sched/nohz: Optimize get_nohz_timer_target()
authorWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:50:27 +0000 (08:50 +0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:36:57 +0000 (21:36 +0100)
commite938b9c94164e4d981039f1cf6007d7453883e5a
tree3ce4be9bc827fb32bd2ca38d71a5d6f601d5fe69
parentb562d140649966d4daedd0483a8fe59ad3bb465a
sched/nohz: Optimize get_nohz_timer_target()

On a machine, CPU 0 is used for housekeeping, the other 39 CPUs in the
same socket are in nohz_full mode. We can observe huge time burn in the
loop for seaching nearest busy housekeeper cpu by ftrace.

  2)               |                        get_nohz_timer_target() {
  2)   0.240 us    |                          housekeeping_test_cpu();
  2)   0.458 us    |                          housekeeping_test_cpu();

  ...

  2)   0.292 us    |                          housekeeping_test_cpu();
  2)   0.240 us    |                          housekeeping_test_cpu();
  2)   0.227 us    |                          housekeeping_any_cpu();
  2) + 43.460 us   |                        }

This patch optimizes the searching logic by finding a nearest housekeeper
CPU in the housekeeping cpumask, it can minimize the worst searching time
from ~44us to < 10us in my testing. In addition, the last iterated busy
housekeeper can become a random candidate while current CPU is a better
fallback if it is a housekeeper.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578876627-11938-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com
kernel/sched/core.c