Public bug reported:
[Impact]
The CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y Kconfig option causes the kernel to avoid
sending scheduling-clock interrupts to CPUs with a single runnable task,
and such CPUs are said to be "adaptive-ticks CPUs". This is important
for applications with aggressive real-time response constraints because
it allows them to improve their worst-case response times by the maximum
duration of a scheduling-clock interrupt. It is also important for
computationally intensive short-iteration workloads: If any CPU is
delayed during a given iteration, all the other CPUs will be forced to
wait idle while the delayed CPU finishes. Thus, the delay is multiplied
by one less than the number of CPUs. In these situations, there is
again strong motivation to avoid sending scheduling-clock interrupts.
[Test Plan]
In order to verify the change will not cause performance issues in
context switch we should compare the results for:
./stress-ng --seq 0 --metrics-brief -t 15
Running on a dedicated machine and with the following services disabled:
smartd.service, iscsid.service, apport.service, cron.service,
anacron.timer, apt-daily.timer, apt-daily-upgrade.timer, fstrim.timer,
logrotate.timer, motd-news.timer, man-db.timer.
[Where problems could occur]
Performance degradation might happen for workloads with intensive
context switching.
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Marcelo Cerri (mhcerri)
Status: In Progress
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Focal)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Groovy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Hirsute)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Marcelo Cerri (mhcerri)
Status: In Progress
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Focal)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Groovy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Hirsute)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Marcelo Cerri (mhcerri)
Status: In Progress
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Title:
Enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL on supported architectures
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