Re: [PATCH v2] sched/nohz: Optimize get_nohz_timer_target()

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Sun Jan 12 2020 - 20:32:28 EST


On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 22:12, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Wanpeng,
>
> Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> > Hi Thomas,
> > On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 16:29, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> >> > I didn't see your refactor to get_nohz_timer_target() which you
> >> > mentioned in IRC after four months, I can observe cyclictest drop from
> >> > 4~5us to 8us in kvm guest(we offload the lapic timer emulation to
> >> > housekeeping cpu to avoid timer fire external interrupt on the pCPU
> >> > which vCPU resident incur a vCPU vmexit) w/o this patch in the case of
> >> > there is no busy housekeeping cpu. The score can be recovered after I
> >> > give stress to create a busy housekeeping cpu.
> >> >
> >> > Could you consider applying this patch for temporary since I'm not
> >> > sure when the refactor can be ready.
> >>
> >> Yeah. It's delayed (again).... Will pick that up.
> >
> > I didn't find WIP tag for this work after ~half year since v4 was
> > posted https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/28/231 Could you apply this patch
> > for temporary because the completion time of refactor is not
> > deterministic.
>
> Could you please repost it?

Just repost, thanks Thomas.

Wanpeng