[PATCH 4.4 064/113] sched/nohz: Fix affine unpinned timers mess

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-05T16:53:18Z

From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>

commit 444969223c81c7d0a95136b7b4cfdcfbc96ac5bd upstream.

The following commit:

9642d18eee2c ("nohz: Affine unpinned timers to housekeepers")'

intended to affine unpinned timers to housekeepers:

unpinned timers(full dynaticks, idle) => nearest busy housekeepers(otherwise, fallback to any housekeepers)
unpinned timers(full dynaticks, busy) => nearest busy housekeepers(otherwise, fallback to any housekeepers)
unpinned timers(houserkeepers, idle) => nearest busy housekeepers(otherwise, fallback to itself)

However, the !idle_cpu(i) && is_housekeeping_cpu(cpu) check modified the
intention to:

unpinned timers(full dynaticks, idle) => any housekeepers(no mattter cpu topology)
unpinned timers(full dynaticks, busy) => any housekeepers(no mattter cpu topology)
unpinned timers(housekeepers, idle) => any busy cpus(otherwise, fallback to any housekeepers)

This patch fixes it by checking if there are busy housekeepers nearby,
otherwise falls to any housekeepers/itself. After the patch:

unpinned timers(full dynaticks, idle) => nearest busy housekeepers(otherwise, fallback to any housekeepers)
unpinned timers(full dynaticks, busy) => nearest busy housekeepers(otherwise, fallback to any housekeepers)
unpinned timers(housekeepers, idle) => nearest busy housekeepers(otherwise, fallback to itself)

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
[ Fixed the changelog. ]
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 'commit 9642d18eee2c ("nohz: Affine unpinned timers to housekeepers")'
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462344334-8303-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/sched/core.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -627,7 +627,10 @@ int get_nohz_timer_target(void)
rcu_read_lock();
for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
for_each_cpu(i, sched_domain_span(sd)) {
- if (!idle_cpu(i) && is_housekeeping_cpu(cpu)) {
+ if (cpu == i)
+ continue;
+
+ if (!idle_cpu(i) && is_housekeeping_cpu(i)) {
cpu = i;
goto unlock;
}