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john stultz b2d9323d13 Use num_possible_cpus() instead of NR_CPUS for timer distribution
To avoid lock contention, we distribute the sched_timer calls across the
cpus so they do not trigger at the same instant.  However, I used NR_CPUS,
which can cause needless grouping on small smp systems depending on your
kernel config.  This patch converts to using num_possible_cpus() so we
spread it as evenly as possible on every machine.

Briefly tested w/ NR_CPUS=255 and verified reduced contention.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 5e41d0d60a clockevents: prevent stale tick update on offline cpu
Taking a cpu offline removes the cpu from the online mask before the
CPU_DEAD notification is done. The clock events layer does the cleanup
of the dead CPU from the CPU_DEAD notifier chain. tick_do_timer_cpu is
used to avoid xtime lock contention by assigning the task of jiffies
xtime updates to one CPU. If a CPU is taken offline, then this
assignment becomes stale. This went unnoticed because most of the time
the offline CPU went dead before the online CPU reached __cpu_die(),
where the CPU_DEAD state is checked. In the case that the offline CPU did
not reach the DEAD state before we reach __cpu_die(), the code in there
goes to sleep for 100ms. Due to the stale time update assignment, the
system is stuck forever.

Take the assignment away when a cpu is not longer in the cpu_online_mask.
We do this in the last call to tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() when the offline
CPU is on the way to the final play_dead() idle entry.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-09-16 15:36:43 +02:00
john stultz 3704540b48 tick management: spread timer interrupt
After discussing w/ Thomas over IRC, it seems the issue is the sched tick
fires on every cpu at the same time, causing extra lock contention.

This smaller change, adds an extra offset per cpu so the ticks don't line up.
This patch also drops the idle latency from 40us down to under 20us.

Signed-off-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21 17:49:15 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner eaad084bb0 NOHZ: prevent multiplication overflow - stop timer for huge timeouts
get_next_timer_interrupt() returns a delta of (LONG_MAX > 1) in case
there is no timer pending. On 64 bit machines this results in a
multiplication overflow in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick().

Reported by: Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Make the return value a constant and limit the return value to a 32 bit
value.

When the max timeout value is returned, we can safely stop the tick
timer device. The max jiffies delta results in a 12 days timeout for
HZ=1000.

In the long term the get_next_timer_interrupt() code needs to be
reworked to return ktime instead of jiffies, but we have to wait until
the last users of the original NO_IDLE_HZ code are converted.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-29 18:11:10 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 3528231606 NOHZ: Rate limit the local softirq pending warning output
The warning in the NOHZ code, which triggers when a CPU goes idle with
softirqs pending can fill up the logs quite quickly.  Rate limit the output
until we found the root cause of that problem.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:11 -07:00
Siddha, Suresh B 46cb4b7c88 sched: dynticks idle load balancing
Fix the process idle load balancing in the presence of dynticks.  cpus for
which ticks are stopped will sleep till the next event wakes it up.
Potentially these sleeps can be for large durations and during which today,
there is no periodic idle load balancing being done.

This patch nominates an owner among the idle cpus, which does the idle load
balancing on behalf of the other idle cpus.  And once all the cpus are
completely idle, then we can stop this idle load balancing too.  Checks added
in fast path are minimized.  Whenever there are busy cpus in the system, there
will be an owner(idle cpu) doing the system wide idle load balancing.

Open items:
1. Intelligent owner selection (like an idle core in a busy package).
2. Merge with rcu's nohz_cpu_mask?

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:17 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner d3ed782458 highres/dyntick: prevent xtime lock contention
While the !highres/!dyntick code assigns the duty of the do_timer() call to
one specific CPU, this was dropped in the highres/dyntick part during
development.

Steven Rostedt discovered the xtime lock contention on highres/dyntick due
to several CPUs trying to update jiffies.

Add the single CPU assignement back.  In the dyntick case this needs to be
handled carefully, as the CPU which has the do_timer() duty must drop the
assignement and let it be grabbed by another CPU, which is active.
Otherwise the do_timer() calls would not happen during the long sleep.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:10 -07:00
David S. Miller 9e203bcc10 [TIME] tick-sched: Add missing asm/irq_regs.h include.
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-26 11:13:49 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner bc5393a6c9 [PATCH] NOHZ: Produce debug output instead of a BUG()
The BUG_ON() in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() triggers on some boxen.
Remove the BUG_ON and print information about the pending softirq
to allow better debugging of the problem.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-19 14:18:43 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 6ba9b346e1 [PATCH] NOHZ: Fix RCU handling
When a CPU is needed for RCU the tick has to continue even when it was
stopped before.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-19 14:18:43 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 289f480af8 [PATCH] Add debugging feature /proc/timer_list
add /proc/timer_list, which prints all currently pending (high-res) timers,
all clock-event sources and their parameters in a human-readable form.

