From 8a0be9ef8225638d26b455788f988c8f84ce9e75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 01:27:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domain Impact: fix function graph trace hang / drop pointless softirq on UP While debugging a function graph trace hang on an old PII, I saw that it consumed most of its time on the timer interrupt. And the domain rebalancing softirq was the most concerned. The timer interrupt calls trigger_load_balance() which will decide if it is worth to schedule a rebalancing softirq. In case of builtin UP kernel, no problem arises because there is no domain question. In case of builtin SMP kernel running on an SMP box, still no problem, the softirq will be raised each time we reach the next_balance time. In case of builtin SMP kernel running on a UP box (most distros provide default SMP kernels, whatever the box you have), then the CPU is attached to the NULL sched domain. So a kind of unexpected behaviour happen: trigger_load_balance() -> raises the rebalancing softirq later on softirq: run_rebalance_domains() -> rebalance_domains() where the for_each_domain(cpu, sd) is not taken because of the NULL domain we are attached at. Which means rq->next_balance is never updated. So on the next timer tick, we will enter trigger_load_balance() which will always reschedule() the rebalacing softirq: if (time_after_eq(jiffies, rq->next_balance)) raise_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ); So for each tick, we process this pointless softirq. This patch fixes it by checking if we are attached to the null domain before raising the softirq, another possible fix would be to set the maximal possible JIFFIES value to rq->next_balance if we are attached to the NULL domain. v2: build fix on UP Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <49af242d.1c07d00a.32d5.ffffc019@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index dfae1bf6d5b2..e509dbd7d77f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -4148,6 +4148,11 @@ static void run_rebalance_domains(struct softirq_action *h) #endif } +static inline int on_null_domain(int cpu) +{ + return !rcu_dereference(cpu_rq(cpu)->sd); +} + /* * Trigger the SCHED_SOFTIRQ if it is time to do periodic load balancing. * @@ -4205,7 +4210,9 @@ static inline void trigger_load_balance(struct rq *rq, int cpu) cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, nohz.cpu_mask)) return; #endif - if (time_after_eq(jiffies, rq->next_balance)) + /* Don't need to rebalance while attached to NULL domain */ + if (time_after_eq(jiffies, rq->next_balance) && + likely(!on_null_domain(cpu))) raise_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ); } -- 2.20.1