From 9f3660c2c1a221c886474587103c69f6034d3e4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:35:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task
 enqueued.

Kick the tick on full dynticks CPUs when they get more
than one task running on their queue. This makes sure that
local fairness is maintained by the tick on the destination.

This is done regardless of these tasks' class. We should
be able to be more clever in the future depending on these. eg:
a CPU that runs a SCHED_FIFO task doesn't need to maintain
fairness against local pending tasks of the fair class.

But keep things simple for now.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
 kernel/sched/sched.h | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 889904dd6d77..eb363aa5d83c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/stop_machine.h>
+#include <linux/tick.h>
 
 #include "cpupri.h"
 
@@ -1106,6 +1107,16 @@ static inline u64 steal_ticks(u64 steal)
 static inline void inc_nr_running(struct rq *rq)
 {
 	rq->nr_running++;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
+	if (rq->nr_running == 2) {
+		if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(rq->cpu)) {
+			/* Order rq->nr_running write against the IPI */
+			smp_wmb();
+			smp_send_reschedule(rq->cpu);
+		}
+       }
+#endif
 }
 
 static inline void dec_nr_running(struct rq *rq)
-- 
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