Re: [PATCH 13/32] nohz: Adaptive tick stop and restart on nohz cpuset

Frederic Weisbecker
2011-09-06T13:03:42Z

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 05:25:36PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 17:52 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > When a CPU is included in a nohz cpuset, try to switch
> > it to nohz mode from the timer interrupt if it is the
> > only non-idle task running.
> >
> > Then restart the tick if necessary from the wakeup path
> > if we are enqueuing a second task while the timer is stopped,
> > so that the scheduler tick is rearmed.
>
> Shouldn't you first put the syscall hooks in place before allowing the
> tick to be switched off? It seems this patch is somewhat too early in
> the series.

I don't think it's necessary, that part doesn't depend on userspace hooks.
The whole thing is enabled very late anyway.

> > This assumes we are using TTWU_QUEUE sched feature so I need
> > to handle the off case (or actually not handle it but properly),
> > because we need the adaptive tick restart and what will come
> > along in further patches to be done locally and before the new
> > task ever gets scheduled.
>
> We could certainly remove that feature flag and always use it, it was
> mostly a transition debug switch in case something didn't work or
> performance issues were found due to this.

Ok, good.

> > I also need to look at the ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXW case
> > and the remote wakeups.
>
> Well, ideally we'd simply get rid of that, rmk has some preliminary
> patches in that direction.

Great!

Thanks.