linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rcu: Only pin GP kthread when full dynticks is actually used

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:09:35 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rcu: Only pin GP kthread when full dynticks is actually
 used

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 08:58:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Maybe what we should do instead is to have something like this on RCU kthread init:
> > 
> >           cpumask_var_t gp_kthread_mask;
> > 
> >           if (alloc_cpumask_var(gp_kthread_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
> >               return -EFAULT;
> > 
> >           cpumask_andnot(gp_kthread_mask, cpu_possible_mask, tick_nohz_full_mask);
> > 
> > 	  set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, gp_kthread_mask);
> > 
> > 	  free_cpumask_var(gp_kthread_mask);
> 
> I was guessing that RCU's kthreads would not be the only ones that wanted
> similar binding.  But if you feel strongly about this, we could at least
> start by placing it local to RCU as above.

Hmm, I don't feel well creating mirrored cpumasks (nor solely negation cpumasks in general).
Also exposing that nohz gut is probably not a good idea either, except for RCU due to
the sysidle stuff.

Now you're right that we can expect that this non-nohz affinity stuff is going to be reused.

Could it be housekeeping_affine(struct task_struct *tsk) maybe?
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