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On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 03:46:14AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> From: Vatika Harlalka <vatikaharla...@gmail.com>
>
> The problem addressed in this patch is about affining unpinned timers.
> Adaptive or Full Dynticks CPUs are currently disturbed by unnecessary
> jitter due to firing of such timers on them.
>
> This patch will affine timers to online CPUs which are not full dynticks
> in NOHZ_FULL configured systems. It should not introduce overhead in
> nohz full off case due to static keys.
>
> Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <pre...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off by: Vatika Harlalka <vatikaharla...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@ezchip.com>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
> ---
> include/linux/tick.h | 9 ++++++++-
> kernel/sched/core.c | 7 +++++--
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
> index 3741ba1..51e6493 100644
> --- a/include/linux/tick.h
> +++ b/include/linux/tick.h
> @@ -143,13 +143,20 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to(struct
> cpumask *mask)
> if (tick_nohz_full_enabled())
> cpumask_or(mask, mask, tick_nohz_full_mask);
> }
> -
> +static inline int housekeeping_any_cpu(void)
> +{
> + return cpumask_any_and(housekeeping_mask, cpu_online_mask);
> +}
> extern void __tick_nohz_full_check(void);
> extern void tick_nohz_full_kick(void);
> extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu);
> extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void);
> extern void __tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk);
> #else
> +static inline int housekeeping_any_cpu(void)
> +{
> + return smp_processor_id();
> +}
> static inline bool tick_nohz_full_enabled(void) { return false; }
> static inline bool tick_nohz_full_cpu(int cpu) { return false; }
> static inline void tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to(struct cpumask *mask) { }
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 9917c96..4fd42e4 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -623,18 +623,21 @@ int get_nohz_timer_target(void)
> int i, cpu = smp_processor_id();
> struct sched_domain *sd;
>
> - if (!idle_cpu(cpu))
> + if (!idle_cpu(cpu) && is_housekeeping_cpu(cpu))
> return cpu;
>
> rcu_read_lock();
> for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
> for_each_cpu(i, sched_domain_span(sd)) {
> - if (!idle_cpu(i)) {
> + if (!idle_cpu(i) && is_housekeeping_cpu(cpu)) {
> cpu = i;
> goto unlock;
> }
> }
> }
> +
> + if (!is_housekeeping_cpu(cpu))
> + cpu = housekeeping_any_cpu();
> unlock:
> rcu_read_unlock();
> return cpu;
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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