While trying to find a target for a non-pinned timer, use
the following logic:

- Use the closest (from a sched domain POV) busy CPU that
is not full dynticks

- If none, use the closest idle CPU that is not full dynticks.

So this is biased toward isolation over powersaving. This is
a quick hack until we provide a way for the user to tune that
policy. A CPU mask affinity for non pinned timers could be such
a solution.

Original-patch-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abog...@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <ge...@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gi...@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanak...@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
---
 kernel/hrtimer.c    |    3 ++-
 kernel/sched/core.c |   26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
 kernel/timer.c      |    3 ++-
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c
index 6db7a5e..f5da6fb 100644
--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -159,7 +159,8 @@ struct hrtimer_clock_base *lock_hrtimer_base(const struct 
hrtimer *timer,
 static int hrtimer_get_target(int this_cpu, int pinned)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
-       if (!pinned && get_sysctl_timer_migration() && idle_cpu(this_cpu))
+       if (!pinned && get_sysctl_timer_migration() &&
+           (idle_cpu(this_cpu) || tick_nohz_full_cpu(this_cpu)))
                return get_nohz_timer_target();
 #endif
        return this_cpu;
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 7b6156a..e2884c5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -560,22 +560,42 @@ void resched_cpu(int cpu)
  */
 int get_nohz_timer_target(void)
 {
-       int cpu = smp_processor_id();
        int i;
        struct sched_domain *sd;
+       int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+       int target = -1;
 
        rcu_read_lock();
        for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
                for_each_cpu(i, sched_domain_span(sd)) {
+                       /*
+                        * This is biased toward CPU isolation usecase:
+                        * try to migrate the timer to a busy non-full-nohz
+                        * CPU. If there is none, then prefer an idle CPU
+                        * than a full nohz one.
+                        * We shouldn't do policy here (isolation VS 
powersaving)
+                        * so this is a temporary hack. Being able to affine
+                        * non-pinned timers would be a better thing.
+                        */
+                       if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(i))
+                               continue;
+
                        if (!idle_cpu(i)) {
-                               cpu = i;
+                               target = i;
                                goto unlock;
                        }
+
+                       if (target == -1)
+                               target = i;
                }
        }
+       /* Fallback in case of NULL domain */
+       if (target == -1)
+               target = cpu;
 unlock:
        rcu_read_unlock();
-       return cpu;
+
+       return target;
 }
 /*
  * When add_timer_on() enqueues a timer into the timer wheel of an
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 970b57d..51dd02b 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -738,7 +738,8 @@ __mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires,
        cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
-       if (!pinned && get_sysctl_timer_migration() && idle_cpu(cpu))
+       if (!pinned && get_sysctl_timer_migration() &&
+           (idle_cpu(cpu) || tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)))
                cpu = get_nohz_timer_target();
 #endif
        new_base = per_cpu(tvec_bases, cpu);
-- 
1.7.5.4

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