linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] nohz: make nohz

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Message-ID: <1428084499.3475.40.camel@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 03 Apr 2015 20:08:19 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
To:	cmetcalf@...hip.com
Cc:	"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nohz: make nohz_full imply isolcpus

On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 12:24 -0400, cmetcalf@...hip.com wrote:
> From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
> 
> It's not clear that nohz_full is useful without isolcpus also
> set, since otherwise the scheduler has to run periodically to
> try to determine whether to steal work from other cores.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>

Ack!  nohz_full= as currently defined makes zero sense when the cpu 
set (which should be spelled cpuset) remains connected to the 
scheduler.  Perturbation of tasks to PREVENT cpu domination is what 
the scheduler does for a living.  Sprinkling microsecond savers all 
over the kernel is pretty silly if you don't shut down the mother lode 
of perturbation.

> ---
> I am puzzled why this has not been done before, so I suspect
> there is some argument against it that I am missing, but I
> wasn't able to turn anything up by searching LKML.
> 
>  kernel/sched/core.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index f0f831e8a345..275f12c608f2 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -6836,6 +6836,7 @@ static int init_sched_domains(const struct 
> cpumask *cpu_map)
>       doms_cur = alloc_sched_domains(ndoms_cur);
>       if (!doms_cur)
>               doms_cur = &fallback_doms;
> +     tick_nohz_full_set_cpus(cpu_isolated_map);
>       cpumask_andnot(doms_cur[0], cpu_map, cpu_isolated_map);
>       err = build_sched_domains(doms_cur[0], NULL);
>       register_sched_domain_sysctl();
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