From bc7a34b8b9ebfb0f4b8a35a72a0b134fd6c5ef50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 22:50:33 +0000 Subject: timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled Eric reported that the timer_migration sysctl is not really nice performance wise as it needs to check at every timer insertion whether the feature is enabled or not. Further the check does not live in the timer code, so we have an extra function call which checks an extra cache line to figure out that it is disabled. We can do better and store that information in the per cpu (hr)timer bases. I pondered to use a static key, but that's a nightmare to update from the nohz code and the timer base cache line is hot anyway when we select a timer base. The old logic enabled the timer migration unconditionally if CONFIG_NO_HZ was set even if nohz was disabled on the kernel command line. With this modification, we start off with migration disabled. The user visible sysctl is still set to enabled. If the kernel switches to NOHZ migration is enabled, if the user did not disable it via the sysctl prior to the switch. If nohz=off is on the kernel command line, migration stays disabled no matter what. Before: 47.76% hog [.] main 14.84% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 9.55% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore 6.71% [kernel] [k] mod_timer 6.24% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38 3.76% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending 3.71% [kernel] [k] del_timer 2.50% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer 1.51% [kernel] [k] get_nohz_timer_target 1.28% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer 0.78% [kernel] [k] timerfn 0.48% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu After: 48.10% hog [.] main 15.25% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 9.76% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore 6.50% [kernel] [k] mod_timer 6.44% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38 3.87% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending 3.80% [kernel] [k] del_timer 2.67% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer 1.33% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer 0.73% [kernel] [k] timerfn 0.54% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu Reported-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: John Stultz Cc: Joonwoo Park Cc: Wenbo Wang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.127050787@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- include/linux/sched.h | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 26a2e61..d715146 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -335,14 +335,10 @@ extern int runqueue_is_locked(int cpu); #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON) extern void nohz_balance_enter_idle(int cpu); extern void set_cpu_sd_state_idle(void); -extern int get_nohz_timer_target(int pinned); +extern int get_nohz_timer_target(void); #else static inline void nohz_balance_enter_idle(int cpu) { } static inline void set_cpu_sd_state_idle(void) { } -static inline int get_nohz_timer_target(int pinned) -{ - return smp_processor_id(); -} #endif /* -- cgit v1.1