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From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linaro-sched-sig@lists.linaro.org>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>,
	Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Zen Lin <zen@openhuawei.org>, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/32] nohz: Try not to give the timekeeping duty to an adaptive tickless cpu
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:51:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F73336C.3020603@tilera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332923983.2528.12.camel@twins>

On 3/28/2012 4:39 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> It would seem that the nohz patches would be much simpler if it would not
>> > require cpusets to administer. The only thing that would be needed is to
>> > have one cpu that is not subject to nohz. The logical choice is a
>> > timekeeper cpu (which is usually cpu 0). Having that configurable would be
>> > an extra bonus.
> Like Frederic has been telling, the nohz stuff adds syscall overhead, it
> needs to timestamp on kernel entry/exit etc.. Making it unconditional
> will add this overhead to everybody and this might not be acceptable.

And more generally, some kind of configuration step is important so the
kernel knows what userspace wants to have happen there.  On a nohz cpu the
kernel will try to optimize for running a single task with no OS overhead. 
On a default cpu the kernel will be trying to use the cpu as part of a pool
for optimizing the overall system experience, including work stealing,
background threads, etc.  This could be a per-process thing, or it could be
a per-core thing, but either way, the kernel can't really guess effectively.

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-28 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-21 13:58 [RFC][PATCH 00/32] Nohz cpusets v2 (adaptive tickless kernel) Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-04 15:33   ` warning in tick_nohz_irq_exit Stephen Hemminger
2012-04-04 20:45     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 01/32] nohz: Separate idle sleeping time accounting from nohz logic Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 02/32] nohz: Make nohz API agnostic against idle ticks cputime accounting Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 03/32] nohz: Rename ts->idle_tick to ts->last_tick Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 04/32] nohz: Move nohz load balancer selection into idle logic Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 05/32] nohz: Move ts->idle_calls incrementation into strict " Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 06/32] nohz: Move next idle expiry time record into idle logic area Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 07/32] cpuset: Set up interface for nohz flag Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 14:50   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-22  4:03     ` Mike Galbraith
2012-03-22 16:26       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-22 19:20         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-03-27 11:22       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-27 11:53         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-03-27 11:56           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-27 12:31             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-03-27 11:19     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 08/32] nohz: Try not to give the timekeeping duty to an adaptive tickless cpu Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 14:52   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-27 10:50     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-27 16:08       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-27 16:47         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-28  1:12           ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-28  8:39             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-28 13:11               ` Dimitri Sivanich
2012-03-28 15:51               ` Chris Metcalf [this message]
2012-03-30  1:34         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 09/32] x86: New cpuset nohz irq vector Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 10/32] nohz: Adaptive tick stop and restart on nohz cpuset Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 11/32] nohz/cpuset: Don't turn off the tick if rcu needs it Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 14:54   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-22  7:38     ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-22 16:18       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-27 15:21         ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-28 12:39           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-28 12:57             ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-28 13:38               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-22 17:18       ` Chris Metcalf
2012-03-27 15:31         ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-27 15:43           ` Chris Metcalf
2012-03-28  8:36             ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-27 12:13     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-27 16:13       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-27 16:24         ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-28  0:42           ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-28  1:06             ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-28  1:19               ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-28  1:35                 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-28  3:17                   ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-28  7:55                     ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-28 12:21                       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-28 12:41                         ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-28 14:02                       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-28 11:53         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 12/32] nohz/cpuset: Wake up adaptive nohz CPU when a timer gets enqueued Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 13/32] nohz/cpuset: Don't stop the tick if posix cpu timers are running Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 14/32] nohz/cpuset: Restart tick when nohz flag is cleared on cpuset Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 15/32] nohz/cpuset: Restart the tick if printk needs it Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 16/32] rcu: Restart the tick on non-responding adaptive nohz CPUs Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 17/32] rcu: Restart tick if we enqueue a callback in a nohz/cpuset CPU Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 18/32] nohz: Generalize tickless cpu time accounting Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 19/32] nohz/cpuset: Account user and system times in adaptive nohz mode Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 20/32] nohz/cpuset: New API to flush cputimes on nohz cpusets Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 21/32] nohz/cpuset: Flush cputime on threads in nohz cpusets when waiting leader Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-27 14:10   ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-27 14:23     ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-28 11:20       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 22/32] nohz/cpuset: Flush cputimes on procfs stat file read Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 23/32] nohz/cpuset: Flush cputimes for getrusage() and times() syscalls Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 24/32] x86: Syscall hooks for nohz cpusets Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 25/32] x86: Exception " Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 26/32] x86: Add adaptive tickless hooks on do_notify_resume() Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 27/32] nohz: Don't restart the tick before scheduling to idle Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 28/32] rcu: New rcu_user_enter() and rcu_user_exit() APIs Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 29/32] rcu: New rcu_user_enter_irq() and rcu_user_exit_irq() APIs Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 30/32] rcu: Switch to extended quiescent state in userspace from nohz cpuset Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 31/32] nohz: Exit RCU idle mode when we schedule before resuming userspace Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-21 13:58 ` [PATCH 32/32] nohz/cpuset: Disable under some configs Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-27 15:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 00/32] Nohz cpusets v2 (adaptive tickless kernel) Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-27 15:04   ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-27 15:05     ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-27 16:22       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-28  6:47         ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-27 15:10   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-27 15:18     ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-05-22 21:31     ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-05-22 21:50       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-22 22:22         ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-03-28 11:43   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-30  0:33 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-03-30  0:45   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-30  2:07     ` Geoff Levand
2012-03-30 14:10       ` Kevin Hilman

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