4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Wanpeng Li <[email protected]> commit 444969223c81c7d0a95136b7b4cfdcfbc96ac5bd upstream. The following commit: 9642d18eee2c ("nohz: Affine unpinned timers to housekeepers")' intended to affine unpinned timers to housekeepers: unpinned timers(full dynaticks, idle) => nearest busy housekeepers(otherwise, fallback to any housekeepers) unpinned timers(full dynaticks, busy) => nearest busy housekeepers(otherwise, fallback to any housekeepers) unpinned timers(houserkeepers, idle) => nearest busy housekeepers(otherwise, fallback to itself) However, the !idle_cpu(i) && is_housekeeping_cpu(cpu) check modified the intention to: unpinned timers(full dynaticks, idle) => any housekeepers(no mattter cpu topology) unpinned timers(full dynaticks, busy) => any housekeepers(no mattter cpu topology) unpinned timers(housekeepers, idle) => any busy cpus(otherwise, fallback to any housekeepers) This patch fixes it by checking if there are busy housekeepers nearby, otherwise falls to any housekeepers/itself. After the patch: unpinned timers(full dynaticks, idle) => nearest busy housekeepers(otherwise, fallback to any housekeepers) unpinned timers(full dynaticks, busy) => nearest busy housekeepers(otherwise, fallback to any housekeepers) unpinned timers(housekeepers, idle) => nearest busy housekeepers(otherwise, fallback to itself) Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> [ Fixed the changelog. ] Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Fixes: 'commit 9642d18eee2c ("nohz: Affine unpinned timers to housekeepers")' Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/sched/core.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -627,7 +627,10 @@ int get_nohz_timer_target(void) rcu_read_lock(); for_each_domain(cpu, sd) { for_each_cpu(i, sched_domain_span(sd)) { - if (!idle_cpu(i) && is_housekeeping_cpu(cpu)) { + if (cpu == i) + continue; + + if (!idle_cpu(i) && is_housekeeping_cpu(i)) { cpu = i; goto unlock; }
