Re: [RFC][Patch v1 1/3] sched/isolation: API to get num of hosekeeping CPUs

From: Nitesh Narayan Lal
Date: Mon Sep 21 2020 - 23:17:08 EST



On 9/21/20 7:40 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 11:08:16AM -0400, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * num_housekeeping_cpus() - Read the number of housekeeping CPUs.
>> + *
>> + * This function returns the number of available housekeeping CPUs
>> + * based on __num_housekeeping_cpus which is of type atomic_t
>> + * and is initialized at the time of the housekeeping setup.
>> + */
>> +unsigned int num_housekeeping_cpus(void)
>> +{
>> + unsigned int cpus;
>> +
>> + if (static_branch_unlikely(&housekeeping_overridden)) {
>> + cpus = atomic_read(&__num_housekeeping_cpus);
>> + /* We should always have at least one housekeeping CPU */
>> + BUG_ON(!cpus);
>> + return cpus;
>> + }
>> + return num_online_cpus();
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(num_housekeeping_cpus);
>> +
>> int housekeeping_any_cpu(enum hk_flags flags)
>> {
>> int cpu;
>> @@ -131,6 +153,7 @@ static int __init housekeeping_setup(char *str, enum hk_flags flags)
>>
>> housekeeping_flags |= flags;
>>
>> + atomic_set(&__num_housekeeping_cpus, cpumask_weight(housekeeping_mask));
> So the problem here is that it takes the whole cpumask weight but you're only
> interested in the housekeepers who take the managed irq duties I guess
> (HK_FLAG_MANAGED_IRQ ?).

IMHO we should also consider the cases where we only have nohz_full.
Otherwise, we may run into the same situation on those setups, do you agree?

>
>> free_bootmem_cpumask_var(non_housekeeping_mask);
>>
>> return 1;
>> --
>> 2.27.0
>>
--
Thanks
Nitesh

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