On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 22:47 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 07:14:13PM +0000, Jiang, Yunhong wrote:
> > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > > index 8b864ec..0902e4d 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)) {
> >
> > Hi, Frederic, sorry for a naive question. Per my understanding, the
> > tick_nohz_full_mask is added to cpu_isolated_map in
> > sched_init_smp(), and the cpu_isolated_map is excluded from sched_domain in
> > init_sched_domains(), so why check here?
>
> Very good observation! But it's better to keep this check in the domain loop
> in
> case things change in the future such as removing that cpu_isolated_map
> inclusion
> or other suprises.
IMHO, nohz_full -> cpu_isolated_map removal really wants to happen.
NO_HZ_FULL_ALL currently means "Woohoo, next stop NR_CPUS=0".
-Mike
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