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2012-07-22Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer core changes from Ingo Molnar: "Continued cleanups of the core time and NTP code, plus more nohz work preparing for tick-less userspace execution." * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: time: Rework timekeeping functions to take timekeeper ptr as argument time: Move xtime_nsec adjustment underflow handling timekeeping_adjust time: Move arch_gettimeoffset() usage into timekeeping_get_ns() time: Refactor accumulation of nsecs to secs time: Condense timekeeper.xtime into xtime_sec time: Explicitly use u32 instead of int for shift values time: Whitespace cleanups per Ingo%27s requests nohz: Move next idle expiry time record into idle logic area nohz: Move ts->idle_calls incrementation into strict idle logic nohz: Rename ts->idle_tick to ts->last_tick nohz: Make nohz API agnostic against idle ticks cputime accounting nohz: Separate idle sleeping time accounting from nohz logic timers: Improve get_next_timer_interrupt() timers: Add accounting of non deferrable timers timers: Consolidate base->next_timer update timers: Create detach_if_pending() and use it
2012-07-22Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar: "Quoting from Paul, the major features of this series are: 1. Preventing latency spikes of more than 200 microseconds for kernels built with NR_CPUS=4096, which is reportedly becoming the default for some distros. This is a first step, as it does not help with systems that actually -have- 4096 CPUs (work on this case is in progress, but is not yet ready for mainline). This category also includes improving concurrency of rcu_barrier(), placed here due to conflicts. Posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/22/381 Note that patches 18-22 of that series have been defered to 3.7, as they have not yet proven themselves to be mainline-ready (and yes, these are the ones intended to get rid of RCU's latency spikes for systems that actually have 4096 CPUs). 2. Updates to documentation and rcutorture fixes, the latter category including improvements to rcu_barrier() testing. Posted to LKML at http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1206.1/04094.html. 3. Miscellaneous fixes posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/22/500 with the exception of the last commit, which was posted here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1561830 4. RCU_FAST_NO_HZ fixes and improvements. Posted to LKML at: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1206.1/00006.html http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1561833 The first four patches of the first series went into 3.5 to fix a regression. 5. Code-style fixes. These were posted to LKML at http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1205.2/01180.html http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1205.2/01181.html" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (48 commits) rcu: Fix broken strings in RCU's source code. rcu: Fix code-style issues involving "else" rcu: Introduce check for callback list/count mismatch rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ respect nohz= boot parameter rcu: Fix qlen_lazy breakage rcu: Round FAST_NO_HZ lazy timeout to nearest second rcu: The rcu_needs_cpu() function is not a quiescent state rcu: Dump only the current CPU's buffers for idle-entry/exit warnings rcu: Add check for CPUs going offline with callbacks queued rcu: Disable preemption in rcu_blocking_is_gp() rcu: Prevent uninitialized string in RCU CPU stall info rcu: Fix rcu_is_cpu_idle() #ifdef in TINY_RCU rcu: Split RCU core processing out of __call_rcu() rcu: Prevent __call_rcu() from invoking RCU core on offline CPUs rcu: Make __call_rcu() handle invocation from idle rcu: Remove function versions of __kfree_rcu and __is_kfree_rcu_offset rcu: Consolidate tree/tiny __rcu_read_{,un}lock() implementations rcu: Remove return value from rcu_assign_pointer() key: Remove extraneous parentheses from rcu_assign_keypointer() rcu: Remove return value from RCU_INIT_POINTER() ...
