linux/kernel
Jason Low c8d75aa47d posix_cpu_timer: Reduce unnecessary sighand lock contention
It was found while running a database workload on large systems that
significant time was spent trying to acquire the sighand lock.

The issue was that whenever an itimer expired, many threads ended up
simultaneously trying to send the signal. Most of the time, nothing
happened after acquiring the sighand lock because another thread
had just already sent the signal and updated the "next expire" time.
The fastpath_timer_check() didn't help much since the "next expire"
time was updated after the threads exit fastpath_timer_check().

This patch addresses this by having the thread_group_cputimer structure
maintain a boolean to signify when a thread in the group is already
checking for process wide timers, and adds extra logic in the fastpath
to check the boolean.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: hideaki.kimura@hpe.com
Cc: terry.rudd@hpe.com
Cc: scott.norton@hpe.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444849677-29330-5-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-10-15 11:23:41 +02:00
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bpf bpf: fix out of bounds access in verifier log 2015-09-09 14:11:55 -07:00
configs kconfig: add xenconfig defconfig helper 2015-06-16 11:04:29 +01:00
debug debug: prevent entering debug mode on panic/exception. 2015-02-19 12:39:03 -06:00
events perf: Fix races in computing the header sizes 2015-09-18 09:20:26 +02:00
gcov gcov: add support for GCC 5.1 2015-06-30 19:44:57 -07:00
irq genirq: Fix handle_bad_irq kerneldoc comment 2015-10-09 17:17:30 +02:00
livepatch livepatch: Improve error handling in klp_disable_func() 2015-07-14 22:48:06 +02:00
locking locking/lockdep: Fix hlock->pin_count reset on lock stack rebuilds 2015-09-23 09:48:53 +02:00
power Merge branch 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-09-02 13:10:25 -07:00
printk kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
rcu rcu: Suppress lockdep false positive for rcp->exp_funnel_mutex 2015-09-20 21:01:22 -07:00
sched sched/core: Fix TASK_DEAD race in finish_task_switch() 2015-10-06 17:05:17 +02:00
time posix_cpu_timer: Reduce unnecessary sighand lock contention 2015-10-15 11:23:41 +02:00
trace Mostly this is just clean ups and micro optimizations. 2015-09-08 14:04:14 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks locking/qrwlock: Rename QUEUE_RWLOCK to QUEUED_RWLOCKS 2015-05-12 09:46:00 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
Makefile sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86) 2015-09-11 15:21:34 -07:00
acct.c acct: check FMODE_CAN_WRITE 2015-04-11 22:27:55 -04:00
async.c kernel/async.c: switch to pr_foo() 2014-10-09 22:26:04 -04:00
audit.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2015-09-08 13:34:59 -07:00
audit.h Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2015-09-08 13:34:59 -07:00
audit_fsnotify.c audit: clean simple fsnotify implementation 2015-08-06 16:14:53 -04:00
audit_tree.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2015-09-08 13:34:59 -07:00
audit_watch.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2015-09-08 13:34:59 -07:00
auditfilter.c audit: implement audit by executable 2015-08-06 16:17:25 -04:00
auditsc.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2015-09-08 13:34:59 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c page-cgroup: get rid of NR_PCG_FLAGS 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
capability.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
cgroup.c Revert "sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem" 2015-09-16 11:51:12 -04:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: allow a cgroup subsystem to reject a fork 2015-07-14 17:29:23 -04:00
cgroup_pids.c cgroup: pids: fix invalid get/put usage 2015-08-25 14:19:25 -04:00
compat.c compat: cleanup coding in compat_get_bitmap() and compat_put_bitmap() 2015-06-04 23:57:18 +02:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Inherit TIF_NOHZ through forks instead of context switches 2015-05-07 12:02:51 +02:00
cpu.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-08-31 20:26:22 -07:00
cpu_pm.c kernel/cpu_pm: fix cpu_cluster_pm_exit comment 2015-09-03 02:42:20 +02:00
cpuset.c cpuset: use trialcs->mems_allowed as a temp variable 2015-08-10 11:18:41 -04:00
crash_dump.c crash_dump: Make is_kdump_kernel() accessible from modules 2014-08-25 15:42:19 -07:00
cred.c kernel/cred.c: remove unnecessary kdebug atomic reads 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
delayacct.c delayacct: Remove braindamaged type conversions 2014-07-23 10:18:06 -07:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c Remove rest of exec domains. 2015-04-12 21:03:31 +02:00
exit.c kernel: exit: fix typo in comment 2015-08-07 13:59:49 +02:00
extable.c kernel/extable.c: remove duplicated include 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
fork.c posix_cpu_timer: Convert cputimer->running to bool 2015-10-15 11:23:41 +02:00
freezer.c freezer: remove obsolete comments in __thaw_task() 2014-10-21 23:44:20 +02:00
futex.c futex: Make should_fail_futex() static 2015-07-20 21:43:54 +02:00
futex_compat.c
