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2012-04-06nohz: Fix stale jiffies update in tick_nohz_restart()Neal Cardwell1-2/+2
Fix tick_nohz_restart() to not use a stale ktime_t "now" value when calling tick_do_update_jiffies64(now). If we reach this point in the loop it means that we crossed a tick boundary since we grabbed the "now" timestamp, so at this point "now" refers to a time in the old jiffy, so using the old value for "now" is incorrect, and is likely to give us a stale jiffies value. In particular, the first time through the loop the tick_do_update_jiffies64(now) call is always a no-op, since the caller, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(), will have already called tick_do_update_jiffies64(now) with that "now" value. Note that tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() already uses the correct approach: when we notice we cross a jiffy boundary, grab a new timestamp with ktime_get(), and *then* update jiffies. Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332875377-23014-1-git-send-email-ncardwell@google.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-02-15nohz: Remove ts->Einidle checks before restarting the tickFrederic Weisbecker1-5/+6
ts->inidle is set by tick_nohz_idle_enter() and unset by tick_nohz_idle_exit(). However these two calls are assumed to be always paired. This means that by the time we call tick_nohz_idle_exit(), ts->inidle is supposed to be always set to 1. Remove the checks for ts->inidle in tick_nohz_idle_exit(). This simplifies a bit the code and improves its debuggability (ie: ensure the call is paired with a tick_nohz_idle_enter() call). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327427984-23282-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-02-15nohz: Remove update_ts_time_stat from tick_nohz_start_idleMichal Hocko1-5/+1
There is no reason to call update_ts_time_stat from tick_nohz_start_idle anymore (after e0e37c20 sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate field) when we updated idle_lastupdate unconditionally. We haven't set idle_active yet and do not provide last_update_time so the whole call end up being just 2 wasted branches. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322755222-6951-1-git-send-email-mhocko@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-01-06Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-0/+8
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits) sched/tracing: Add a new tracepoint for sleeptime sched: Disable scheduler warnings during oopses sched: Fix cgroup movement of waking process sched: Fix cgroup movement of newly created process sched: Fix cgroup movement of forking process sched: Remove cfs bandwidth period check in tg_set_cfs_period() sched: Fix load-balance lock-breaking sched: Replace all_pinned with a generic flags field sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries sched: Add missing rcu_dereference() around ->real_parent usage [S390] fix cputime overflow in uptime_proc_show [S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup sched: Mark parent and real_parent as __rcu sched, nohz: Fix missing RCU read lock sched, nohz: Set the NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK flag for idle load balancer sched, nohz: Fix the idle cpu check in nohz_idle_balance sched: Use jump_labels for sched_feat sched/accounting: Fix parameter passing in task_group_account_field sched/accounting: Fix user/system tick double accounting sched/accounting: Re-use scheduler statistics for the root cgroup ... Fix up conflicts in - arch/ia64/include/asm/cputime.h, include/asm-generic/cputime.h usecs_to_cputime64() vs the sparse cleanups - kernel/sched/fair.c, kernel/time/tick-sched.c scheduler changes in multiple branches
2011-12-11nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu()Frederic Weisbecker1-7/+8
Those two APIs were provided to optimize the calls of tick_nohz_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_enter() into a single irq disabled section. This way no interrupt happening in-between would needlessly process any RCU job. Now we are talking about an optimization for which benefits have yet to be measured. Let's start simple and completely decouple idle rcu and dyntick idle logics to simplify. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stopFrederic Weisbecker1-12/+13
It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after the tick is stopped. To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs: tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(). If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(). Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly: - rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put to sleep. - rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken up. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logicFrederic Weisbecker1-36/+57
The tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() function, which tries to delay the next timer tick as long as possible, can be called from two places: - From the idle loop to start the dytick idle mode - From interrupt exit if we have interrupted the dyntick idle mode, so that we reprogram the next tick event in case the irq changed some internal state that requires this action. There are only few minor differences between both that are handled by that function, driven by the ts->inidle cpu variable and the inidle parameter. The whole guarantees that we only update the dyntick mode on irq exit if we actually interrupted the dyntick idle mode, and that we enter in RCU extended quiescent state from idle loop entry only. Split this function into: - tick_nohz_idle_enter(), which sets ts->inidle to 1, enters dynticks idle mode unconditionally if it can, and enters into RCU extended quiescent state. - tick_nohz_irq_exit() which only updates the dynticks idle mode when ts->inidle is set (ie: if tick_nohz_idle_enter() has been called). To maintain symmetry, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick() has been renamed into tick_nohz_idle_exit(). This simplifies the code and micro-optimize the irq exit path (no need for local_irq_save there). This also prepares for the split between dynticks and rcu extended quiescent state logics. We'll need this split to further fix illegal uses of RCU in extended quiescent states in the idle loop. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11rcu: Track idleness independent of idle tasksPaul E. McKenney1-3/+3
Earlier versions of RCU used the scheduling-clock tick to detect idleness by checking for the idle task, but handled idleness differently for CONFIG_NO_HZ=y. But there are now a number of uses of RCU read-side critical sections in the idle task, for example, for tracing. A more fine-grained detection of idleness is therefore required. This commit presses the old dyntick-idle code into full-time service, so that rcu_idle_enter(), previously known as rcu_enter_nohz(), is always invoked at the beginning of an idle loop iteration. Similarly, rcu_idle_exit(), previously known as rcu_exit_nohz(), is always invoked at the end of an idle-loop iteration. This allows the idle task to use RCU everywhere except between consecutive rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() calls, in turn allowing architecture maintainers to specify exactly where in the idle loop that RCU may be used. Because some of the userspace upcall uses can result in what looks to RCU like half of an interrupt, it is not possible to expect that the irq_enter() and irq_exit() hooks will give exact counts. This patch therefore expands the ->dynticks_nesting counter to 64 bits and uses two separate bitfields to count process/idle transitions and interrupt entry/exit transitions. It is presumed that userspace upcalls do not happen in the idle loop or from usermode execution (though usermode might do a system call that results in an upcall). The counter is hard-reset on each process/idle transition, which avoids the interrupt entry/exit error from accumulating. Overflow is avoided by the 64-bitness of the ->dyntick_nesting counter. This commit also adds warnings if a non-idle task asks RCU to enter idle state (and these checks will need some adjustment before applying Frederic's OS-jitter patches (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/7/246). In addition, validation of ->dynticks and ->dynticks_nesting is added. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-06sched, nohz: Track nr_busy_cpus in the sched_group_powerSuresh Siddha1-0/+9
Introduce nr_busy_cpus in the struct sched_group_power [Not in sched_group because sched groups are duplicated for the SD_OVERLAP scheduler domain] and for each cpu that enters and exits idle, this parameter will be updated in each scheduler group of the scheduler domain that this cpu belongs to. To avoid the frequent update of this state as the cpu enters and exits idle, the update of the stat during idle exit is delayed to the first timer tick that happens after the cpu becomes busy. This is done using NOHZ_IDLE flag in the struct rq's nohz_flags. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202010832.555984323@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-26Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-15/+40
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits) time, s390: Get rid of compile warning dw_apb_timer: constify clocksource name time: Cleanup old CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME references that snuck in time: Change jiffies_to_clock_t() argument type to unsigned long alarmtimers: Fix error handling clocksource: Make watchdog reset lockless posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP accounting oddities s390: Use direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device clockevents: Add direct ktime programming function clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messages proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditional nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accounting cputime: Clean up cputime_to_usecs and usecs_to_cputime macros alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class interface alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionality alarmtimers: Add more refined alarm state tracking alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structure alarmtimers: Remove interval cap limit hack ...
