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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:24:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] sched: Disable TTWU_QUEUE on RT

References: bsc#1189998 (PREEMPT_RT prerequisite backports)
Patch-mainline: v5.16-rc1
Git-commit: 539fbb5be0da56ffa1434b4f56521a0522bd1d61

The queued remote wakeup mechanism has turned out to be suboptimal for RT
enabled kernels. The maximum latencies go up by a factor of > 5x in certain
scenarious.

This is caused by either long wake lists or by a large number of TTWU IPIs
which are processed back to back.

Disable it for RT.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210928122411.482262764@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
---
 kernel/sched/features.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h
index 7f8dace0964c..1cf435bbcd9c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/features.h
@@ -46,11 +46,16 @@ SCHED_FEAT(DOUBLE_TICK, false)
  */
 SCHED_FEAT(NONTASK_CAPACITY, true)
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+SCHED_FEAT(TTWU_QUEUE, false)
+#else
+
 /*
  * Queue remote wakeups on the target CPU and process them
  * using the scheduler IPI. Reduces rq->lock contention/bounces.
  */
 SCHED_FEAT(TTWU_QUEUE, true)
+#endif
 
 /*
  * When doing wakeups, attempt to limit superfluous scans of the LLC domain.