Rather than waking up all nohz_full CPUs on the system, only wakeup the target CPUs of member threads of the signal.
Reduces interruptions to nohz_full CPUs. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -444,9 +444,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_dep_clear_ta * Set a per-taskgroup tick dependency. Posix CPU timers need this in order to elapse * per process timers. */ -void tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(struct signal_struct *sig, enum tick_dep_bits bit) +void tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, + enum tick_dep_bits bit) { - tick_nohz_dep_set_all(&sig->tick_dep_mask, bit); + int prev; + struct signal_struct *sig = tsk->signal; + + prev = atomic_fetch_or(BIT(bit), &sig->tick_dep_mask); + if (!prev) { + struct task_struct *t; + + lockdep_assert_held(&tsk->sighand->siglock); + __for_each_thread(sig, t) + tick_nohz_kick_task(t); + } } void tick_nohz_dep_clear_signal(struct signal_struct *sig, enum tick_dep_bits bit) Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/tick.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/tick.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/tick.h @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ extern void tick_nohz_dep_set_task(struc enum tick_dep_bits bit); extern void tick_nohz_dep_clear_task(struct task_struct *tsk, enum tick_dep_bits bit); -extern void tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(struct signal_struct *signal, +extern void tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, enum tick_dep_bits bit); extern void tick_nohz_dep_clear_signal(struct signal_struct *signal, enum tick_dep_bits bit); @@ -252,11 +252,11 @@ static inline void tick_dep_clear_task(s if (tick_nohz_full_enabled()) tick_nohz_dep_clear_task(tsk, bit); } -static inline void tick_dep_set_signal(struct signal_struct *signal, +static inline void tick_dep_set_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, enum tick_dep_bits bit) { if (tick_nohz_full_enabled()) - tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(signal, bit); + tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(tsk, bit); } static inline void tick_dep_clear_signal(struct signal_struct *signal, enum tick_dep_bits bit) @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static inline void tick_dep_set_task(str enum tick_dep_bits bit) { } static inline void tick_dep_clear_task(struct task_struct *tsk, enum tick_dep_bits bit) { } -static inline void tick_dep_set_signal(struct signal_struct *signal, +static inline void tick_dep_set_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, enum tick_dep_bits bit) { } static inline void tick_dep_clear_signal(struct signal_struct *signal, enum tick_dep_bits bit) { } Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ static void arm_timer(struct k_itimer *t if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(timer->it_clock)) tick_dep_set_task(p, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER); else - tick_dep_set_signal(p->signal, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER); + tick_dep_set_signal(p, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER); } /* @@ -1358,7 +1358,7 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_s if (*newval < *nextevt) *nextevt = *newval; - tick_dep_set_signal(tsk->signal, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER); + tick_dep_set_signal(tsk, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER); } static int do_cpu_nanosleep(const clockid_t which_clock, int flags,