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Frederic Weisbecker 3c8920e2db tick/nohz: Narrow down noise while setting current task's tick dependency
Setting a tick dependency on any task, including the case where a task
sets that dependency on itself, triggers an IPI to all CPUs.  That is
of course suboptimal but it had previously not been an issue because it
was only used by POSIX CPU timers on nohz_full, which apparently never
occurs in latency-sensitive workloads in production.  (Or users of such
systems are suffering in silence on the one hand or venting their ire
on the wrong people on the other.)

But RCU now sets a task tick dependency on the current task in order
to fix stall issues that can occur during RCU callback processing.
Thus, RCU callback processing triggers frequent system-wide IPIs from
nohz_full CPUs.  This is quite counter-productive, after all, avoiding
IPIs is what nohz_full is supposed to be all about.

This commit therefore optimizes tasks' self-setting of a task tick
dependency by using tick_nohz_full_kick() to avoid the system-wide IPI.
Instead, only the execution of the one task is disturbed, which is
acceptable given that this disturbance is well down into the noise
compared to the degree to which the RCU callback processing itself
disturbs execution.

Fixes: 6a949b7af8 (rcu: Force on tick when invoking lots of callbacks)
Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-06-29 11:58:50 -07:00
arch ARM: OMAP fixes for v5.8 2020-06-28 14:57:14 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.