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author | Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> | 2010-02-02 14:46:13 -0800 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-02-08 08:57:37 +0100 |
commit | fa535a77bd3fa32b9215ba375d6a202fe73e1dd6 (patch) | |
tree | a82c7c10a3a6eaf19e873863c98a0d5c83fd965e /kernel/kthread.c | |
parent | 0c9cf2efd74dbc90354e2ccc7dbd6bad68ec6c4d (diff) | |
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sched: cpuacct: Use bigger percpu counter batch values for stats counters
When CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT are
enabled we can call cpuacct_update_stats with values much larger
than percpu_counter_batch. This means the call to
percpu_counter_add will always add to the global count which is
protected by a spinlock and we end up with a global spinlock in
the scheduler.
Based on an idea by KOSAKI Motohiro, this patch scales the batch
value by cputime_one_jiffy such that we have the same batch
limit as we would if CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING was disabled.
His patch did this once at boot but that initialisation happened
too early on PowerPC (before time_init) and it was never updated
at runtime as a result of a hotplug cpu add/remove.
This patch instead scales percpu_counter_batch by
cputime_one_jiffy at runtime, which keeps the batch correct even
after cpu hotplug operations. We cap it at INT_MAX in case of
overflow.
For architectures that do not support
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING, cputime_one_jiffy is the constant 1
and gcc is smart enough to optimise min(s32
percpu_counter_batch, INT_MAX) to just percpu_counter_batch at
least on x86 and PowerPC. So there is no need to add an #ifdef.
On a 64 thread PowerPC box with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING and
CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT enabled, a context switch microbenchmark
is 234x faster and almost matches a CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT
disabled kernel:
CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT disabled: 16906698 ctx switches/sec
CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT enabled: 61720 ctx switches/sec
CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT + patch: 16663217 ctx switches/sec
Tested with:
wget http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch.c
make context_switch
for i in `seq 0 63`; do taskset -c $i ./context_switch & done
vmstat 1
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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