- 02 3月, 2016 3 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Instead of providing asynchronous checks for the nohz subsystem to verify perf event tick dependency, migrate perf to the new mask. Perf needs the tick for two situations: 1) Freq events. We could set the tick dependency when those are installed on a CPU context. But setting a global dependency on top of the global freq events accounting is much easier. If people want that to be optimized, we can still refine that on the per-CPU tick dependency level. This patch dooesn't change the current behaviour anyway. 2) Throttled events: this is a per-cpu dependency. Reviewed-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
It makes nohz tracing more lightweight, standard and easier to parse. Examples: user_loop-2904 [007] d..1 517.701126: tick_stop: success=1 dependency=NONE user_loop-2904 [007] dn.1 518.021181: tick_stop: success=0 dependency=SCHED posix_timers-6142 [007] d..1 1739.027400: tick_stop: success=0 dependency=POSIX_TIMER user_loop-5463 [007] dN.1 1185.931939: tick_stop: success=0 dependency=PERF_EVENTS Suggested-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
The tick dependency is evaluated on every IRQ and context switch. This consists is a batch of checks which determine whether it is safe to stop the tick or not. These checks are often split in many details: posix cpu timers, scheduler, sched clock, perf events.... each of which are made of smaller details: posix cpu timer involves checking process wide timers then thread wide timers. Perf involves checking freq events then more per cpu details. Checking these informations asynchronously every time we update the full dynticks state bring avoidable overhead and a messy layout. Let's introduce instead tick dependency masks: one for system wide dependency (unstable sched clock, freq based perf events), one for CPU wide dependency (sched, throttling perf events), and task/signal level dependencies (posix cpu timers). The subsystems are responsible for setting and clearing their dependency through a set of APIs that will take care of concurrent dependency mask modifications and kick targets to restart the relevant CPU tick whenever needed. This new dependency engine stays beside the old one until all subsystems having a tick dependency are converted to it. Suggested-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Suggested-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 16 1月, 2016 1 次提交
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由 Jean Delvare 提交于
The cpuidle subsystem needs it. Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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- 02 9月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Vatika Harlalka 提交于
The problem addressed in this patch is about affining unpinned timers. Adaptive or Full Dynticks CPUs are currently disturbed by unnecessary jitter due to firing of such timers on them. This patch will affine timers to online CPUs which are not full dynticks in NOHZ_FULL configured systems. It should not introduce overhead in nohz full off case due to static keys. Signed-off-by: NVatika Harlalka <vatikaharlalka@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: NPreeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441119060-2230-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 29 7月, 2015 3 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Leftover from early code. Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Restart the tick when necessary from the irq exit path. It makes nohz full more flexible, simplify the related IPIs and doesn't bring significant overhead on irq exit. In a longer term view, it will allow us to piggyback the nohz kick on the scheduler IPI in the future instead of sending a dedicated IPI that often doubles the scheduler IPI on task wakeup. This will require more changes though including careful review of resched_curr() callers to include nohz full needs. Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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由 Chris Metcalf 提交于
Normally the tilegx networking shim sends irqs to all the cores to distribute the load of processing incoming-packet interrupts, so that you can get to multiple Gb's of traffic inbound. However, in nohz_full mode we don't want to interrupt the nohz_full cores by default, so we limit the set of cores we use to only the online housekeeping cores. To make client code easier to read, we introduce a new nohz_full accessor, housekeeping_cpumask(), which returns a pointer to the housekeeping_mask if nohz_full is enabled, and otherwise returns the cpu_possible_mask. Signed-off-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 08 7月, 2015 2 次提交
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Making tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() independent from CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST broke the build for CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=n because the function is not defined there. Provide a proper stub inline. Fixes: f32dd117 'tick/broadcast: Make idle check independent from mode and config' Reported-by: Nkbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Currently the broadcast busy check, which prevents the idle code from going into deep idle, works only in one shot mode. If NOHZ and HIGHRES are off (config or command line) there is no sanity check at all, so under certain conditions cpus are allowed to go into deep idle, where the local timer stops, and are not woken up again because there is no broadcast timer installed or a hrtimer based broadcast device is not evaluated. Move tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() into the common code and provide proper subfunctions for the various config combinations. The common check in tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() is for the C3STOP misfeature flag of the local clock event device. If its not set, idle can proceed. If set, further checks are necessary. Provide checks for the trivial cases: - If broadcast is disabled in the config, then return busy - If oneshot mode (NOHZ/HIGHES) is disabled in the config, return busy if the broadcast device is hrtimer based. - If oneshot mode is enabled in the config call the original tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() function. That function needs extra checks which will be implemented in seperate patches. [ Split out from a larger combo patch ] Reported-and-tested-by: NSudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1507070929360.3916@nanos
