From 39c0cbe2150cbd848a25ba6cdb271d1ad46818ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Galbraith Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:17:13 +0100 Subject: sched: Rate-limit nohz Entering nohz code on every micro-idle is costing ~10% throughput for netperf TCP_RR when scheduling cross-cpu. Rate limiting entry fixes this, but raises ticks a bit. On my Q6600, an idle box goes from ~85 interrupts/sec to 128. The higher the context switch rate, the more nohz entry costs. With this patch and some cycle recovery patches in my tree, max cross cpu context switch rate is improved by ~16%, a large portion of which of which is this ratelimiting. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1268301003.6785.28.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-sched.c') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index f992762d7f51..f25735a767af 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -262,6 +262,9 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle) goto end; } + if (nohz_ratelimit(cpu)) + goto end; + ts->idle_calls++; /* Read jiffies and the time when jiffies were updated last */ do { -- cgit v1.2.1