linux-kernel - [PATCH 36/41] sched: Update nohz rq clock before searching busiest group on load balancing

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Message-Id: <1335830115-14335-37-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue,  1 May 2012 01:55:10 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linaro-sched-sig@...ts.linaro.org
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
	Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
	Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>,
	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 36/41] sched: Update nohz rq clock before searching busiest group on load balancing

While load balancing an rq target, we look for the busiest group.
This operation may require an uptodate rq clock if we end up calling
scale_rt_power(). To this end, update it manually if the target is
running tickless.

DOUBT: don't we actually also need this in vanilla kernel, in case
this_cpu is in dyntick-idle mode?

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@...il.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@...il.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index cd871e7..af8377f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4466,6 +4466,19 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
 
 	schedstat_inc(sd, lb_count[idle]);
 
+	/*
+	 * find_busiest_group() may need an uptodate cpu clock
+	 * for find_busiest_group() (see scale_rt_power()). If
+	 * the CPU is nohz, it's clock may be stale.
+	 */
+	if (cpuset_cpu_adaptive_nohz(this_cpu)) {
+		local_irq_save(flags);
+		raw_spin_lock(&this_rq->lock);
+		update_rq_clock(this_rq);
+		raw_spin_unlock(&this_rq->lock);
+		local_irq_restore(flags);
+	}
+
 redo:
 	group = find_busiest_group(sd, this_cpu, &imbalance, idle,
 				   cpus, balance);
-- 
1.7.5.4

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