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- 19 5月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
Since idle_should_freeze() is defined to always return 'false' for CONFIG_SUSPEND unset, all of the code depending on it in cpuidle_idle_call() is not necessary in that case. Make that code depend on CONFIG_SUSPEND too to avoid building it when it is not going to be used. Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 07 5月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Chris Metcalf 提交于
This API is useful to modify a cpumask indicating some special nohz-type functionality so that the nohz cores are automatically added to that set. Signed-off-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429024675-18938-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@ezchip.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430928266-24888-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 03 4月, 2015 4 次提交
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism, it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit calls instead of this monstrosity. Split out the cleanup function for a dead cpu and invoke it directly from the cpu down code. Make it conditional on CPU_HOTPLUG as well. Temporary change, will be refined in the future. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [ Rebased, added clockevents_notify() removal ] Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1735025.raBZdQHM3m@vostro.rjw.lanSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism, it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit calls instead of this monstrosity. Split out the tick_handover call and invoke it explicitely from the hotplug code. Temporary solution will be cleaned up in later patches. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [ Rebase ] Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1658173.RkEEILFiQZ@vostro.rjw.lanSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism, it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit calls instead of this monstrosity. Split out the broadcast oneshot control into a separate function and provide inline helpers. Switch clockevents_notify() over. This will go away once all callers are converted. This also gets rid of the nested locking of clockevents_lock and broadcast_lock. The broadcast oneshot control functions do not require clockevents_lock. Only the managing functions (setup/shutdown/suspend/resume of the broadcast device require clockevents_lock. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/13000649.8qZuEDV0OA@vostro.rjw.lanSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism, it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit calls instead of this monstrosity. Split out the broadcast control into a separate function and provide inline helpers. Switch clockevents_notify() over. This will go away once all callers are converted. This also gets rid of the nested locking of clockevents_lock and broadcast_lock. The broadcast control functions do not require clockevents_lock. Only the managing functions (setup/shutdown/suspend/resume of the broadcast device require clockevents_lock. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8086559.ttsuS0n1Xr@vostro.rjw.lanSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 02 4月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Preeti U Murthy 提交于
It was found when doing a hotplug stress test on POWER, that the machine either hit softlockups or rcu_sched stall warnings. The issue was traced to commit: 7cba160a ("powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management") which exposed the cpu_down() race with hrtimer based broadcast mode: 5d1638ac ("tick: Introduce hrtimer based broadcast") The race is the following: Assume CPU1 is the CPU which holds the hrtimer broadcasting duty before it is taken down. CPU0 CPU1 cpu_down() take_cpu_down() disable_interrupts() cpu_die() while (CPU1 != CPU_DEAD) { msleep(100); switch_to_idle(); stop_cpu_timer(); schedule_broadcast(); } tick_cleanup_cpu_dead() take_over_broadcast() So after CPU1 disabled interrupts it cannot handle the broadcast hrtimer anymore, so CPU0 will be stuck forever. Fix this by explicitly taking over broadcast duty before cpu_die(). This is a temporary workaround. What we really want is a callback in the clockevent device which allows us to do that from the dying CPU by pushing the hrtimer onto a different cpu. That might involve an IPI and is definitely more complex than this immediate fix. Changelog was picked up from: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/16/213Suggested-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: NNicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: NPreeti U. Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Fixes: http://linuxppc.10917.n7.nabble.com/offlining-cpus-breakage-td88619.html Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150330092410.24979.59887.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com [ Merged it to the latest timer tree, renamed the callback, tidied up the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 01 4月, 2015 4 次提交
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Use the new tick_suspend/resume_local() and get rid of the homebrewn implementation of these in the ARM bL switcher. The check for the cpumask is completely pointless. There is no harm to suspend a per cpu tick device unconditionally. If that's a real issue then we fix it proper at the core level and not with some completely undocumented hacks in some random core code. Move the tick internals to the core code, now that this nuisance is gone. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [ rjw: Rebase, changelog ] Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1655112.Ws17YsMfN7@vostro.rjw.lanSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Xen calls on every cpu into tick_resume() which is just wrong. tick_resume() is for the syscore global suspend/resume invocation. What XEN really wants is a per cpu local resume function. Provide a tick_resume_local() function and use it in XEN. Also provide a complementary tick_suspend_local() and modify tick_unfreeze() and tick_freeze(), respectively, to use the new local tick resume/suspend functions. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [ Combined two patches, rebased, modified subject/changelog. ] Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1698741.eezk9tnXtG@vostro.rjw.lan [ Merged to latest timers/core. ] Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism, it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit calls instead of this monstrosity. Split out the suspend/resume() calls and invoke them directly from the call sites. No locking required at this point because these calls happen with interrupts disabled and a single cpu online. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [ Rebased on top of 4.0-rc5. ] Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/713674030.jVm1qaHuPf@vostro.rjw.lan [ Rebased on top of latest timers/core. ] Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