2011-09-28nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_maskShi, Alex1-6/+0
RCU no longer uses this global variable, nor does anyone else. This commit therefore removes this variable. This reduces memory footprint and also removes some atomic instructions and memory barriers from the dyntick-idle path. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-08nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messagesHeiko Carstens1-5/+1
When performing cpu hotplug tests the kernel printk log buffer gets flooded with pointless "Switched to NOHz mode..." messages. Especially when afterwards analyzing a dump this might have removed more interesting stuff out of the buffer. Assuming that switching to NOHz mode simply works just remove the printk. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823112046.GB2540@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-08nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditionalMichal Hocko1-6/+35
get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us update idle/iowait counters unconditionally if the given CPU is in the idle loop. This doesn't work well outside of CPU governors which are singletons so nobody (except for IRQ) can race with them. We will need to use both functions from /proc/stat handler to properly handle nohz idle/iowait times. Make the update depend on a non NULL last_update_time argument. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/11f23179472635ce52e78921d47a20216b872f23.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-08nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accountingMichal Hocko1-4/+4
update_ts_time_stat currently updates idle time even if we are in iowait loop at the moment. The only real users of the idle counter (via get_cpu_idle_time_us) are CPU governors and they expect to get cumulative time for both idle and iowait times. The value (idle_sleeptime) is also printed to userspace by print_cpu but it prints both idle and iowait times so the idle part is misleading. Let's clean this up and fix update_ts_time_stat to account both counters properly and update consumers of idle to consider iowait time as well. If we do this we might use get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us from other contexts as well and we will get expected values. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9c909c221a8da402c4da07e4cd968c3218f8eb1.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-01-31time: Make do_timer() and xtime_lock local to kernel/time/Torben Hohn1-1/+0
All callers of do_timer() are converted to xtime_update(). The only users of xtime_lock are in kernel/time/. Make both local to kernel/time/ and remove them from the global header files. [ tglx: Reuse tick-internal.h instead of creating another local header file. Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com Cc: hch@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-01-19hrtimers: Notify hrtimer users of switches to NOHZ modeStephen Boyd1-3/+4
When NOHZ=y and high res timers are disabled (via cmdline or Kconfig) tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() will notify the user about switching into NOHZ mode. Nothing is printed for the case where HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y. Fix this for the HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y case by duplicating the printk from the low res NOHZ path in the high res NOHZ path. This confused me since I was thinking 'dmesg | grep -i NOHZ' would tell me if NOHZ was enabled, but if I have hrtimers there is nothing. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1295419594-13085-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-06Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-5/+0
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: Documentation: Add timers/timers-howto.txt timer: Added usleep_range timer Revert "timer: Added usleep[_range] timer" clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skew posix_timer: Move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down in timer_create() timer: Added usleep[_range] timer timers: Document meaning of deferrable timer
2010-08-05Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar1-1/+1
Conflicts: include/linux/sched.h Merge reason: Add the leftover .35 urgent bits, fix the conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-02clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skewArjan van de Ven1-5/+0
Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on xtime_lock. Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition, this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on many-core systems. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20100727210210.58d3118c@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-21Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar1-12/+9
Merge reason: Move from the -rc3 to the almost-rc6 base. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-17sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for nowPeter Zijlstra1-1/+1
Norbert reported that nohz_ratelimit() causes his laptop to burn about 4W (40%) extra. For now back out the change and see if we can adjust the power management code to make better decisions. Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-02Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-8/+8
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() users init: Fix comment init, sched: Fix race between init and kthreadd
2010-07-01sched: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() usersPeter Zijlstra1-8/+8
Commit 0224cf4c5e (sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us()) broke things by not making sure preemption was indeed disabled by the callers of nr_iowait_cpu() which took the iowait value of the current cpu. This resulted in a heap of preempt warnings. Cure this by making nr_iowait_cpu() take a cpu number and fix up the callers to pass in the right number. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org LKML-Reference: <1277968037.1868.120.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-17nohz: Fix nohz ratelimitPeter Zijlstra1-4/+1
