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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	"Van De Ven, Arjan" <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/6] sched: use rq->avg_event to resurrect nohz ratelimiting
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:36:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321630619.2197.16.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321629562.7080.17.camel@marge.simson.net>

On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:19 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Entering nohz at high frequency eats cycles, ratelimit it
> just as we do idle_balance(), and for the same reason.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>

Arjan, can we do something smart with the idle governor which already
guestimates the idle duration for us?

> ---
>  include/linux/sched.h    |    2 ++
>  kernel/sched.c           |    7 +++++++
>  kernel/time/tick-sched.c |    2 +-
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-3.2.git/include/linux/sched.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-3.2.git.orig/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ linux-3.2.git/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -1979,8 +1979,10 @@ static inline void idle_task_exit(void)
>  
>  #if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
>  extern void wake_up_idle_cpu(int cpu);
> +extern int sched_needs_cpu(int cpu);
>  #else
>  static inline void wake_up_idle_cpu(int cpu) { }
> +static inline void sched_needs_cpu(int cpu) { }
>  #endif
>  
>  extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency;
> Index: linux-3.2.git/kernel/sched.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-3.2.git.orig/kernel/sched.c
> +++ linux-3.2.git/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -1419,6 +1419,13 @@ static inline bool got_nohz_idle_kick(vo
>  	return idle_cpu(smp_processor_id()) && this_rq()->nohz_balance_kick;
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> +int sched_needs_cpu(int cpu)
> +{
> +	return cpu_rq(cpu)->avg_event < sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  #else /* CONFIG_NO_HZ */
>  
>  static inline bool got_nohz_idle_kick(void)
> Index: linux-3.2.git/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-3.2.git.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> +++ linux-3.2.git/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidl
>  	} while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));
>  
>  	if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu) || printk_needs_cpu(cpu) ||
> -	    arch_needs_cpu(cpu)) {
> +	    arch_needs_cpu(cpu) || sched_needs_cpu(cpu)) {
>  		next_jiffies = last_jiffies + 1;
>  		delta_jiffies = 1;
>  	} else {
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-18 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15  9:46 sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-16  1:14 ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-16  9:24   ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-16 18:37     ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-17  1:59       ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-17 15:38         ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-17 15:56           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-17 16:38             ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-17 17:36               ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-18 15:14                 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:17                   ` [patch 1/6] sched: use rt.nr_cpus_allowed to recover select_task_rq() cycles Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:35                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-18 17:34                       ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:17                       ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:18                         ` [patch 1/7] " Mike Galbraith
2011-12-06  9:50                           ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Use " tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:20                         ` [patch 2/7] sched: save some hrtick_start_fair cycles Mike Galbraith
2011-12-06 20:20                           ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Save " tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:21                         ` [patch 3/7] sched: set skip_clock_update in yield_task_fair() Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 11:53                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-23 12:06                             ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 14:48                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-24  3:50                             ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-24 10:12                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-25  6:39                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-12-06  9:51                           ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Set " tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:22                         ` [patch 4/7] sched: convert rq->avg_idle to rq->avg_event Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 11:55                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-23 12:09                             ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 12:27                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-23 12:57                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 14:21                                   ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:23                         ` [patch 5/7] sched: ratelimit select_idle_sibling()for sync wakeups Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:24                         ` [patch 6/7] sched: use rq->avg_event to resurrect nohz ratelimiting Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 11:57                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-23 12:35                           ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:26                         ` [patch 7/7] sched: only use TTWU_QUEUE when waker/wakee CPUs do not share top level cache Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 12:08                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-18 15:39                     ` [patch 1/6] sched: use rt.nr_cpus_allowed to recover select_task_rq() cycles Hillf Danton
2011-11-18 15:18                   ` [patch 2/6] sched: convert rq->avg_idle to rq->avg_event Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:19                   ` [patch 3/6] sched: use rq->avg_event to resurrect nohz ratelimiting Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:36                     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-11-18 17:42                       ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-19  0:51                         ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2011-11-19  4:15                           ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:20                   ` [patch 4/6] sched: ratelimit select_idle_sibling()for sync wakeups Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:22                   ` [patch 5/6] sched: save some hrtick_start_fair cycles Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:23                   ` [patch 6/6] sched: set skip_clock_update in yield_task_fair() Mike Galbraith
2012-02-20 14:41                   ` sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-20 15:03                     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-20 18:25                       ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-21  0:06                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-21  6:37                           ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-21  8:09                             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-20 18:14                     ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-20 18:15                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-20 19:07                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-21  5:43                         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-21  8:32                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-21  9:21                             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-21 10:37                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-21 14:58                                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 10:49                       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 11:19                         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-23 12:18                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 11:20                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 11:26                           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-23 11:32                             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 16:17                               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-23 11:21                         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-25  6:54                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-25  8:30                             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-27 22:11                               ` Suresh Siddha
2012-02-28  5:05                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-17 19:08             ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-18 15:12               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-18 15:26                 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-12-06  9:49               ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Clean up domain traversal in select_idle_sibling() tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2011-11-18 23:40 ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra

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