No point to expose everything to the world. People just believe such functions can be abused for whatever purposes. Sigh. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [ Rebased on top of 4.0-rc5 ] Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/28017337.VbCUc39Gme@vostro.rjw.lan [ Merged to latest timers/core ] Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 16 2月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
The efficiency of suspend-to-idle depends on being able to keep CPUs in the deepest available idle states for as much time as possible. Ideally, they should only be brought out of idle by system wakeup interrupts. However, timer interrupts occurring periodically prevent that from happening and it is not practical to chase all of the "misbehaving" timers in a whack-a-mole fashion. A much more effective approach is to suspend the local ticks for all CPUs and the entire timekeeping along the lines of what is done during full suspend, which also helps to keep suspend-to-idle and full suspend reasonably similar. The idea is to suspend the local tick on each CPU executing cpuidle_enter_freeze() and to make the last of them suspend the entire timekeeping. That should prevent timer interrupts from triggering until an IO interrupt wakes up one of the CPUs. It needs to be done with interrupts disabled on all of the CPUs, though, because otherwise the suspended clocksource might be accessed by an interrupt handler which might lead to fatal consequences. Unfortunately, the existing ->enter callbacks provided by cpuidle drivers generally cannot be used for implementing that, because some of them re-enable interrupts temporarily and some idle entry methods cause interrupts to be re-enabled automatically on exit. Also some of these callbacks manipulate local clock event devices of the CPUs which really shouldn't be done after suspending their ticks. To overcome that difficulty, introduce a new cpuidle state callback, ->enter_freeze, that will be guaranteed (1) to keep interrupts disabled all the time (and return with interrupts disabled) and (2) not to touch the CPU timer devices. Modify cpuidle_enter_freeze() to look for the deepest available idle state with ->enter_freeze present and to make the CPU execute that callback with suspended tick (and the last of the online CPUs to execute it with suspended timekeeping). Suggested-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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- 09 10月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
Move the nohz_delay bit from the s390_idle data structure to the per-cpu flags. Clear the nohz delay flag in __cpu_disable and remove the cpu hotplug notifier that used to do this. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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- 14 9月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
This way we unbloat a bit main.c and more importantly we initialize nohz full after init_IRQ(). This dependency will be needed in further patches because nohz full needs irq work to raise its own IRQ. Information about the support for this ability on ARM64 is obtained on init_IRQ() which initialize the pointer to __smp_call_function. Since tick_init() is called right after init_IRQ(), this is a good place to call tick_nohz_init() and prepare for that dependency. Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 05 9月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
The local nohz kick is currently used by perf which needs it to be NMI-safe. Recent commit though (7d1311b9) changed its implementation to fire the local kick using the remote kick API. It was convenient to make the code more generic but the remote kick isn't NMI-safe. As a result: WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 18062 at kernel/irq_work.c:72 irq_work_queue_on+0x11e/0x140() CPU: 3 PID: 18062 Comm: trinity-subchil Not tainted 3.16.0+ #34 0000000000000009 00000000903774d1 ffff880244e06c00 ffffffff9a7f1e37 0000000000000000 ffff880244e06c38 ffffffff9a0791dd ffff880244fce180 0000000000000003 ffff880244e06d58 ffff880244e06ef8 0000000000000000 Call Trace: <NMI> [<ffffffff9a7f1e37>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a [<ffffffff9a0791dd>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0 [<ffffffff9a07930a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff9a17ca1e>] irq_work_queue_on+0x11e/0x140 [<ffffffff9a10a2c7>] tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu+0x57/0x90 [<ffffffff9a186cd5>] __perf_event_overflow+0x275/0x350 [<ffffffff9a184f80>] ? perf_event_task_disable+0xa0/0xa0 [<ffffffff9a01a4cf>] ? x86_perf_event_set_period+0xbf/0x150 [<ffffffff9a187934>] perf_event_overflow+0x14/0x20 [<ffffffff9a020386>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x206/0x410 [<ffffffff9a0b54d3>] ? arch_vtime_task_switch+0x63/0x130 [<ffffffff9a01937b>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x2b/0x50 [<ffffffff9a007b72>] nmi_handle+0xd2/0x390 [<ffffffff9a007aa5>] ? nmi_handle+0x5/0x390 [<ffffffff9a0d131b>] ? lock_release+0xab/0x330 [<ffffffff9a008062>] default_do_nmi+0x72/0x1c0 [<ffffffff9a0c925f>] ? cpuacct_account_field+0xcf/0x200 [<ffffffff9a008268>] do_nmi+0xb8/0x100 Lets fix this by restoring the use of local irq work for the nohz local kick. Reported-by: NCatalin Iacob <iacobcatalin@gmail.com> Reported-and-tested-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 10 7月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
