Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched: Add new API wake_up_if_idle() to wake up the idle cpu

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>]

On 08/18/2014 10:37 AM, Chuansheng Liu wrote:
> Implementing one new API wake_up_if_idle(), which is used to
> wake up the idle CPU.

Is this patchset tested ? Did you check it solves the issue you were 
facing ?

> Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
> ---
>   include/linux/sched.h |    1 +
>   kernel/sched/core.c   |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 857ba40..3f89ac1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -1024,6 +1024,7 @@ struct sched_domain_topology_level {
>   extern struct sched_domain_topology_level *sched_domain_topology;
>
>   extern void set_sched_topology(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl);
> +extern void wake_up_if_idle(int cpu);
>
>   #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
>   # define SD_INIT_NAME(type)		.name = #type
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 1211575..adf104f 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -1620,6 +1620,22 @@ static void ttwu_queue_remote(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
>   	}
>   }
>
> +void wake_up_if_idle(int cpu)
> +{
> +	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	if (set_nr_if_polling(rq->idle)) {
> +		trace_sched_wake_idle_without_ipi(cpu);
> +	} else {
> +		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rq->lock, flags);
> +		if (rq->curr == rq->idle)
> +			smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
> +		/* Else cpu is not in idle, do nothing here */
> +		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
> +	}
> +}
> +
>   bool cpus_share_cache(int this_cpu, int that_cpu)
>   {
>   	return per_cpu(sd_llc_id, this_cpu) == per_cpu(sd_llc_id, that_cpu);
>


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