2012-07-15Merge branch 'timers/urgent' into timers/coreThomas Gleixner
Reason: Update to upstream changes to avoid further conflicts. Fixup a trivial merge conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-07-05sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- againPeter Zijlstra
Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code: - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a negative bias because we can negate our own sample. - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias because we push the sample to a known active period. So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding copious documentation to the code. Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net> Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang <muming.wq@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins [ minor edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-02rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ respect nohz= boot parameterPaul E. McKenney
If the nohz= boot parameter disables nohz, then RCU_FAST_NO_HZ needs to also disable itself. This commit therefore checks for tick_nohz_enabled being zero, disabling rcu_prepare_for_idle() if so. This commit assumes that tick_nohz_enabled can change at runtime: If this is not the case, then a simpler approach suffices. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-06-11nohz: Move next idle expiry time record into idle logic areaFrederic Weisbecker
The next idle expiry time record and idle sleeps tracking are statistics that only concern idle. Since we want the nohz APIs to become usable further idle context, let's pull up the handling of these statistics to the callers in idle. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> 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@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-06-11nohz: Move ts->idle_calls incrementation into strict idle logicFrederic Weisbecker
Since we want to prepare for making the nohz API to work further the idle case, we need to pull ts->idle_calls incrementation up to the callers in idle. To perform this, we split tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() in two parts: a first one that checks if we can really stop the tick for idle, and another that actually stops it. Then from the callers in idle, we check if we can stop the tick and only then we increment idle_calls and finally relay to the nohz API that won't care about these details anymore. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> 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@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-06-11nohz: Rename ts->idle_tick to ts->last_tickFrederic Weisbecker
Now that idle and nohz logics are going to be independant each others, ts->idle_tick becomes too much a biased name to describe the field that saves the last scheduled tick on top of which we re-calculate the next tick to schedule when the timer is restarted. We want to reuse this even to stop the tick outside idle cases. So let's rename it to some more generic name: ts->last_tick. This changes a bit the timer list stat export so we need to increase its version. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> 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@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-06-11nohz: Make nohz API agnostic against idle ticks cputime accountingFrederic Weisbecker
When the timer tick fires, it accounts the new jiffy as either part of system, user or idle time. This is how we record the cputime statistics. But when the tick is stopped from the idle task, we still need to record the number of jiffies spent tickless until we restart the tick and fall back to traditional tick-based cputime accounting. To do this, we take a snapshot of jiffies when the tick is stopped and compute the difference against the new value of jiffies when the tick is restarted. Then we account this whole difference to the idle cputime. However we are preparing to be able to stop the tick from other places than idle. So this idle time accounting needs to be performed from the callers of nohz APIs, not from the nohz APIs themselves because we now want them to be agnostic against places that stop/restart tick. Therefore, we pull the tickless idle time accounting out of generic nohz helpers up to idle entry/exit callers. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> 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@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-06-11nohz: Separate idle sleeping time accounting from nohz logicFrederic Weisbecker
As we plan to be able to stop the tick outside the idle task, we need to prepare for separating nohz logic from idle. As a start, this pulls the idle sleeping time accounting out of the tick stop/restart API to the callers on idle entry/exit. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> 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@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-06-11Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/urgent Merge RCU fixes from Paul E. McKenney: " This series has four patches, the major point of which is to eliminate some slowdowns (including boot-time slowdowns) resulting from some RCU_FAST_NO_HZ changes. The issue with the changes is that posting timers from the idle loop has no effect if the CPU has entered dyntick-idle mode because the CPU has already computed its wakeup time, and posting a timer does not cause it to be recomputed. The short-term fix is for RCU to precompute the timeout value so that the CPU's calculation is correct. " Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06rcu: Precompute RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timer offsetsPaul E. McKenney
When a CPU is entering dyntick-idle mode, tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() calls rcu_needs_cpu() see if RCU needs that CPU, and, if not, computes the next wakeup time based on the timer wheels. Only later, when actually entering the idle loop, rcu_prepare_for_idle() will be invoked. In some cases, rcu_prepare_for_idle() will post timers to wake the CPU back up. But all for naught: The next wakeup time for the CPU has already been computed, and posting a timer afterwards does not force that wakeup time to be recomputed. This means that rcu_prepare_for_idle()'s have no effect. This is not a problem on a busy system because something else will wake up the CPU soon enough. However, on lightly loaded systems, the CPU might stay asleep for a considerable length of time. If that CPU has a callback that the rest of the system is waiting on, the system might run very slowly or (in theory) even hang. This commit avoids this problem by having rcu_needs_cpu() give tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() an estimate of when RCU will need the CPU to wake back up, which tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() takes into account when programming the CPU's wakeup time. An alternative approach is for rcu_prepare_for_idle() to use hrtimers instead of normal timers, but timers are much more efficient than are hrtimers for frequently and repeatedly posting and cancelling a given timer, which is exactly what RCU_FAST_NO_HZ does. Reported-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr> Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>
