[PATCH 4/5] nohz: Move full nohz kick to its own IPI

Frederic Weisbecker
2014-05-11T23:34:18Z

Now that the irq work subsystem can queue remote callbacks, it's
a perfect fit to safely queue IPIs when interrupts are disabled
without worrying about concurrent callers.

Lets use it for the full dynticks kick to notify a CPU that it's
exiting single task mode.

This unbloats a bit the scheduler IPI that the nohz code was abusing
for its cool "callable anywhere/anytime" properties.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
---
include/linux/tick.h | 9 ++++++++-
kernel/sched/core.c | 5 +----
kernel/sched/sched.h | 2 +-
kernel/time/Kconfig | 2 ++
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 10 ++++++----
5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
index b84773c..8a4987f 100644
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -181,7 +181,13 @@ static inline bool tick_nohz_full_cpu(int cpu)

extern void tick_nohz_init(void);
extern void __tick_nohz_full_check(void);
-extern void tick_nohz_full_kick(void);
+extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu);
+
+static inline void tick_nohz_full_kick(void)
+{
+ tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(smp_processor_id());
+}
+
extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void);
extern void __tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk);
#else
@@ -189,6 +195,7 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_init(void) { }
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_check(void) { }
+static inline void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu) { }
static inline void tick_nohz_full_kick(void) { }
static inline void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void) { }
static inline void __tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 268a45e..00ac248 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1500,9 +1500,7 @@ void scheduler_ipi(void)
*/
preempt_fold_need_resched();

- if (llist_empty(&this_rq()->wake_list)
- && !tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id())
- && !got_nohz_idle_kick())
+ if (llist_empty(&this_rq()->wake_list) && !got_nohz_idle_kick())
return;

/*
@@ -1519,7 +1517,6 @@ void scheduler_ipi(void)
* somewhat pessimize the simple resched case.
*/
irq_enter();
- tick_nohz_full_check();
sched_ttwu_pending();

/*
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 456e492..6089e00 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ static inline void inc_nr_running(struct rq *rq)
if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(rq->cpu)) {
/* Order rq->nr_running write against the IPI */
smp_wmb();
- smp_send_reschedule(rq->cpu);
+ tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(rq->cpu);
}
}
#endif
diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
index f448513..27f1f63 100644
--- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ config NO_HZ_FULL
depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
# VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN dependency
depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
+ # tickless irq work
+ depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK_IPI
select NO_HZ_COMMON
select RCU_USER_QS
select RCU_NOCB_CPU
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 6558b7a..3d63944 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -224,13 +224,15 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct irq_work, nohz_full_kick_work) = {
};

/*
- * Kick the current CPU if it's full dynticks in order to force it to
+ * Kick the CPU if it's full dynticks in order to force it to
* re-evaluate its dependency on the tick and restart it if necessary.
*/
-void tick_nohz_full_kick(void)
+void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu)
{
- if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
- irq_work_queue(&__get_cpu_var(nohz_full_kick_work));
+ if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu))
+ return;
+
+ irq_work_queue_on(&per_cpu(nohz_full_kick_work, cpu), cpu);
}

static void nohz_full_kick_ipi(void *info)
--
1.8.3.1