On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 07:39:37PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 07:12:43PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 04:49:55PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > Instead of doing a per signal dependency, I'm going to use a per task
> > > one.
> >
> > Urgh, does this mean you'll keep the horrid tick_nohz_task_switch()
> > thing?
>
> I thought I would drop it, but now that I think about it more, I think I
> need to keep it because if we enqueue a posix timer to a sleeping task
> and that task later wakes up, we must restart the tick, and that is only
> possible with a check on context switch :-(
>
> This current patchset removed the need for that with a global dependency
> for posix timers: as long as there is one enqueued we keep the tick. But
> Chris and Luiz fear that Tilera users have posix timers on housekeepers.
> They also suggested we offline the posix timers. I fear it's going to be
> a high overhead as it means polling on the target task context of execution.
> Unless we move the task itself to housekeepers...
At least do something like the below, that irq save/restore is expensive
and can be trivially avoided.
Also, tick_nohz_full_kick() checks that tick_nohz_full_cpu() thing
again.
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 9 +--------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 4d34035bb3ee..57d1af7c0660 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2471,6 +2471,7 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(struct task_struct
*prev)
vtime_task_switch(prev);
finish_arch_switch(prev);
perf_event_task_sched_in(prev, current);
+ tick_nohz_task_switch();
finish_lock_switch(rq, prev);
finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
@@ -2489,7 +2490,6 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(struct task_struct
*prev)
put_task_struct(prev);
}
- tick_nohz_task_switch();
return rq;
}
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 3319e16f31e5..9f2225ef230c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -260,18 +260,11 @@ void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void)
*/
void __tick_nohz_task_switch(void)
{
- unsigned long flags;
-
- local_irq_save(flags);
-
if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
- goto out;
+ return;
if (tick_nohz_tick_stopped() && !can_stop_full_tick())
tick_nohz_full_kick();
-
-out:
- local_irq_restore(flags);
}
/* Parse the boot-time nohz CPU list from the kernel parameters. */
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