Chris Wedgwood reports that 39c0cbe (sched: Rate-limit nohz) causes a serial console regression, unresponsiveness, and indeed it does. The reason is that the nohz code is skipped even when the tick was already stopped before the nohz_ratelimit(cpu) condition changed. Move the nohz_ratelimit() check to the other conditions which prevent long idle sleeps. Reported-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> Tested-by: Brian Bloniarz <bmb@athenacr.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be> LKML-Reference: <1276790557.27822.516.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-06-09sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push modelVenkatesh Pallipadi1-7/+1
In the new push model, all idle CPUs indeed go into nohz mode. There is still the concept of idle load balancer (performing the load balancing on behalf of all the idle cpu's in the system). Busy CPU kicks the nohz balancer when any of the nohz CPUs need idle load balancing. The kickee CPU does the idle load balancing on behalf of all idle CPUs instead of the normal idle balance. This addresses the below two problems with the current nohz ilb logic: * the idle load balancer continued to have periodic ticks during idle and wokeup frequently, even though it did not have any rebalancing to do on behalf of any of the idle CPUs. * On x86 and CPUs that have APIC timer stoppage on idle CPUs, this periodic wakeup can result in a periodic additional interrupt on a CPU doing the timer broadcast. Also currently we are migrating the unpinned timers from an idle to the cpu doing idle load balancing (when all the cpus in the system are idle, there is no idle load balancing cpu and timers get added to the same idle cpu where the request was made. So the existing optimization works only on semi idle system). And In semi idle system, we no longer have periodic ticks on the idle load balancer CPU. Using that cpu will add more delays to the timers than intended (as that cpu's timer base may not be uptodate wrt jiffies etc). This was causing mysterious slowdowns during boot etc. For now, in the semi idle case, use the nearest busy cpu for migrating timers from an idle cpu. This is good for power-savings anyway. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1274486981.2840.46.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us()Arjan van de Ven1-0/+28
For the ondemand cpufreq governor, it is desired that the iowait time is microaccounted in a similar way as idle time is. This patch introduces the infrastructure to account and expose this information via the get_cpu_iowait_time_us() function. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NO_HZ=n build] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082523.284feab6@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate fieldArjan van de Ven1-4/+1
Now that the only user of ts->idle_lastupdate is update_ts_time_stats(), the entire field can be eliminated. In update_ts_time_stats(), idle_lastupdate is first set to "now", and a few lines later, the only user is an if() statement that assigns a variable either to "now" or to ts->idle_lastupdate, which has the value of "now" at that point. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082439.2fab0b4f@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Fold updating of the last_update_time_info into update_ts_time_stats()Arjan van de Ven1-11/+11
This patch folds the updating of the last_update_time into the update_ts_time_stats() function, and updates the callers. This allows for further cleanups that are done in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082403.60072967@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Update the idle statistics in get_cpu_idle_time_us()Arjan van de Ven1-1/+6
Right now, get_cpu_idle_time_us() only reports the idle statistics upto the point the CPU entered last idle; not what is valid right now. This patch adds an update of the idle statistics to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), so that calling this function always returns statistics that are accurate at the point of the call. This includes resetting the start of the idle time for accounting purposes to avoid double accounting. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082323.2d2f1945@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Introduce a function to update the idle statisticsArjan van de Ven1-10/+19
Currently, two places update the idle statistics (and more to come later in this series). This patch creates a helper function for updating these statistics. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082245.163e67ed@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us()Arjan van de Ven1-0/+14
The exported function get_cpu_idle_time_us() has no comment describing it; add a kerneldoc comment Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082208.7cb721f0@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11sched: Rate-limit nohzMike Galbraith1-0/+3
Entering nohz code on every micro-idle is costing ~10% throughput for netperf TCP_RR when scheduling cross-cpu. Rate limiting entry fixes this, but raises ticks a bit. On my Q6600, an idle box goes from ~85 interrupts/sec to 128. The higher the context switch rate, the more nohz entry costs. With this patch and some cycle recovery patches in my tree, max cross cpu context switch rate is improved by ~16%, a large portion of which of which is this ratelimiting. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268301003.6785.28.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-08Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-53/+88
