linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 19/32] nohz/cpuset: Restart tick when nohz flag is cleared on cpuset

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Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:02:01 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@....ibm.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Tim Pepper <lnxninja@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/32] nohz/cpuset: Restart tick when nohz flag is
 cleared on cpuset

On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 17:52 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> +++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
> @@ -1199,6 +1199,14 @@ static void cpuset_change_flag(struct task_struct *tsk,
>  
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, cpu_adaptive_nohz_ref);
>  
> +static void cpu_exit_nohz(int cpu)
> +{
> +       preempt_disable();
> +       smp_call_function_single(cpu, cpuset_exit_nohz_interrupt,
> +                                NULL, true);
> +       preempt_enable();
> +}
> +
>  static void update_nohz_cpus(struct cpuset *old_cs, struct cpuset *cs)
>  {
>         int cpu;
> @@ -1212,6 +1220,19 @@ static void update_nohz_cpus(struct cpuset *old_cs, struct cpuset *cs)
>                         per_cpu(cpu_adaptive_nohz_ref, cpu) += 1;
>                 else
>                         per_cpu(cpu_adaptive_nohz_ref, cpu) -= 1;
> +
> +               val = per_cpu(cpu_adaptive_nohz_ref, cpu);
> +
> +               if (!val) {
> +                       /*
> +                        * The update to cpu_adaptive_nohz_ref must be
> +                        * visible right away. So that once we restart the tick
> +                        * from the IPI, it won't be stopped again due to cache
> +                        * update lag.
> +                        */
> +                       smp_mb();
> +                       cpu_exit_nohz(cpu);
> +               }
>         }
>  }
>  #else
> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> index 78ea0a5..75378be 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -2513,6 +2513,14 @@ void cpuset_update_nohz(void)
>                 cpuset_nohz_restart_tick();
>  }
>  
> +void cpuset_exit_nohz_interrupt(void *unused)
> +{
> +       if (!tick_nohz_adaptive_mode())
> +               return;
> +
> +       cpuset_nohz_restart_tick();
> +} 

You do this just to annoy me, right? Why doesn't it live in cpuset.c
where you use it?
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