From a831881be220358a1d28c5d95d69449fb6d623ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:32:19 +0100 Subject: nohz: Basic full dynticks interface For extreme usecases such as Real Time or HPC, having the ability to shutdown the tick when a single task runs on a CPU is a desired feature: * Reducing the amount of interrupts improves throughput for CPU-bound tasks. The CPU is less distracted from its real job, from an execution time and from the cache point of views. * This also improve latency response as we have less critical sections. Start with introducing a very simple interface to define full dynticks CPU: use a boot time option defined cpumask through the "nohz_extended=" kernel parameter. CPUs that are part of this range will have their tick shutdown whenever possible: provided they run a single task and they don't do kernel activity that require the periodic tick. These details will be later documented in Documentation/* An online CPU must be kept outside this range to handle the timekeeping. Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef Cc: Hakan Akkan Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Li Zhong Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-sched.c') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index a19a39952c1..79c275f08b7 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -142,6 +142,68 @@ static void tick_sched_handle(struct tick_sched *ts, struct pt_regs *regs) profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING); } +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED +static cpumask_var_t nohz_extended_mask; +bool have_nohz_extended_mask; + +int tick_nohz_extended_cpu(int cpu) +{ + if (!have_nohz_extended_mask) + return 0; + + return cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, nohz_extended_mask); +} + +/* Parse the boot-time nohz CPU list from the kernel parameters. */ +static int __init tick_nohz_extended_setup(char *str) +{ + alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&nohz_extended_mask); + if (cpulist_parse(str, nohz_extended_mask) < 0) + pr_warning("NOHZ: Incorrect nohz_extended cpumask\n"); + else + have_nohz_extended_mask = true; + return 1; +} +__setup("nohz_extended=", tick_nohz_extended_setup); + +static int __init init_tick_nohz_extended(void) +{ + cpumask_var_t online_nohz; + int cpu; + + if (!have_nohz_extended_mask) + return 0; + + if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&online_nohz, GFP_KERNEL)) { + pr_warning("NO_HZ: Not enough memory to check extended nohz mask\n"); + return -ENOMEM; + } + + /* + * CPUs can probably not be concurrently offlined on initcall time. + * But we are paranoid, aren't we? + */ + get_online_cpus(); + + /* Ensure we keep a CPU outside the dynticks range for timekeeping */ + cpumask_and(online_nohz, cpu_online_mask, nohz_extended_mask); + if (cpumask_equal(online_nohz, cpu_online_mask)) { + cpu = cpumask_any(cpu_online_mask); + pr_warning("NO_HZ: Must keep at least one online CPU " + "out of nohz_extended range\n"); + pr_warning("NO_HZ: Clearing %d from nohz_extended range\n", cpu); + cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, nohz_extended_mask); + } + put_online_cpus(); + free_cpumask_var(online_nohz); + + return 0; +} +core_initcall(init_tick_nohz_extended); +#else +#define have_nohz_extended_mask (0) +#endif + /* * NOHZ - aka dynamic tick functionality */ -- cgit v1.2.3