nohz: Affine unpinned timers to housekeepers

The problem addressed in this patch is about affining unpinned
timers. Adaptive or Full Dynticks CPUs are currently disturbed
by unnecessary jitter due to firing of such timers on them.

This patch will affine timers to online CPUs which are not full
dynticks in NOHZ_FULL configured systems. It should not
introduce overhead in nohz full off case due to static keys.

Signed-off-by: Vatika Harlalka <vatikaharlalka@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441119060-2230-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
index 48d901f83f92e4cf78bc932d94142b4594d65d9d..e312219ff8230bb8a4b8fad60ed4fc0e40a6afd3 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -147,11 +147,20 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to(struct cpumask *mask)
                cpumask_or(mask, mask, tick_nohz_full_mask);
 }
 
+static inline int housekeeping_any_cpu(void)
+{
+       return cpumask_any_and(housekeeping_mask, cpu_online_mask);
+}
+
 extern void tick_nohz_full_kick(void);
 extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu);
 extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void);
 extern void __tick_nohz_task_switch(void);
 #else
+static inline int housekeeping_any_cpu(void)
+{
+       return smp_processor_id();
+}
 static inline bool tick_nohz_full_enabled(void) { return false; }
 static inline bool tick_nohz_full_cpu(int cpu) { return false; }
 static inline void tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to(struct cpumask *mask) { }

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 8b864ecee0e187c58a7903058ae1c0fa57b4d0c3..0902e4d72671c942dc205506d84474aebc05e7e7 100644 (file)
--- 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)) {
                                cpu = i;
                                goto unlock;
                        }
                }
        }
+
+       if (!is_housekeeping_cpu(cpu))
+               cpu = housekeeping_any_cpu();
 unlock:
        rcu_read_unlock();
        return cpu;