From cbb746158fa3804a131ed6a44d1f5073e1685c5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Piggin Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 17:19:20 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] sched/nohz: Run NOHZ idle load balancer on HK_FLAG_MISC CPUs [ Upstream commit 9b019acb72e4b5741d88e8936d6f200ed44b66b2 ] The NOHZ idle balancer runs on the lowest idle CPU. This can interfere with isolated CPUs, so confine it to HK_FLAG_MISC housekeeping CPUs. HK_FLAG_SCHED is not used for this because it is not set anywhere at the moment. This could be folded into HK_FLAG_SCHED once that option is fixed. The problem was observed with increased jitter on an application running on CPU0, caused by NOHZ idle load balancing being run on CPU1 (an SMT sibling). Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190412042613.28930-1-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index f6c9a8a168c9..4e74bd159b4c 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -9166,22 +9166,26 @@ static inline int on_null_domain(struct rq *rq) * - When one of the busy CPUs notice that there may be an idle rebalancing * needed, they will kick the idle load balancer, which then does idle * load balancing for all the idle CPUs. + * - HK_FLAG_MISC CPUs are used for this task, because HK_FLAG_SCHED not set + * anywhere yet. */ static inline int find_new_ilb(void) { - int ilb = cpumask_first(nohz.idle_cpus_mask); + int ilb; - if (ilb < nr_cpu_ids && idle_cpu(ilb)) - return ilb; + for_each_cpu_and(ilb, nohz.idle_cpus_mask, + housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_MISC)) { + if (idle_cpu(ilb)) + return ilb; + } return nr_cpu_ids; } /* - * Kick a CPU to do the nohz balancing, if it is time for it. We pick the - * nohz_load_balancer CPU (if there is one) otherwise fallback to any idle - * CPU (if there is one). + * Kick a CPU to do the nohz balancing, if it is time for it. We pick any + * idle CPU in the HK_FLAG_MISC housekeeping set (if there is one). */ static void kick_ilb(unsigned int flags) { -- GitLab