linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/4 v4] sched,time: reduce nohz

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Message-Id: <1454354466-31309-1-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon,  1 Feb 2016 14:21:02 -0500
From:	riel@...hat.com
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, fweisbec@...il.com,
	clark@...hat.com, luto@...capital.net, mingo@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4 v4] sched,time: reduce nohz_full syscall overhead 40%

(v4: address comments by Peter and Frederic)

Running with nohz_full introduces a fair amount of overhead.
Specifically, various things that are usually done from the
timer interrupt are now done at syscall, irq, and guest
entry and exit times.

However, some of the code that is called every single time
has only ever worked at jiffy resolution. The code in
__acct_update_integrals was also doing some unnecessary
calculations.

Getting rid of the unnecessary calculations, without
changing any of the functionality in __acct_update_integrals
gets us about an 11% win.

Not calling the time statistics updating code more than
once per jiffy, like is done on housekeeping CPUs and on
all the CPUs of a non-nohz_full system, shaves off a
further 30%.

I tested this series with a microbenchmark calling
an invalid syscall number ten million times in a row,
on a nohz_full cpu.

    Run times for the microbenchmark:

4.4				3.8 seconds
4.5-rc1				3.7 seconds
4.5-rc1 + first patch		3.3 seconds
4.5-rc1 + first 3 patches	3.1 seconds
4.5-rc1 + all patches		2.3 seconds