Re: [PATCH 6/8] tick/nohz: Only wakeup a single target cpu when kicking a task

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon May 10 2021 - 07:48:23 EST


On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:39:01PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 03:43:28PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > That had me looking at tick_nohz_task_switch(), does we want the below?
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > index 9143163fa678..ff45fc513ba7 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > @@ -4207,6 +4207,7 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
> > vtime_task_switch(prev);
> > perf_event_task_sched_in(prev, current);
> > finish_task(prev);
> > + tick_nohz_task_switch();
> > finish_lock_switch(rq);
> > finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
> > kcov_finish_switch(current);
> > @@ -4252,7 +4253,6 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
> > put_task_struct_rcu_user(prev);
> > }
> >
> > - tick_nohz_task_switch();
> > return rq;
> > }
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> > index 828b091501ca..ea079be9097f 100644
> > --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> > +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> > @@ -447,13 +447,10 @@ void tick_nohz_dep_clear_signal(struct signal_struct *sig, enum tick_dep_bits bi
> > */
> > void __tick_nohz_task_switch(void)
> > {
> > - unsigned long flags;
> > struct tick_sched *ts;
> >
> > - local_irq_save(flags);
> > -
> > if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
> > - goto out;
> > + return;
> >
> > ts = this_cpu_ptr(&tick_cpu_sched);
> >
> > @@ -462,8 +459,6 @@ void __tick_nohz_task_switch(void)
> > atomic_read(&current->signal->tick_dep_mask))
> > tick_nohz_full_kick();
> > }
> > -out:
> > - local_irq_restore(flags);
> > }
> >
> > /* Get the boot-time nohz CPU list from the kernel parameters. */
>
>
> Sure, I'll take your SoB on that too, ok?

OK, but please also test it :-) I didn't even ask a compiler it's
opinion on the thing.