linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/9] nohz: Implement wide kick on top of irq work

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Date:	Thu,  4 Feb 2016 18:00:48 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/9] nohz: Implement wide kick on top of irq work

It simplifies it and allows wide kick to be performed, even when IRQs
are disabled, without an asynchronous level in the middle.

This comes at a cost of some more overhead on features like perf and
posix cpu timers slow-paths, which is probably not much important
for nohz full users.

Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 9d7a053..f6a980f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -232,24 +232,20 @@ void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu)
 	irq_work_queue_on(&per_cpu(nohz_full_kick_work, cpu), cpu);
 }
 
-static void nohz_full_kick_ipi(void *info)
-{
-	/* Empty, the tick restart happens on tick_nohz_irq_exit() */
-}
-
 /*
  * Kick all full dynticks CPUs in order to force these to re-evaluate
  * their dependency on the tick and restart it if necessary.
  */
 void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void)
 {
+	int cpu;
+
 	if (!tick_nohz_full_running)
 		return;
 
 	preempt_disable();
-	smp_call_function_many(tick_nohz_full_mask,
-			       nohz_full_kick_ipi, NULL, false);
-	tick_nohz_full_kick();
+	for_each_cpu_and(cpu, tick_nohz_full_mask, cpu_online_mask)
+		tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(cpu);
 	preempt_enable();
 }
 
-- 
2.7.0