2012-06-05Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar. * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Remove NULL assignment of dattr_cur sched: Remove the last NULL entry from sched_feat_names sched: Make sched_feat_names const sched/rt: Fix SCHED_RR across cgroups sched: Move nr_cpus_allowed out of 'struct sched_rt_entity' sched: Make sure to not re-read variables after validation sched: Fix SD_OVERLAP sched: Don't try allocating memory from offline nodes sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load calculations some more sched/x86: Use cpu_llc_shared_mask(cpu) for coregroup_mask
2012-05-30sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load calculations some morePeter Zijlstra
Follow up on commit 556061b00 ("sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[] calculations") since while that fixed the busy case it regressed the mostly idle case. Add a callback from the nohz exit to also age the rq->cpu_load[] array. This closes the hole where either there was no nohz load balance pass during the nohz, or there was a 'significant' amount of idle time between the last nohz balance and the nohz exit. So we'll update unconditionally from the tick to not insert any accidental 0 load periods while busy, and we try and catch up from nohz idle balance and nohz exit. Both these are still prone to missing a jiffy, but that has always been the case. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kt0trz0apodbf84ucjfdbr1a@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-25tick: Move skew_tick option into the HIGH_RES_TIMER sectionThomas Gleixner
commit 5307c95 (tick: Add tick skew boot option) broke the !CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS build. Move the boot option parsing into the CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS section. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
2012-05-25tick: Add tick skew boot optionMike Galbraith
Let the user decide whether power consumption or jitter is the more important consideration for their machines. Quoting removal commit af5ab277ded04bd9bc6b048c5a2f0e7d70ef0867: "Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on xtime_lock. Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition, this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on many-core systems." Problems: - Contrary to the above, systems do encounter contention on both xtime_lock and RCU structure locks when the tick is synchronized. - Moderate sized RT systems suffer intolerable jitter due to the tick being synchronized. - SGI reports the same for their large systems. - Fully utilized systems reap no power saving benefit from skew removal, but do suffer from resulting induced lock contention. - 0209f649 rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout This patch was born to combat lock contention which testing showed to have been _induced by_ skew removal. Skew the tick, contention disappeared virtually completely. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336472458.21924.78.camel@marge.simpson.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-04-06nohz: Fix stale jiffies update in tick_nohz_restart()Neal Cardwell
Fix tick_nohz_restart() to not use a stale ktime_t "now" value when calling tick_do_update_jiffies64(now). If we reach this point in the loop it means that we crossed a tick boundary since we grabbed the "now" timestamp, so at this point "now" refers to a time in the old jiffy, so using the old value for "now" is incorrect, and is likely to give us a stale jiffies value. In particular, the first time through the loop the tick_do_update_jiffies64(now) call is always a no-op, since the caller, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(), will have already called tick_do_update_jiffies64(now) with that "now" value. Note that tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() already uses the correct approach: when we notice we cross a jiffy boundary, grab a new timestamp with ktime_get(), and *then* update jiffies. Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332875377-23014-1-git-send-email-ncardwell@google.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-02-15nohz: Remove ts->Einidle checks before restarting the tickFrederic Weisbecker
ts->inidle is set by tick_nohz_idle_enter() and unset by tick_nohz_idle_exit(). However these two calls are assumed to be always paired. This means that by the time we call tick_nohz_idle_exit(), ts->inidle is supposed to be always set to 1. Remove the checks for ts->inidle in tick_nohz_idle_exit(). This simplifies a bit the code and improves its debuggability (ie: ensure the call is paired with a tick_nohz_idle_enter() call). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327427984-23282-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-02-15nohz: Remove update_ts_time_stat from tick_nohz_start_idleMichal Hocko
There is no reason to call update_ts_time_stat from tick_nohz_start_idle anymore (after e0e37c20 sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate field) when we updated idle_lastupdate unconditionally. We haven't set idle_active yet and do not provide last_update_time so the whole call end up being just 2 wasted branches. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322755222-6951-1-git-send-email-mhocko@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-01-06Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits) sched/tracing: Add a new tracepoint for sleeptime sched: Disable scheduler warnings during oopses sched: Fix cgroup movement of waking process sched: Fix cgroup movement of newly created process sched: Fix cgroup movement of forking process sched: Remove cfs bandwidth period check in tg_set_cfs_period() sched: Fix load-balance lock-breaking sched: Replace all_pinned with a generic flags field sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries sched: Add missing rcu_dereference() around ->real_parent usage [S390] fix cputime overflow in uptime_proc_show [S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup sched: Mark parent and real_parent as __rcu sched, nohz: Fix missing RCU read lock sched, nohz: Set the NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK flag for idle load balancer sched, nohz: Fix the idle cpu check in nohz_idle_balance sched: Use jump_labels for sched_feat sched/accounting: Fix parameter passing in task_group_account_field sched/accounting: Fix user/system tick double accounting sched/accounting: Re-use scheduler statistics for the root cgroup ... Fix up conflicts in - arch/ia64/include/asm/cputime.h, include/asm-generic/cputime.h usecs_to_cputime64() vs the sparse cleanups - kernel/sched/fair.c, kernel/time/tick-sched.c scheduler changes in multiple branches