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers, init: Limit the number of per cpu calibration bootup messages posix-cpu-timers: optimize and document timer_create callback clockevents: Add missing include to pacify sparse x86: vmiclock: Fix printk format x86: Fix printk format due to variable type change sparc: fix printk for change of variable type clocksource/events: Fix fallout of generic code changes nohz: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds nohz: Track last do_timer() cpu nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle nohz: Type cast printk argument mips: Use generic mult/shift factor calculation for clocks clocksource: Provide a generic mult/shift factor calculation clockevents: Use u32 for mult and shift factors nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpu nohz: Reuse ktime in sub-functions of tick_check_idle. time: Remove xtime_cache time: Implement logarithmic time accumulation
2009-11-13nohz: Track last do_timer() cpuThomas Gleixner1-24/+28
The previous patch which limits the sleep time to the maximum deferment time of the time keeping clocksource has some limitations on SMP machines: if all CPUs are idle then for all CPUs the maximum sleep time is limited. Solve this by keeping track of which cpu had the do_timer() duty assigned last and limit the sleep time only for this cpu. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
2009-11-13nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idleJon Hunter1-14/+38
The dynamic tick allows the kernel to sleep for periods longer than a single tick, but it does not limit the sleep time currently. In the worst case the kernel could sleep longer than the wrap around time of the time keeping clock source which would result in losing track of time. Prevent this by limiting it to the safe maximum sleep time of the current time keeping clock source. The value is calculated when the clock source is registered. [ tglx: simplified the code a bit and massaged the commit msg ] Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1250617512-23567-2-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-11-13nohz: Type cast printk argumentThomas Gleixner1-1/+1
On some archs local_softirq_pending() has a data type of unsigned long on others its unsigned int. Type cast it to (unsigned int) in the printk to avoid the compiler warning. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
2009-11-05nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpuMartin Schwidefsky1-5/+8
Allow the architecture to request a normal jiffy tick when the system goes idle and tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick is called . On s390 the hook is used to prevent the system going fully idle if there has been an interrupt other than a clock comparator interrupt since the last wakeup. On s390 the HiperSockets response time for 1 connection ping-pong goes down from 42 to 34 microseconds. The CPU cost decreases by 27%. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.402715150@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-11-05nohz: Reuse ktime in sub-functions of tick_check_idle.Martin Schwidefsky1-29/+33
On a system with NOHZ=y tick_check_idle calls tick_nohz_stop_idle and tick_nohz_update_jiffies. Given the right conditions (ts->idle_active and/or ts->tick_stopped) both function get a time stamp with ktime_get. The same time stamp can be reused if both function require one. On s390 this change has the additional benefit that gcc inlines the tick_nohz_stop_idle function into tick_check_idle. The number of instructions to execute tick_check_idle drops from 225 to 144 (without the ktime_get optimization it is 367 vs 215 instructions). before: 0) | tick_check_idle() { 0) | tick_nohz_stop_idle() { 0) | ktime_get() { 0) | read_tod_clock() { 0) 0.601 us | } 0) 1.765 us | } 0) 3.047 us | } 0) | ktime_get() { 0) | read_tod_clock() { 0) 0.570 us | } 0) 1.727 us | } 0) | tick_do_update_jiffies64() { 0) 0.609 us | } 0) 8.055 us | } after: 0) | tick_check_idle() { 0) | ktime_get() { 0) | read_tod_clock() { 0) 0.617 us | } 0) 1.773 us | } 0) | tick_do_update_jiffies64() { 0) 0.593 us | } 0) 4.477 us | } Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.206589318@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-10-07NOHZ: update idle state also when NOHZ is inactiveEero Nurkkala1-2/+7
Commit f2e21c9610991e95621a81407cdbab881226419b had unfortunate side effects with cpufreq governors on some systems. If the system did not switch into NOHZ mode ts->inidle is not set when tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() is called from the idle routine. Therefor all subsequent calls from irq_exit() to tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() fail to call tick_nohz_start_idle(). This results in bogus idle accounting information which is passed to cpufreq governors. Set the inidle flag unconditionally of the NOHZ active state to keep the idle time accounting correct in any case. [ tglx: Added comment and tweaked the changelog ] Reported-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> Signed-off-by: Eero Nurkkala <ext-eero.nurkkala@nokia.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <1254907901.30157.93.camel@eenurkka-desktop> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-06-20Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-3/+9
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: NOHZ: Properly feed cpufreq ondemand governor
2009-05-27NOHZ: Properly feed cpufreq ondemand governorEero Nurkkala1-3/+9
A call from irq_exit() may occasionally pause the timing info for cpufreq ondemand governor. This results in the cpufreq ondemand governor to fail to calculate the system load properly. Thus, relocate the checks for this particular case to keep the governor always functional. Signed-off-by: Eero Nurkkala <ext-eero.nurkkala@nokia.com> Reported-by: Tero Kristo <tero.kristo@nokia.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13timers: Identifying the existing pinned timersArun R Bharadwaj1-3/+4
