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SubjectRe: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/11] rcu: Expedite grace periods during suspend/resume
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 06:37:46PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
>
> CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ can increase grace-period durations by up to
> a factor of four, which can result in long suspend and resume times.
> Thus, this commit temporarily switches to expedited grace periods when
> suspending the box and return to normal settings when resuming.
>
> [ paulmck: This also papers over an audio/irq bug, but hopefully that will
> be fixed soon. ]
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This patch still seems like a hack, and there *ought* to be a better
general solution to avoid excessive grace-period latency. Nonetheless,
in the absence of such a solution,
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>


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