Re: [patch 2/2] nohz: change signal tick dependency to wakeup CPUs of member tasks

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 03:01:53PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Rather than waking up all nohz_full CPUs on the system, only wakeup 
> the target CPUs of member threads of the signal.
> 
> Reduces interruptions to nohz_full CPUs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> @@ -398,7 +398,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_dep_clear_ta
>   */
>  void tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(struct signal_struct *sig, enum tick_dep_bits bit)
>  {
> -	tick_nohz_dep_set_all(&sig->tick_dep_mask, bit);
> +	int prev;
> +
> +	prev = atomic_fetch_or(BIT(bit), &sig->tick_dep_mask);
> +	if (!prev) {
> +		rcu_read_lock();
> +		for_each_thread(sig, t)
> +			tick_nohz_kick_task(t);
> +		rcu_read_unlock();
> +	}
>  }

AFAICT, and this makes perfect sense, this function is only ever used
while holding sighand->siglock, which makes the RCU read lock
superfluous.

Would it make sense to change the signal_struct argument to task_struct,
such that we can write:

	lockdep_assert_held(&p->sighand->siglock);
	for_each_thread(p->signal, t)
		tick_nohz_kick_task(t);

?