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nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch

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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: 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>
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Frederic Weisbecker
2013-04-20 17:11:50 +02:00
parent 5811d9963e
commit 99e5ada940
3 changed files with 24 additions and 0 deletions
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include/linux/tick.h
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@@ -163,12 +163,14 @@ extern int tick_nohz_full_cpu(int cpu);
extern void tick_nohz_full_check(void); extern void tick_nohz_full_check(void);
extern void tick_nohz_full_kick(void); extern void tick_nohz_full_kick(void);
extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void); extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void);
extern void tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk);
#else #else
static inline void tick_nohz_init(void) { } static inline void tick_nohz_init(void) { }
static inline int tick_nohz_full_cpu(int cpu) { return 0; } static inline int tick_nohz_full_cpu(int cpu) { return 0; }
static inline void tick_nohz_full_check(void) { } static inline void tick_nohz_full_check(void) { }
static inline void tick_nohz_full_kick(void) { } static inline void tick_nohz_full_kick(void) { }
static inline void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void) { } static inline void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void) { }
static inline void tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
#endif #endif

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kernel/sched/core.c
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@@ -1896,6 +1896,8 @@ static void finish_task_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
kprobe_flush_task(prev); kprobe_flush_task(prev);
put_task_struct(prev); put_task_struct(prev);
} }
tick_nohz_task_switch(current);
} }
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP #ifdef CONFIG_SMP

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kernel/time/tick-sched.c
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@@ -232,6 +232,26 @@ void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void)
preempt_enable(); preempt_enable();
} }
/*
* Re-evaluate the need for the tick as we switch the current task.
* It might need the tick due to per task/process properties:
* perf events, posix cpu timers, ...
*/
void tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
unsigned long flags;
if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
return;
local_irq_save(flags);
if (tick_nohz_tick_stopped() && !can_stop_full_tick())
tick_nohz_full_kick();
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
int tick_nohz_full_cpu(int cpu) int tick_nohz_full_cpu(int cpu)
{ {
if (!have_nohz_full_mask) if (!have_nohz_full_mask)