groups.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: change hung_task.c to use for_each_process_thread() 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
irq_work.c percpu: Convert remaining __get_cpu_var uses in 3.18-rcX 2014-10-29 11:18:18 -04:00
jump_label.c locking/static_keys: Add selftest 2015-08-03 11:34:16 +02:00
kallsyms.c kernel/kallsyms.c: use __seq_open_private() 2014-10-14 02:18:16 +02:00
kcmp.c kcmp: fix standard comparison bug 2014-09-10 15:42:12 -07:00
kexec.c kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
kexec_core.c kexec: export KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE to vmcoreinfo 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
kexec_file.c kexec: split kexec_file syscall code to kexec_file.c 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
kexec_internal.h kexec: split kexec_file syscall code to kexec_file.c 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
kmod.c kmod: handle UMH_WAIT_PROC from system unbound workqueue 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
kprobes.c perf/x86/hw_breakpoints: Disallow kernel breakpoints unless kprobe-safe 2015-08-04 10:16:54 +02:00
ksysfs.c kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
kthread.c kernel/kthread.c:kthread_create_on_node(): clarify documentation 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
latencytop.c
membarrier.c sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86) 2015-09-11 15:21:34 -07:00
memremap.c add devm_memremap_pages 2015-08-27 19:40:58 -04:00
module-internal.h
module.c module: weaken locking assertion for oops path. 2015-07-29 06:13:22 +09:30
module_signing.c PKCS#7: Appropriately restrict authenticated attributes and content type 2015-08-12 17:01:01 +01:00
notifier.c Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-09-01 08:40:25 -07:00
nsproxy.c bury struct proc_ns in fs/proc 2014-12-04 14:34:54 -05:00
padata.c padata: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks 2015-02-13 21:21:38 -08:00
panic.c kernel/panic/kexec: fix "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option issue in oops path 2015-06-30 19:44:57 -07:00
params.c Minor merge needed, due to function move. 2015-07-01 10:49:25 -07:00
pid.c rcu: Rename rcu_lockdep_assert() to RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() 2015-07-22 15:27:32 -07:00
pid_namespace.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-12-16 15:53:03 -08:00
profile.c mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
ptrace.c seccomp: add ptrace options for suspend/resume 2015-07-15 11:52:52 -07:00
range.c kernel: avoid overflow in cmp_range 2015-01-17 10:02:23 +13:00
reboot.c kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
relay.c kernel/relay.c: use kvfree() in relay_free_page_array() 2015-06-30 19:44:59 -07:00
resource.c mm: enhance region_is_ram() to region_intersects() 2015-08-10 23:07:05 -04:00
seccomp.c Merge tag 'seccomp-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux into next 2015-07-20 17:19:19 +10:00
signal.c signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_to_user 2015-08-07 04:39:40 +03:00
smp.c smp: Fix error case handling in smp_call_function_*() 2015-04-19 13:19:23 -07:00
smpboot.c smpboot: allow passing the cpumask on per-cpu thread registration 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-09 15:24:03 -08:00
stacktrace.c stacktrace: introduce snprint_stack_trace for buffer output 2014-12-13 12:42:48 -08:00
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Remove cpu_stop_work's from list in cpu_stop_park() 2015-08-03 12:21:28 +02:00
sys.c vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs. 2015-07-10 10:39:25 -05:00
sys_ni.c sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86) 2015-09-11 15:21:34 -07:00
sysctl.c sysctl: fix int -> unsigned long assignments in INT_MIN case 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel: add panic_on_warn 2014-12-10 17:41:10 -08:00
task_work.c task_work: remove fifo ordering guarantee 2015-09-05 13:46:58 -07:00
taskstats.c netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void 2015-01-18 01:03:45 -05:00
test_kprobes.c kernel/test_kprobes.c: use current logging functions 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
torture.c rcu: Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() 2015-05-27 12:56:15 -07:00
tracepoint.c tracing: syscall_regfunc() should not skip kernel threads 2014-06-21 00:15:26 -04:00
tsacct.c sched: Make task->start_time nanoseconds based 2014-07-23 10:18:05 -07:00
uid16.c groups: Consolidate the setgroups permission checks 2014-12-05 17:19:27 -06:00
up.c
user-return-notifier.c scheduler: Replace __get_cpu_var with this_cpu_ptr 2014-08-26 13:45:45 -04:00
user.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2014-12-17 12:31:40 -08:00
user_namespace.c capabilities: ambient capabilities 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
utsname.c copy address of proc_ns_ops into ns_common 2014-12-04 14:34:47 -05:00
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c watchdog: rename watchdog_suspend() and watchdog_resume() 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2015-09-02 08:02:20 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h