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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2014-06-04 10:31:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-06-05 12:09:53 +0200 |
| commit | e3baac47f0e82c4be632f4f97215bb93bf16b342 (patch) | |
| tree | cae0a8012654966d9c295f517661c77b2dab2f95 /kernel/sched/idle.c | |
| parent | 67b9ca70c3030e832999e8d1cdba2984c7bb5bfc (diff) | |
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sched/idle: Optimize try-to-wake-up IPI
[ This series reduces the number of IPIs on Andy's workload by something like
99%. It's down from many hundreds per second to very few.
The basic idea behind this series is to make TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG be a
reliable indication that the idle task is polling. Once that's done,
the rest is reasonably straightforward. ]
When enqueueing tasks on remote LLC domains, we send an IPI to do the
work 'locally' and avoid bouncing all the cachelines over.
However, when the remote CPU is idle (and polling, say x86 mwait), we
don't need to send an IPI, we can simply kick the TIF word to wake it
up and have the 'idle' loop do the work.
So when _TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is set, but _TIF_NEED_RESCHED is not (yet)
set, set _TIF_NEED_RESCHED and avoid sending the IPI.
Much-requested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[Edited by Andy Lutomirski, but this is mostly Peter Zijlstra's code.]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ce06f8b02e7e337be63e97597fc4b248d3aa6f9b.1401902905.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/idle.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/idle.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/idle.c b/kernel/sched/idle.c index fe4b24bf33ca..cf009fb0bc25 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/idle.c +++ b/kernel/sched/idle.c @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ #include <trace/events/power.h> +#include "sched.h" + static int __read_mostly cpu_idle_force_poll; void cpu_idle_poll_ctrl(bool enable) @@ -237,12 +239,14 @@ static void cpu_idle_loop(void) __current_clr_polling(); /* - * We promise to reschedule if need_resched is set while - * polling is set. That means that clearing polling - * needs to be visible before rescheduling. + * We promise to call sched_ttwu_pending and reschedule + * if need_resched is set while polling is set. That + * means that clearing polling needs to be visible + * before doing these things. */ smp_mb__after_atomic(); + sched_ttwu_pending(); schedule_preempt_disabled(); } } |
