERN_ERR "Non-boot CPUs are not disabled\n"); } cpu_maps_update_done(); - stop_machine_destroy(); return error; } -- cgit v1.2.3