[PATCH 19/27] nohz: Move nohz load balancer selection into idle logic

[Frederic Weisbecker]

[ ** BUGGY PATCH: I need to put more thinking into this ** ]

We want the nohz load balancer to be an idle CPU, thus
move that selection to strict dyntick idle logic.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ added movement of calc_load_exit_idle() ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index ab3aa14..164db94 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -444,9 +444,6 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts,
 		 * the scheduler tick in nohz_restart_sched_tick.
 		 */
 		if (!ts->tick_stopped) {
-			nohz_balance_enter_idle(cpu);
-			calc_load_enter_idle();
-
 			ts->last_tick = hrtimer_get_expires(&ts->sched_timer);
 			ts->tick_stopped = 1;
 		}
@@ -542,8 +539,11 @@ static void __tick_nohz_idle_enter(struct tick_sched *ts)
 			ts->idle_expires = expires;
 		}
 
-		if (!was_stopped && ts->tick_stopped)
+		if (!was_stopped && ts->tick_stopped) {
 			ts->idle_jiffies = ts->last_jiffies;
+			nohz_balance_enter_idle(cpu);
+			calc_load_enter_idle();
+		}
 	}
 }
 
@@ -651,7 +651,6 @@ static void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
 	tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
 	update_cpu_load_nohz();
 
-	calc_load_exit_idle();
 	touch_softlockup_watchdog();
 	/*
 	 * Cancel the scheduled timer and restore the tick
@@ -711,6 +710,8 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void)
 		tick_nohz_stop_idle(cpu, now);
 
 	if (ts->tick_stopped) {
+		nohz_balance_enter_idle(cpu);
+		calc_load_exit_idle();
 		tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(ts, now);
 		tick_nohz_account_idle_ticks(ts);
 	}
-- 
1.7.5.4

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