Binding the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU resulted in significant performance decreases for some workloads. For more detail, see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/3/395 for benchmark numbers https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/218 for CPU statistics It turns out that it is necessary to bind the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU only when all but CPU 0 is a nohz_full CPU on the one hand or if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y on the other. In other cases, it suffices to bind the grace-period kthreads to the set of non-nohz_full CPUs. This commit therefore creates a tick_nohz_not_full_mask that is the complement of tick_nohz_full_mask, and then binds the grace-period kthread to the set of CPUs indicated by this new mask, which covers the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n case. The CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y case still binds the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU. This commit also includes the tick_nohz_full_enabled() check suggested by Frederic Weisbecker. Reported-by: NJet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Created housekeeping_affine() and housekeeping_mask per fweisbec feedback. ]
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- 16 6月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Remotely kicking a full nohz CPU in order to make it re-evaluate its next tick is currently implemented using the scheduler IPI. However this bloats a scheduler fast path with an off-topic feature. The scheduler tick was abused here for its cool "callable anywhere/anytime" properties. But now that the irq work subsystem can queue remote callbacks, it's a perfect fit to safely queue IPIs when interrupts are disabled without worrying about concurrent callers. So lets implement remote kick on top of irq work. This is going to be used when a new event requires the next tick to be recalculated: more than 1 task competing on the CPU, timer armed, ... Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 16 1月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
This makes the code more symetric against the existing tick functions called on irq exit: tick_irq_exit() and tick_nohz_irq_exit(). These function are also symetric as they mirror each other's action: we start to account idle time on irq exit and we stop this accounting on irq entry. Also the tick is stopped on irq exit and timekeeping catches up with the tickless time elapsed until we reach irq entry. This rename was suggested by Peter Zijlstra a long while ago but it got forgotten in the mass. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387320692-28460-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 03 12月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Use a function with a meaningful name to check the global context tracking state. static_key_false() is a bit confusing for reviewers. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
A few functions use remote per CPU access APIs when they deal with local values. Just do the right conversion to improve performance, code readability and debug checks. While at it, lets extend some of these function names with *_this_cpu() suffix in order to display their purpose more clearly. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 14 8月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Scheduler IPIs and task context switches are serious fast path. Let's try to hide as much as we can the impact of full dynticks APIs' off case that are called on these sites through the use of static keys. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
These APIs are frequenctly accessed and priority is given to optimize the full dynticks off-case in order to let distros enable this feature without suffering from significant performance regressions. Let's inline these APIs and optimize them with static keys. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
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- 29 7月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
Revert commit 69a37bea (cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode), because it has been identified as the source of a significant performance regression in v3.8 and later as explained by Jeremy Eder: We believe we've identified a particular commit to the cpuidle code that seems to be impacting performance of variety of workloads. The simplest way to reproduce is using netperf TCP_RR test, so we're using that, on a pair of Sandy Bridge based servers. We also have data from a large database setup where performance is also measurably/positively impacted, though that test data isn't easily share-able. Included below are test results from 3 test kernels: kernel reverts ----------------------------------------------------------- 1) vanilla upstream (no reverts) 2) perfteam2 reverts e11538d1 3) test reverts 69a37bea e11538d1 In summary, netperf TCP_RR numbers improve by approximately 4% after reverting 69a37bea. When 69a37bea is included, C0 residency never seems to get above 40%. Taking that patch out gets C0 near 100% quite often, and performance increases. The below data are histograms representing the %c0 residency @ 1-second sample rates (using turbostat), while under netperf test. - If you look at the first 4 histograms, you can see %c0 residency almost entirely in the 30,40% bin. - The last pair, which reverts 69a37bea, shows %c0 in the 80,90,100% bins. Below each kernel name are netperf TCP_RR trans/s numbers for the particular kernel that can be disclosed publicly, comparing the 3 test kernels. We ran a 4th test with the vanilla kernel where we've also set /dev/cpu_dma_latency=0 to show overall impact boosting single-threaded TCP_RR performance over 11% above baseline. 3.10-rc2 vanilla RX + c0 lock (/dev/cpu_dma_latency=0): TCP_RR trans/s 54323.78 ----------------------------------------------------------- 3.10-rc2 vanilla RX (no reverts) TCP_RR trans/s 48192.47 Receiver %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 59]: *********************************************************** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 1]: * 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: Sender %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 11]: *********** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 49]: ************************************************* 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: ----------------------------------------------------------- 3.10-rc2 perfteam2 RX (reverts commit e11538d1) TCP_RR trans/s 49698.69 Receiver %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 1]: * 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 59]: *********************************************************** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 0]: 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: Sender %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 2]: ** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 58]: ********************************************************** 