linux-kernel - kernel/timer: avoid spurious ksoftirqd wakeups (v2)

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Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 2015 20:15:57 -0300
From:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: kernel/timer: avoid spurious ksoftirqd wakeups (v2)



It is only necessary to raise timer softirq
in case there are active timers.

Limit the ksoftirqd wakeup to that case.

Fixes a latency spike with isolated CPUs and
nohz full mode.

v2: fix variable initialization
    do not raise timer softirq due to pending irqwork 

Reported-and-tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index 8c5a197..0c065f9 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ extern void set_timer_slack(struct timer_list *time, int slack_hz);
  * locks the timer base and does the comparison against the given
  * jiffie.
  */
-extern unsigned long get_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long now);
+extern unsigned long get_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long now, bool *raise_softirq);
 
 /*
  * Timer-statistics info:
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index a4c4eda..1ee688c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -568,6 +568,7 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts,
 	unsigned long rcu_delta_jiffies;
 	struct clock_event_device *dev = __this_cpu_read(tick_cpu_device.evtdev);
 	u64 time_delta;
+	bool raise_softirq = false;
 
 	time_delta = timekeeping_max_deferment();
 
@@ -584,7 +585,8 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts,
 		delta_jiffies = 1;
 	} else {
 		/* Get the next timer wheel timer */
-		next_jiffies = get_next_timer_interrupt(last_jiffies);
+		next_jiffies = get_next_timer_interrupt(last_jiffies,
+							&raise_softirq);
 		delta_jiffies = next_jiffies - last_jiffies;
 		if (rcu_delta_jiffies < delta_jiffies) {
 			next_jiffies = last_jiffies + rcu_delta_jiffies;
@@ -703,7 +705,8 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts,
 		 */
 		tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_get());
 	}
-	raise_softirq_irqoff(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
+	if (raise_softirq)
+		raise_softirq_irqoff(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
 out:
 	ts->next_jiffies = next_jiffies;
 	ts->last_jiffies = last_jiffies;
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 2d3f5c5..771f811 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1343,7 +1343,7 @@ static unsigned long cmp_next_hrtimer_event(unsigned long now,
  * get_next_timer_interrupt - return the jiffy of the next pending timer
  * @now: current time (in jiffies)
  */
-unsigned long get_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long now)
+unsigned long get_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long now, bool *raise_softirq)
 {
 	struct tvec_base *base = __this_cpu_read(tvec_bases);
 	unsigned long expires = now + NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA;
@@ -1357,6 +1357,7 @@ unsigned long get_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long now)
 
 	spin_lock(&base->lock);
 	if (base->active_timers) {
+		*raise_softirq = true;
 		if (time_before_eq(base->next_timer, base->timer_jiffies))
 			base->next_timer = __next_timer_interrupt(base);
 		expires = base->next_timer;

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