2011-12-11nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu()Frederic Weisbecker
Those two APIs were provided to optimize the calls of tick_nohz_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_enter() into a single irq disabled section. This way no interrupt happening in-between would needlessly process any RCU job. Now we are talking about an optimization for which benefits have yet to be measured. Let's start simple and completely decouple idle rcu and dyntick idle logics to simplify. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stopFrederic Weisbecker
It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after the tick is stopped. To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs: tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(). If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(). Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly: - rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put to sleep. - rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken up. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logicFrederic Weisbecker
The tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() function, which tries to delay the next timer tick as long as possible, can be called from two places: - From the idle loop to start the dytick idle mode - From interrupt exit if we have interrupted the dyntick idle mode, so that we reprogram the next tick event in case the irq changed some internal state that requires this action. There are only few minor differences between both that are handled by that function, driven by the ts->inidle cpu variable and the inidle parameter. The whole guarantees that we only update the dyntick mode on irq exit if we actually interrupted the dyntick idle mode, and that we enter in RCU extended quiescent state from idle loop entry only. Split this function into: - tick_nohz_idle_enter(), which sets ts->inidle to 1, enters dynticks idle mode unconditionally if it can, and enters into RCU extended quiescent state. - tick_nohz_irq_exit() which only updates the dynticks idle mode when ts->inidle is set (ie: if tick_nohz_idle_enter() has been called). To maintain symmetry, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick() has been renamed into tick_nohz_idle_exit(). This simplifies the code and micro-optimize the irq exit path (no need for local_irq_save there). This also prepares for the split between dynticks and rcu extended quiescent state logics. We'll need this split to further fix illegal uses of RCU in extended quiescent states in the idle loop. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11rcu: Track idleness independent of idle tasksPaul E. McKenney
Earlier versions of RCU used the scheduling-clock tick to detect idleness by checking for the idle task, but handled idleness differently for CONFIG_NO_HZ=y. But there are now a number of uses of RCU read-side critical sections in the idle task, for example, for tracing. A more fine-grained detection of idleness is therefore required. This commit presses the old dyntick-idle code into full-time service, so that rcu_idle_enter(), previously known as rcu_enter_nohz(), is always invoked at the beginning of an idle loop iteration. Similarly, rcu_idle_exit(), previously known as rcu_exit_nohz(), is always invoked at the end of an idle-loop iteration. This allows the idle task to use RCU everywhere except between consecutive rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() calls, in turn allowing architecture maintainers to specify exactly where in the idle loop that RCU may be used. Because some of the userspace upcall uses can result in what looks to RCU like half of an interrupt, it is not possible to expect that the irq_enter() and irq_exit() hooks will give exact counts. This patch therefore expands the ->dynticks_nesting counter to 64 bits and uses two separate bitfields to count process/idle transitions and interrupt entry/exit transitions. It is presumed that userspace upcalls do not happen in the idle loop or from usermode execution (though usermode might do a system call that results in an upcall). The counter is hard-reset on each process/idle transition, which avoids the interrupt entry/exit error from accumulating. Overflow is avoided by the 64-bitness of the ->dyntick_nesting counter. This commit also adds warnings if a non-idle task asks RCU to enter idle state (and these checks will need some adjustment before applying Frederic's OS-jitter patches (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/7/246). In addition, validation of ->dynticks and ->dynticks_nesting is added. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-06sched, nohz: Track nr_busy_cpus in the sched_group_powerSuresh Siddha
Introduce nr_busy_cpus in the struct sched_group_power [Not in sched_group because sched groups are duplicated for the SD_OVERLAP scheduler domain] and for each cpu that enters and exits idle, this parameter will be updated in each scheduler group of the scheduler domain that this cpu belongs to. To avoid the frequent update of this state as the cpu enters and exits idle, the update of the stat during idle exit is delayed to the first timer tick that happens after the cpu becomes busy. This is done using NOHZ_IDLE flag in the struct rq's nohz_flags. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202010832.555984323@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-26Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits) time, s390: Get rid of compile warning dw_apb_timer: constify clocksource name time: Cleanup old CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME references that snuck in time: Change jiffies_to_clock_t() argument type to unsigned long alarmtimers: Fix error handling clocksource: Make watchdog reset lockless posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP accounting oddities s390: Use direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device clockevents: Add direct ktime programming function clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messages proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditional nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accounting cputime: Clean up cputime_to_usecs and usecs_to_cputime macros alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class interface alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionality alarmtimers: Add more refined alarm state tracking alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structure alarmtimers: Remove interval cap limit hack ...