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: ----------------------------------------------------------- 3.10-rc2 test RX (reverts 69a37bea and e11538d1) TCP_RR trans/s 47766.95 Receiver %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 1]: * 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 27]: *************************** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 2]: ** 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 2]: ** 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 28]: **************************** Sender: 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 11]: *********** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 0]: 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 1]: * 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 3]: *** 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 7]: ******* 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 38]: ************************************** These results demonstrate gaining back the tendency of the CPU to stay in more responsive, performant C-states (and thus yield measurably better performance), by reverting commit 69a37bea. Requested-by: NJeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com> Tested-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: 3.8+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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- 23 4月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
When a task is scheduled in, it may have some properties of its own that could make the CPU reconsider the need for the tick: posix cpu timers, perf events, ... So notify the full dynticks subsystem when a task gets scheduled in and re-check the tick dependency at this stage. This is done through a self IPI to avoid messing up with any current lock scenario. Signed-off-by: NFrederic 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>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
The scheduler IPI is used by the scheduler to kick full dynticks CPUs asynchronously when more than one task are running or when a new timer list timer is enqueued. This way the destination CPU can decide to restart the tick to handle this new situation. Now let's call that kick in the scheduler IPI. (Reusing the scheduler IPI rather than implementing a new IPI was suggested by Peter Zijlstra a while ago) Signed-off-by: NFrederic 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>
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- 19 4月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
We need full dynticks CPU to also be RCU nocb so that we don't have to keep the tick to handle RCU callbacks. Make sure the range passed to nohz_full= boot parameter is a subset of rcu_nocbs= The CPUs that fail to meet this requirement will be excluded from the nohz_full range. This is checked early in boot time, before any CPU has the opportunity to stop its tick. Suggested-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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: 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>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Provide two new helpers in order to notify the full dynticks CPUs about some internal system changes against which they may reconsider the state of their tick. Some practical examples include: posix cpu timers, perf tick and sched clock tick. For now the notifying handler, implemented through IPIs, is a stub that will be implemented when we get the tick stop/restart infrastructure in. Signed-off-by: NFrederic 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>
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- 16 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
"Extended nohz" was used as a naming base for the full dynticks API and Kconfig symbols. It reflects the fact the system tries to stop the tick in more places than just idle. But that "extended" name is a bit opaque and vague. Rename it to "full" makes it clearer what the system tries to do under this config: try to shutdown the tick anytime it can. The various constraints that prevent that to happen shouldn't be considered as fundamental properties of this feature but rather technical issues that may be solved in the future. Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NFrederic 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: 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>
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- 03 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick, idle dynticks, full dynticks. As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure. It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now. So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ. On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default. But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into a circular dependency: 1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select CONFIG_NO_HZ 2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour. So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks (that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code) and select it from their referring Kconfig. Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ to it for backward compatibility. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.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>
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- 21 3月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
For extreme usecases such as Real Time or HPC, having the ability to shutdown the tick when a single task runs on a CPU is a desired feature: * Reducing the amount of interrupts improves throughput for CPU-bound tasks. The CPU is less distracted from its real job, from an execution time and from the cache point of views. * This also improve latency response as we have less critical sections. Start with introducing a very simple interface to define full dynticks CPU: use a boot time option defined cpumask through the "nohz_extended=" kernel parameter. CPUs that are part of this range will have their tick shutdown whenever possible: provided they run a single task and they don't do kernel activity that require the periodic tick. These details will be later documented in Documentation/* An online CPU must be kept outside this range to handle the timekeeping. Suggested-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.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>
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