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]: The following pinned hrtimers have been identified and marked: 1)sched_rt_period_timer 2)tick_sched_timer 3)stack_trace_timer_fn [ tglx: fixup the hrtimer pinned mode ] Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-01-15time-sched.c: tick_nohz_update_jiffies should be staticJaswinder Singh Rajput1-1/+1
Impact: cleanup, reduce kernel size a bit, avoid sparse warning Fixes sparse warning: kernel/time/tick-sched.c:137:6: warning: symbol 'tick_nohz_update_jiffies' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-03Merge branch 'cputime' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds1-6/+6
* 'cputime' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [PATCH] fast vdso implementation for CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID [PATCH] improve idle cputime accounting [PATCH] improve precision of idle time detection. [PATCH] improve precision of process accounting. [PATCH] idle cputime accounting [PATCH] fix scaled & unscaled cputime accounting
2009-01-02Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-5/+5
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits) x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2 x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0 sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask() x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many() x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c ... Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
2008-12-31[PATCH] idle cputime accountingMartin Schwidefsky1-7/+6
The cpu time spent by the idle process actually doing something is currently accounted as idle time. This is plain wrong, the architectures that support VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y can do better: distinguish between the time spent doing nothing and the time spent by idle doing work. The first is accounted with account_idle_time and the second with account_system_time. The architectures that use the account_xxx_time interface directly and not the account_xxx_ticks interface now need to do the check for the idle process in their arch code. In particular to improve the system vs true idle time accounting the arch code needs to measure the true idle time instead of just testing for the idle process. To improve the tick based accounting as well we would need an architecture primitive that can tell us if the pt_regs of the interrupted context points to the magic instruction that halts the cpu. In addition idle time is no more added to the stime of the idle process. This field now contains the system time of the idle process as it should be. On systems without VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING this will always be zero as every tick that occurs while idle is running will be accounted as idle time. This patch contains the necessary common code changes to be able to distinguish idle system time and true idle time. The architectures with support for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING need some changes to exploit this. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-12-31[PATCH] fix scaled & unscaled cputime accountingMartin Schwidefsky1-2/+3
The utimescaled / stimescaled fields in the task structure and the global cpustat should be set on all architectures. On s390 the calls to account_user_time_scaled and account_system_time_scaled never have been added. In addition system time that is accounted as guest time to the user time of a process is accounted to the scaled system time instead of the scaled user time. To fix the bugs and to prevent future forgetfulness this patch merges account_system_time_scaled into account_system_time and account_user_time_scaled into account_user_time. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-12-25Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hpet', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/rtc' into timers/coreIngo Molnar1-19/+25
2008-12-12nohz: suppress needless timer reprogrammingWoodruff, Richard1-17/+24
In my device I get many interrupts from a high speed USB device in a very short period of time. The system spends a lot of time reprogramming the hardware timer which is in a slower timing domain as compared to the CPU. This results in the CPU spending a huge amount of time waiting for the timer posting to be done. All of this reprogramming is useless as the wake up time has not changed. As measured using ETM trace this drops my reprogramming penalty from almost 60% CPU load down to 15% during high interrupt rate. I can send traces to show this. Suppress setting of duplicate timer event when timer already stopped. Timer programming can be very costly and can result in long cpu stall/wait times. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [tglx@linutronix.de: move the check to the right place and avoid raising the softirq for nothing] Signed-off-by: Richard Woodruff <r-woodruff2@ti.com> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-12-12nohz: no softirq pending warnings for offline cpusHeiko Carstens1-1/+1
Impact: remove false positive warning After a cpu was taken down during cpu hotplug (read: disabled for interrupts) it still might have pending softirqs. However take_cpu_down makes sure that the idle task will run next instead of ksoftirqd on the taken down cpu. The idle task will call tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick which might warn about pending softirqs just before the cpu kills itself completely. However the pending softirqs on the dead cpu aren't a problem because they will be moved to an online cpu during CPU_DEAD handling. So make sure we warn only for online cpus. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>