Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Optimize !CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON cpu load updates

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 12:48:21PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 03:07:13AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > index 4c522a7..59a2821 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > @@ -7327,8 +7327,9 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
> >  
> >  		for (j = 0; j < CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX; j++)
> >  			rq->cpu_load[j] = 0;
> > -
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
> >  		rq->last_load_update_tick = jiffies;
> > +#endif
> >  
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> >  		rq->sd = NULL;
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > index 1dd864d..4618e5b 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -4661,8 +4680,10 @@ static inline void cpu_load_update_nohz(struct rq *this_rq,
> >  
> >  static void cpu_load_update_periodic(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned long load)
> >  {
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
> >  	/* See the mess around cpu_load_update_nohz(). */
> >  	this_rq->last_load_update_tick = READ_ONCE(jiffies);
> > +#endif
> >  	cpu_load_update(this_rq, load, 1);
> >  }
> >  
> 
> Here you do the simple #ifdef, while here you make a giant mess instead
> of the relatively straight forward:
> 
> > @@ -4540,17 +4568,8 @@ static void cpu_load_update(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned long this_load,
> >  
> >  		/* scale is effectively 1 << i now, and >> i divides by scale */
> >  
> > -		old_load = this_rq->cpu_load[i];
> #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
> > -		old_load = decay_load_missed(old_load, pending_updates - 1, i);
> > -		if (tickless_load) {
> > -			old_load -= decay_load_missed(tickless_load, pending_updates - 1, i);
> > -			/*
> > -			 * old_load can never be a negative value because a
> > -			 * decayed tickless_load cannot be greater than the
> > -			 * original tickless_load.
> > -			 */
> > -			old_load += tickless_load;
> > -		}
> #endif

Ah sure, if you prefer it that way, I can do that.

Thanks.