Loading Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt +16 −7 Original line number Original line Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -218,13 +218,22 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! include: include: a. Keeping a count of the number of data-structure elements a. Keeping a count of the number of data-structure elements used by the RCU-protected data structure, including those used by the RCU-protected data structure, including waiting for a grace period to elapse. Enforce a limit those waiting for a grace period to elapse. Enforce a on this number, stalling updates as needed to allow limit on this number, stalling updates as needed to allow previously deferred frees to complete. previously deferred frees to complete. Alternatively, limit only the number awaiting deferred free rather than Alternatively, limit only the number awaiting deferred the total number of elements. free rather than the total number of elements. One way to stall the updates is to acquire the update-side mutex. (Don't try this with a spinlock -- other CPUs spinning on the lock could prevent the grace period from ever ending.) Another way to stall the updates is for the updates to use a wrapper function around the memory allocator, so that this wrapper function simulates OOM when there is too much memory awaiting an RCU grace period. There are of course many other variations on this theme. b. Limiting update rate. For example, if updates occur only b. Limiting update rate. For example, if updates occur only once per hour, then no explicit rate limiting is required, once per hour, then no explicit rate limiting is required, Loading Loading
Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt +16 −7 Original line number Original line Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -218,13 +218,22 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! include: include: a. Keeping a count of the number of data-structure elements a. Keeping a count of the number of data-structure elements used by the RCU-protected data structure, including those used by the RCU-protected data structure, including waiting for a grace period to elapse. Enforce a limit those waiting for a grace period to elapse. Enforce a on this number, stalling updates as needed to allow limit on this number, stalling updates as needed to allow previously deferred frees to complete. previously deferred frees to complete. Alternatively, limit only the number awaiting deferred free rather than Alternatively, limit only the number awaiting deferred the total number of elements. free rather than the total number of elements. One way to stall the updates is to acquire the update-side mutex. (Don't try this with a spinlock -- other CPUs spinning on the lock could prevent the grace period from ever ending.) Another way to stall the updates is for the updates to use a wrapper function around the memory allocator, so that this wrapper function simulates OOM when there is too much memory awaiting an RCU grace period. There are of course many other variations on this theme. b. Limiting update rate. For example, if updates occur only b. Limiting update rate. For example, if updates occur only once per hour, then no explicit rate limiting is required, once per hour, then no explicit rate limiting is required, Loading