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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 08/11] nohz,timer: have housekeeper call account_process_tick for nohz cpus
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2015-06-24 17:57 GMT+03:00  <riel@redhat.com>:
> From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
>
> Have the housekeeper CPU call account_process_tick to do tick based
> accounting for remote nohz_full CPUs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> ---
> kernel/time/timer.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
> index 2ece3aa5069c..6adebb373317 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/timer.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
> #include <linux/sched/sysctl.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/compat.h>
> +#include "../sched/sched.h"
>
> #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> #include <asm/unistd.h>
> @@ -1382,6 +1383,29 @@ unsigned long get_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long now)
> }
> #endif
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
> +static void account_remote_process_ticks(void)
> +{
> + int cpu;
> +
> + /*
> + * The current task on another CPU can get rescheduled while
> + * we are updating the statistics. The rcu read lock ensures
> + * the task does not get freed, so at worst the statistics will
> + * be off a little bit, which is expected with tick based sampling.
> + */
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + for_each_cpu_and(cpu, tick_nohz_full_mask, cpu_online_mask) {
> + struct task_struct *p = cpu_curr(cpu);
> + int user_tick = (per_cpu(context_tracking.state, cpu) ==
> + CONTEXT_USER);
> +
> + account_process_tick(p, user_tick);
> + }
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> /*
> * Called from the timer interrupt handler to charge one tick to the current
> * process. user_tick is 1 if the tick is user time, 0 for system.
> @@ -1392,6 +1416,10 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick)
>
> /* Note: this timer irq context must be accounted for as well. */
> account_process_tick(p, user_tick);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
> + if (is_timer_housekeeping_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
> + account_remote_process_ticks();
> +#endif

I like the idea overall. I just think that it should be done from a
process rather than an IRQ because the amount of CPUs to walk can be
high.

Perhaps a kthread? Or workqueue since we can now affine the unbound
ones to housekeepers.

Thanks.

> run_local_timers();
> rcu_check_callbacks(user_tick);
> #ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
> --
> 2.1.0
>
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