From 909d473d444b93aa31954e0484baa211295c5fa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Guittot Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:12:12 +0100 Subject: sched: fix init NOHZ_IDLE flag On my smp platform which is made of 5 cores in 2 clusters, I have the nr_busy_cpu field of sched_group_power struct that is not null when the platform is fully idle. The root cause is: During the boot sequence, some CPUs reach the idle loop and set their NOHZ_IDLE flag while waiting for others CPUs to boot. But the nr_busy_cpus field is initialized later with the assumption that all CPUs are in the busy state whereas some CPUs have already set their NOHZ_IDLE flag. More generally, the NOHZ_IDLE flag must be initialized when new sched_domains are created in order to ensure that NOHZ_IDLE and nr_busy_cpus are aligned. This condition can be ensured by adding a synchronize_rcu between the destruction of old sched_domains and the creation of new ones so the NOHZ_IDLE flag will not be updated with old sched_domain once it has been initialized. But this solution introduces a additionnal latency in the rebuild sequence that is called during cpu hotplug. As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker, another solution is to have the same rcu lifecycle for both NOHZ_IDLE and sched_domain struct. I have introduce a new sched_domain_rq struct that is the entry point for both sched_domains and objects that must follow the same lifecycle like NOHZ_IDLE flags. They will share the same RCU lifecycle and will be always synchronized. The synchronization is done at the cost of : - an additional indirection for accessing the first sched_domain level - an additional indirection and a rcu_dereference before accessing to the NOHZ_IDLE flag. Change since v4: - link both sched_domain and NOHZ_IDLE flag in one RCU object so their states are always synchronized. Change since V3; - NOHZ flag is not cleared if a NULL domain is attached to the CPU - Remove patch 2/2 which becomes useless with latest modifications Change since V2: - change the initialization to idle state instead of busy state so a CPU that enters idle during the build of the sched_domain will not corrupt the initialization state Change since V1: - remove the patch for SCHED softirq on an idle core use case as it was a side effect of the other use cases. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot --- include/linux/sched.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index d35d2b6ddbfb..2a521883b91d 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -959,6 +959,12 @@ struct sched_domain { unsigned long span[0]; }; +struct sched_domain_rq { + struct sched_domain *sd; + unsigned long flags; + struct rcu_head rcu; /* used during destruction */ +}; + static inline struct cpumask *sched_domain_span(struct sched_domain *sd) { return to_cpumask(sd->span); -- cgit v1.2.3