From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:56:45 +0200
Subject: timer: delay waking softirqs from the jiffy tick
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git
Git-commit: 62d3a0ab1c6df21d85d9db74ac70c9bfdb355060
Patch-mainline: Queued in subsystem maintainer repository
References: SLE Realtime Extension
People were complaining about broken balancing with the recent -rt
series.
A look at /proc/sched_debug yielded:
cpu#0, 2393.874 MHz
.nr_running : 0
.load : 0
.cpu_load[0] : 177522
.cpu_load[1] : 177522
.cpu_load[2] : 177522
.cpu_load[3] : 177522
.cpu_load[4] : 177522
cpu#1, 2393.874 MHz
.nr_running : 4
.load : 4096
.cpu_load[0] : 181618
.cpu_load[1] : 180850
.cpu_load[2] : 180274
.cpu_load[3] : 179938
.cpu_load[4] : 179758
Which indicated the cpu_load computation was hosed, the 177522 value
indicates that there is one RT task runnable. Initially I thought the
old problem of calculating the cpu_load from a softirq had re-surfaced,
however looking at the code shows its being done from scheduler_tick().
[ we really should fix this RT/cfs interaction some day... ]
A few trace_printk()s later:
sirq-timer/1-19 [001] 174.289744: 19: 50:S ==> [001] 0:140:R <idle>
<idle>-0 [001] 174.290724: enqueue_task_rt: adding task: 19/sirq-timer/1 with load: 177522
<idle>-0 [001] 174.290725: 0:140:R + [001] 19: 50:S sirq-timer/1
<idle>-0 [001] 174.290730: scheduler_tick: current load: 177522
<idle>-0 [001] 174.290732: scheduler_tick: current: 0/swapper
<idle>-0 [001] 174.290736: 0:140:R ==> [001] 19: 50:R sirq-timer/1
sirq-timer/1-19 [001] 174.290741: dequeue_task_rt: removing task: 19/sirq-timer/1 with load: 177522
sirq-timer/1-19 [001] 174.290743: 19: 50:S ==> [001] 0:140:R <idle>
We see that we always raise the timer softirq before doing the load
calculation. Avoid this by re-ordering the scheduler_tick() call in
update_process_times() to occur before we deal with timers.
This lowers the load back to sanity and restores regular load-balancing
behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
---
kernel/time/timer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1650,13 +1650,13 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick)
/* Note: this timer irq context must be accounted for as well. */
account_process_tick(p, user_tick);
+ scheduler_tick();
run_local_timers();
rcu_check_callbacks(user_tick);
#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
if (in_irq())
irq_work_tick();
#endif
- scheduler_tick();
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS))
run_posix_cpu_timers(p);