linux/kernel/time
Frederic Weisbecker 3c8920e2db tick/nohz: Narrow down noise while setting current task's tick dependency
Setting a tick dependency on any task, including the case where a task
sets that dependency on itself, triggers an IPI to all CPUs.  That is
of course suboptimal but it had previously not been an issue because it
was only used by POSIX CPU timers on nohz_full, which apparently never
occurs in latency-sensitive workloads in production.  (Or users of such
systems are suffering in silence on the one hand or venting their ire
on the wrong people on the other.)

But RCU now sets a task tick dependency on the current task in order
to fix stall issues that can occur during RCU callback processing.
Thus, RCU callback processing triggers frequent system-wide IPIs from
nohz_full CPUs.  This is quite counter-productive, after all, avoiding
IPIs is what nohz_full is supposed to be all about.

This commit therefore optimizes tasks' self-setting of a task tick
dependency by using tick_nohz_full_kick() to avoid the system-wide IPI.
Instead, only the execution of the one task is disturbed, which is
acceptable given that this disturbance is well down into the noise
compared to the degree to which the RCU callback processing itself
disturbs execution.

Fixes: 6a949b7af8 (rcu: Force on tick when invoking lots of callbacks)
Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-06-29 11:58:50 -07:00
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alarmtimer.c alarmtimer: Make alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() a stub when CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=n 2020-01-24 21:03:53 +01:00
clockevents.c tick: Remove outgoing CPU from broadcast masks 2019-03-23 18:26:43 +01:00
clocksource.c clocksource: Remove obsolete ifdef 2020-06-09 16:36:47 +02:00
hrtimer.c hrtimer: Don't dereference the hrtimer pointer after the callback 2020-04-01 13:20:14 +02:00
itimer.c y2038: rename itimerval to __kernel_old_itimerval 2019-12-18 18:07:33 +01:00
jiffies.c timekeeping: Split jiffies seqlock 2020-03-21 16:00:23 +01:00
Kconfig treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Makefile ns: Introduce Time Namespace 2020-01-14 12:20:48 +01:00
namespace.c nsproxy: add struct nsset 2020-05-09 13:57:12 +02:00
ntp_internal.h ntp: Audit NTP parameters adjustment 2019-04-15 18:14:01 -04:00
ntp.c ntp/y2038: Remove incorrect time_t truncation 2019-11-12 08:13:44 +01:00
posix-clock.c posix-clocks: Rename the clock_get() callback to clock_get_timespec() 2020-01-14 12:20:49 +01:00
posix-cpu-timers.c posix-cpu-timers: Replace __get_task_for_clock with pid_for_clock 2020-04-29 08:14:41 -05:00
posix-stubs.c posix-timers: Make clock_nanosleep() time namespace aware 2020-01-14 12:20:55 +01:00
posix-timers.c posix-timers: Pass lockdep expression to RCU lists 2020-02-17 20:12:19 +01:00
posix-timers.h posix-clocks: Introduce clock_get_ktime() callback 2020-01-14 12:20:51 +01:00
sched_clock.c time/sched_clock: Expire timer in hardirq context 2020-03-19 09:45:08 +01:00
test_udelay.c time/debug: Remove license boilerplate 2018-11-23 11:51:21 +01:00
tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c tick: broadcast-hrtimer: Fix a race in bc_set_next 2019-09-27 14:45:55 +02:00
tick-broadcast.c tick: Fix typos in comments 2019-04-19 19:17:04 +02:00
tick-common.c timekeeping: Split jiffies seqlock 2020-03-21 16:00:23 +01:00
tick-internal.h tick: Remove outgoing CPU from broadcast masks 2019-03-23 18:26:43 +01:00
tick-oneshot.c hrtimers/tick/clockevents: Remove sloppy license references 2018-11-23 11:51:21 +01:00
tick-sched.c tick/nohz: Narrow down noise while setting current task's tick dependency 2020-06-29 11:58:50 -07:00
tick-sched.h tick/sched: Update tick_sched struct documentation 2019-03-24 20:29:32 +01:00
time.c y2038: remove unused time32 interfaces 2020-02-21 11:22:15 -08:00
timeconst.bc time: Add SPDX license identifiers 2018-11-23 11:51:20 +01:00
timeconv.c time: Add SPDX license identifiers 2018-11-23 11:51:20 +01:00
timecounter.c time: Remove license boilerplate 2018-11-23 11:51:21 +01:00
timekeeping_debug.c timekeeping/debug: No need to check return value of debugfs_create functions 2019-01-29 20:08:41 +01:00
timekeeping_internal.h timekeeping/ntp: Constify some function arguments 2018-07-19 17:08:05 -07:00
timekeeping.c x86/mce: Address objtools noinstr complaints 2020-06-11 15:15:02 +02:00
timekeeping.h timekeeping: Split jiffies seqlock 2020-03-21 16:00:23 +01:00
timer_list.c timer_list: Guard procfs specific code 2019-06-23 00:08:52 +02:00
timer.c sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
vsyscall.c lib/vdso: Avoid highres update if clocksource is not VDSO capable 2020-02-17 20:12:17 +01:00