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authorVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>2021-02-24 14:30:06 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2021-03-06 12:40:22 +0100
commitc6f886546cb8a38617cdbe755fe50d3acd2463e4 (patch)
tree7bc2bc591b13312964251693f7a005f00f616f59 /kernel/sched/fair.c
parentsched/fair: Reorder newidle_balance pulled_task tests (diff)
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sched/fair: Trigger the update of blocked load on newly idle cpu
Instead of waking up a random and already idle CPU, we can take advantage of this_cpu being about to enter idle to run the ILB and update the blocked load. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210224133007.28644-7-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/fair.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c24
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 356a2456c5e9..e87e1b3bcdca 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -10453,6 +10453,24 @@ static bool nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, enum cpu_idle_type idle)
return true;
}
+/*
+ * Check if we need to run the ILB for updating blocked load before entering
+ * idle state.
+ */
+void nohz_run_idle_balance(int cpu)
+{
+ unsigned int flags;
+
+ flags = atomic_fetch_andnot(NOHZ_NEWILB_KICK, nohz_flags(cpu));
+
+ /*
+ * Update the blocked load only if no SCHED_SOFTIRQ is about to happen
+ * (ie NOHZ_STATS_KICK set) and will do the same.
+ */
+ if ((flags == NOHZ_NEWILB_KICK) && !need_resched())
+ _nohz_idle_balance(cpu_rq(cpu), NOHZ_STATS_KICK, CPU_IDLE);
+}
+
static void nohz_newidle_balance(struct rq *this_rq)
{
int this_cpu = this_rq->cpu;
@@ -10474,10 +10492,10 @@ static void nohz_newidle_balance(struct rq *this_rq)
return;
/*
- * Blocked load of idle CPUs need to be updated.
- * Kick an ILB to update statistics.
+ * Set the need to trigger ILB in order to update blocked load
+ * before entering idle state.
*/
- kick_ilb(NOHZ_STATS_KICK);
+ atomic_or(NOHZ_NEWILB_KICK, nohz_flags(this_cpu));
}
#else /* !CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON */