2013/4/4 Frederic Weisbecker fweisbec@gmail.com:
2013/4/3 Vincent Guittot vincent.guittot@linaro.org:
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 vincent.guittot@linaro.org
include/linux/sched.h | 6 +++ kernel/sched/core.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- kernel/sched/fair.c | 35 +++++++++++------ kernel/sched/sched.h | 24 +++++++++-- 4 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index d35d2b6..2a52188 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;Why not make it part of the structure content instead of pointing to it?
I just realize that would make destroy_sched_domains() too complicated because only the leaf sched_domain belong to a sched_domain_rq. Nevermind.