Sample output:

Timer List Version: v0.1
HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES: 2
now at 4246046273872 nsecs

cpu: 0
 clock 0:
  .index:      0
  .resolution: 1 nsecs
  .get_time:   ktime_get_real
  .offset:     1273998312645738432 nsecs
active timers:
 clock 1:
  .index:      1
  .resolution: 1 nsecs
  .get_time:   ktime_get
  .offset:     0 nsecs
active timers:
 #0: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_sched_tick, hrtimer_stop_sched_tick, swapper/0
 # expires at 4246432689566 nsecs [in 386415694 nsecs]
 #1: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, pcscd/2050
 # expires at 4247018194689 nsecs [in 971920817 nsecs]
 #2: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, irqbalance/1909
 # expires at 4247351358392 nsecs [in 1305084520 nsecs]
 #3: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, crond/2157
 # expires at 4249097614968 nsecs [in 3051341096 nsecs]
 #4: <f5a90ec8>, it_real_fn, do_setitimer, syslogd/1888
 # expires at 4251329900926 nsecs [in 5283627054 nsecs]
  .expires_next   : 4246432689566 nsecs
  .hres_active    : 1
  .check_clocks   : 0
  .nr_events      : 31306
  .idle_tick      : 4246020791890 nsecs
  .tick_stopped   : 1
  .idle_jiffies   : 986504
  .idle_calls     : 40700
  .idle_sleeps    : 36014
  .idle_entrytime : 4246019418883 nsecs
  .idle_sleeptime : 4178181972709 nsecs

cpu: 1
 clock 0:
  .index:      0
  .resolution: 1 nsecs
  .get_time:   ktime_get_real
  .offset:     1273998312645738432 nsecs
active timers:
 clock 1:
  .index:      1
  .resolution: 1 nsecs
  .get_time:   ktime_get
  .offset:     0 nsecs
active timers:
 #0: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_sched_tick, hrtimer_restart_sched_tick, swapper/0
 # expires at 4246050084568 nsecs [in 3810696 nsecs]
 #1: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, atd/2227
 # expires at 4261010635003 nsecs [in 14964361131 nsecs]
 #2: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, smartd/2332
 # expires at 5469485798970 nsecs [in 1223439525098 nsecs]
  .expires_next   : 4246050084568 nsecs
  .hres_active    : 1
  .check_clocks   : 0
  .nr_events      : 24043
  .idle_tick      : 4246046084568 nsecs
  .tick_stopped   : 0
  .idle_jiffies   : 986510
  .idle_calls     : 26360
  .idle_sleeps    : 22551
  .idle_entrytime : 4246043874339 nsecs
  .idle_sleeptime : 4170763761184 nsecs

tick_broadcast_mask: 00000003
event_broadcast_mask: 00000001

CPU#0's local event device:

Clock Event Device: lapic
 capabilities:   0000000e
 max_delta_ns:   807385544
 min_delta_ns:   1443
 mult:           44624025
 shift:          32
 set_next_event: lapic_next_event
 set_mode:       lapic_timer_setup
 event_handler:  hrtimer_interrupt
  .installed:  1
  .expires:    4246432689566 nsecs

CPU#1's local event device:

Clock Event Device: lapic
 capabilities:   0000000e
 max_delta_ns:   807385544
 min_delta_ns:   1443
 mult:           44624025
 shift:          32
 set_next_event: lapic_next_event
 set_mode:       lapic_timer_setup
 event_handler:  hrtimer_interrupt
  .installed:  1
  .expires:    4246050084568 nsecs

Clock Event Device: hpet
 capabilities:   00000007
 max_delta_ns:   2147483647
 min_delta_ns:   3352
 mult:           61496110
 shift:          32
 set_next_event: hpet_next_event
 set_mode:       hpet_set_mode
 event_handler:  handle_nextevt_broadcast

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner 79bf2bb335 [PATCH] tick-management: dyntick / highres functionality
With Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add functions to provide dynamic ticks and high resolution timers.  The code
which keeps track of jiffies and handles the long idle periods is shared
between tick based and high resolution timer based dynticks.  The dyntick
functionality can be disabled on the kernel commandline.  Provide also the
infrastructure to support high resolution timers.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00