2011-09-28nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_maskShi, Alex
RCU no longer uses this global variable, nor does anyone else. This commit therefore removes this variable. This reduces memory footprint and also removes some atomic instructions and memory barriers from the dyntick-idle path. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-08nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messagesHeiko Carstens
When performing cpu hotplug tests the kernel printk log buffer gets flooded with pointless "Switched to NOHz mode..." messages. Especially when afterwards analyzing a dump this might have removed more interesting stuff out of the buffer. Assuming that switching to NOHz mode simply works just remove the printk. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823112046.GB2540@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-08nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditionalMichal Hocko
get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us update idle/iowait counters unconditionally if the given CPU is in the idle loop. This doesn't work well outside of CPU governors which are singletons so nobody (except for IRQ) can race with them. We will need to use both functions from /proc/stat handler to properly handle nohz idle/iowait times. Make the update depend on a non NULL last_update_time argument. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/11f23179472635ce52e78921d47a20216b872f23.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-08nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accountingMichal Hocko
update_ts_time_stat currently updates idle time even if we are in iowait loop at the moment. The only real users of the idle counter (via get_cpu_idle_time_us) are CPU governors and they expect to get cumulative time for both idle and iowait times. The value (idle_sleeptime) is also printed to userspace by print_cpu but it prints both idle and iowait times so the idle part is misleading. Let's clean this up and fix update_ts_time_stat to account both counters properly and update consumers of idle to consider iowait time as well. If we do this we might use get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us from other contexts as well and we will get expected values. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9c909c221a8da402c4da07e4cd968c3218f8eb1.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-01-31time: Make do_timer() and xtime_lock local to kernel/time/Torben Hohn
All callers of do_timer() are converted to xtime_update(). The only users of xtime_lock are in kernel/time/. Make both local to kernel/time/ and remove them from the global header files. [ tglx: Reuse tick-internal.h instead of creating another local header file. Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com Cc: hch@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-01-19hrtimers: Notify hrtimer users of switches to NOHZ modeStephen Boyd
When NOHZ=y and high res timers are disabled (via cmdline or Kconfig) tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() will notify the user about switching into NOHZ mode. Nothing is printed for the case where HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y. Fix this for the HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y case by duplicating the printk from the low res NOHZ path in the high res NOHZ path. This confused me since I was thinking 'dmesg | grep -i NOHZ' would tell me if NOHZ was enabled, but if I have hrtimers there is nothing. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1295419594-13085-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-06Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: Documentation: Add timers/timers-howto.txt timer: Added usleep_range timer Revert "timer: Added usleep[_range] timer" clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skew posix_timer: Move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down in timer_create() timer: Added usleep[_range] timer timers: Document meaning of deferrable timer
2010-08-05Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/linux/sched.h Merge reason: Add the leftover .35 urgent bits, fix the conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-02clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skewArjan van de Ven
Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on xtime_lock. Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition, this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on many-core systems. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20100727210210.58d3118c@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-21Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Move from the -rc3 to the almost-rc6 base. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-17sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for nowPeter Zijlstra
Norbert reported that nohz_ratelimit() causes his laptop to burn about 4W (40%) extra. For now back out the change and see if we can adjust the power management code to make better decisions. Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-02Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() users init: Fix comment init, sched: Fix race between init and kthreadd
2010-07-01sched: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() usersPeter Zijlstra
Commit 0224cf4c5e (sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us()) broke things by not making sure preemption was indeed disabled by the callers of nr_iowait_cpu() which took the iowait value of the current cpu. This resulted in a heap of preempt warnings. Cure this by making nr_iowait_cpu() take a cpu number and fix up the callers to pass in the right number. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org LKML-Reference: <1277968037.1868.120.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-17nohz: Fix nohz ratelimitPeter Zijlstra
Chris Wedgwood reports that 39c0cbe (sched: Rate-limit nohz) causes a serial console regression, unresponsiveness, and indeed it does. The reason is that the nohz code is skipped even when the tick was already stopped before the nohz_ratelimit(cpu) condition changed. Move the nohz_ratelimit() check to the other conditions which prevent long idle sleeps. Reported-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> Tested-by: Brian Bloniarz <bmb@athenacr.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be> LKML-Reference: <1276790557.27822.516.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-06-09sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push modelVenkatesh Pallipadi
