linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] nohz: Move idle balancer registration to idle path

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Date:   Mon, 19 Jun 2017 04:12:01 +0200
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] nohz: Move idle balancer registration to idle path

The idle load balancing registration path assumes that we only stop the
tick when the CPU is idle, ignoring the nohz full case. As a result, a
nohz full CPU that is running a task may be chosen to perform idle load
balancing.

Lets make sure that only CPUs in dynticks idle mode can be picked as
idle load balancers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 1c9a508..77c3be5 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -785,7 +785,6 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts,
 	 * the scheduler tick in nohz_restart_sched_tick.
 	 */
 	if (!ts->tick_stopped) {
-		nohz_balance_enter_idle(cpu);
 		calc_load_nohz_start();
 		cpu_load_update_nohz_start();
 
@@ -938,8 +937,10 @@ static void __tick_nohz_idle_enter(struct tick_sched *ts)
 			ts->idle_expires = expires;
 		}
 
-		if (!was_stopped && ts->tick_stopped)
+		if (!was_stopped && ts->tick_stopped) {
 			ts->idle_jiffies = ts->last_jiffies;
+			nohz_balance_enter_idle(cpu);
+		}
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.7.4