rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
Binding the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU resulted in
significant performance decreases for some workloads. For more detail,
see:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/3/395 for benchmark numbers
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/218 for CPU statistics
It turns out that it is necessary to bind the grace-period kthreads
to the timekeeping CPU only when all but CPU 0 is a nohz_full CPU
on the one hand or if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y on the other.
In other cases, it suffices to bind the grace-period kthreads to the
set of non-nohz_full CPUs.
This commit therefore creates a tick_nohz_not_full_mask that is the
complement of tick_nohz_full_mask, and then binds the grace-period
kthread to the set of CPUs indicated by this new mask, which covers
the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n case. The CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y
case still binds the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU.
This commit also includes the tick_nohz_full_enabled() check suggested
by Frederic Weisbecker.
Reported-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Created housekeeping_affine() and housekeeping_mask per
fweisbec feedback. ]
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 719587a..b39ba72 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -2846,12 +2846,16 @@
*/
static void rcu_bind_gp_kthread(void)
{
-#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
- int cpu = tick_do_timer_cpu;
+ int __maybe_unused cpu;
- if (cpu < 0 || cpu >= nr_cpu_ids)
+ if (!tick_nohz_full_enabled())
return;
- if (raw_smp_processor_id() != cpu)
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE
+ cpu = tick_do_timer_cpu;
+ if (cpu >= 0 && cpu < nr_cpu_ids && raw_smp_processor_id() != cpu)
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(cpu));
-#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL */
+#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE */
+ if (!is_housekeeping_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id()))
+ housekeeping_affine(current);
+#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE */
}