In the new push model, all idle CPUs indeed go into nohz mode. There is still the concept of idle load balancer (performing the load balancing on behalf of all the idle cpu's in the system). Busy CPU kicks the nohz balancer when any of the nohz CPUs need idle load balancing. The kickee CPU does the idle load balancing on behalf of all idle CPUs instead of the normal idle balance. This addresses the below two problems with the current nohz ilb logic: * the idle load balancer continued to have periodic ticks during idle and wokeup frequently, even though it did not have any rebalancing to do on behalf of any of the idle CPUs. * On x86 and CPUs that have APIC timer stoppage on idle CPUs, this periodic wakeup can result in a periodic additional interrupt on a CPU doing the timer broadcast. Also currently we are migrating the unpinned timers from an idle to the cpu doing idle load balancing (when all the cpus in the system are idle, there is no idle load balancing cpu and timers get added to the same idle cpu where the request was made. So the existing optimization works only on semi idle system). And In semi idle system, we no longer have periodic ticks on the idle load balancer CPU. Using that cpu will add more delays to the timers than intended (as that cpu's timer base may not be uptodate wrt jiffies etc). This was causing mysterious slowdowns during boot etc. For now, in the semi idle case, use the nearest busy cpu for migrating timers from an idle cpu. This is good for power-savings anyway. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1274486981.2840.46.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us()Arjan van de Ven
For the ondemand cpufreq governor, it is desired that the iowait time is microaccounted in a similar way as idle time is. This patch introduces the infrastructure to account and expose this information via the get_cpu_iowait_time_us() function. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NO_HZ=n build] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082523.284feab6@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate fieldArjan van de Ven
Now that the only user of ts->idle_lastupdate is update_ts_time_stats(), the entire field can be eliminated. In update_ts_time_stats(), idle_lastupdate is first set to "now", and a few lines later, the only user is an if() statement that assigns a variable either to "now" or to ts->idle_lastupdate, which has the value of "now" at that point. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082439.2fab0b4f@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Fold updating of the last_update_time_info into update_ts_time_stats()Arjan van de Ven
This patch folds the updating of the last_update_time into the update_ts_time_stats() function, and updates the callers. This allows for further cleanups that are done in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082403.60072967@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Update the idle statistics in get_cpu_idle_time_us()Arjan van de Ven
Right now, get_cpu_idle_time_us() only reports the idle statistics upto the point the CPU entered last idle; not what is valid right now. This patch adds an update of the idle statistics to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), so that calling this function always returns statistics that are accurate at the point of the call. This includes resetting the start of the idle time for accounting purposes to avoid double accounting. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082323.2d2f1945@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Introduce a function to update the idle statisticsArjan van de Ven
Currently, two places update the idle statistics (and more to come later in this series). This patch creates a helper function for updating these statistics. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082245.163e67ed@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us()Arjan van de Ven
The exported function get_cpu_idle_time_us() has no comment describing it; add a kerneldoc comment Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082208.7cb721f0@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11sched: Rate-limit nohzMike Galbraith
Entering nohz code on every micro-idle is costing ~10% throughput for netperf TCP_RR when scheduling cross-cpu. Rate limiting entry fixes this, but raises ticks a bit. On my Q6600, an idle box goes from ~85 interrupts/sec to 128. The higher the context switch rate, the more nohz entry costs. With this patch and some cycle recovery patches in my tree, max cross cpu context switch rate is improved by ~16%, a large portion of which of which is this ratelimiting. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268301003.6785.28.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-08Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers, init: Limit the number of per cpu calibration bootup messages posix-cpu-timers: optimize and document timer_create callback clockevents: Add missing include to pacify sparse x86: vmiclock: Fix printk format x86: Fix printk format due to variable type change sparc: fix printk for change of variable type clocksource/events: Fix fallout of generic code changes nohz: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds nohz: Track last do_timer() cpu nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle nohz: Type cast printk argument mips: Use generic mult/shift factor calculation for clocks clocksource: Provide a generic mult/shift factor calculation clockevents: Use u32 for mult and shift factors nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpu nohz: Reuse ktime in sub-functions of tick_check_idle. time: Remove xtime_cache time: Implement logarithmic time accumulation
2009-11-13nohz: Track last do_timer() cpuThomas Gleixner
The previous patch which limits the sleep time to the maximum deferment time of the time keeping clocksource has some limitations on SMP machines: if all CPUs are idle then for all CPUs the maximum sleep time is limited. Solve this by keeping track of which cpu had the do_timer() duty assigned last and limit the sleep time only for this cpu. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>