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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 18 |
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b69cfdc1211..ea38cd1f0ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2532,6 +2532,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. + skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate + xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock + contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. + Format: { "0" | "1" } + 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" + 1 -- enable. + Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be + enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. + security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first security module asking for security registration will be diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 6a3a5b9ff56..4eddbb5ea9c 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -814,6 +814,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer *timer) return HRTIMER_RESTART; } +static int sched_skew_tick; + /** * tick_setup_sched_timer - setup the tick emulation timer */ @@ -831,6 +833,14 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void) /* Get the next period (per cpu) */ hrtimer_set_expires(&ts->sched_timer, tick_init_jiffy_update()); + /* Offset the tick to avert xtime_lock contention. */ + if (sched_skew_tick) { + u64 offset = ktime_to_ns(tick_period) >> 1; + do_div(offset, num_possible_cpus()); + offset *= smp_processor_id(); + hrtimer_add_expires_ns(&ts->sched_timer, offset); + } + for (;;) { hrtimer_forward(&ts->sched_timer, now, tick_period); hrtimer_start_expires(&ts->sched_timer, @@ -910,3 +920,11 @@ int tick_check_oneshot_change(int allow_nohz) tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(); return 0; } + +static int __init skew_tick(char *str) +{ + get_option(&str, &sched_skew_tick); + + return 0; +} +early_param("skew_tick", skew_tick); |