[patch 2/2] nohz: change signal tick dependency to wakeup CPUs of member tasks

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Rather than waking up all nohz_full CPUs on the system, only wakeup 
the target CPUs of member threads of the signal.

Reduces interruptions to nohz_full CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -396,9 +396,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_dep_clear_ta
  * Set a per-taskgroup tick dependency. Posix CPU timers need this in order to elapse
  * per process timers.
  */
-void tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(struct signal_struct *sig, enum tick_dep_bits bit)
+void tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, enum tick_dep_bits bit)
 {
-	tick_nohz_dep_set_all(&sig->tick_dep_mask, bit);
+	int prev;
+	struct task_struct *p;
+
+	prev = atomic_fetch_or(BIT(bit), &tsk->signal->tick_dep_mask);
+	if (!prev) {
+		lockdep_assert_held(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
+		for_each_thread(tsk, p)
+			tick_nohz_kick_task(p);
+	}
 }
 
 void tick_nohz_dep_clear_signal(struct signal_struct *sig, enum tick_dep_bits bit)
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/tick.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/tick.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ extern void tick_nohz_dep_set_task(struc
 				   enum tick_dep_bits bit);
 extern void tick_nohz_dep_clear_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
 				     enum tick_dep_bits bit);
-extern void tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(struct signal_struct *signal,
+extern void tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(struct task_struct *tsk,
 				     enum tick_dep_bits bit);
 extern void tick_nohz_dep_clear_signal(struct signal_struct *signal,
 				       enum tick_dep_bits bit);
@@ -252,11 +252,11 @@ static inline void tick_dep_clear_task(s
 	if (tick_nohz_full_enabled())
 		tick_nohz_dep_clear_task(tsk, bit);
 }
-static inline void tick_dep_set_signal(struct signal_struct *signal,
+static inline void tick_dep_set_signal(struct task_struct *tsk,
 				       enum tick_dep_bits bit)
 {
 	if (tick_nohz_full_enabled())
-		tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(signal, bit);
+		tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(tsk, bit);
 }
 static inline void tick_dep_clear_signal(struct signal_struct *signal,
 					 enum tick_dep_bits bit)
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static inline void tick_dep_set_task(str
 				     enum tick_dep_bits bit) { }
 static inline void tick_dep_clear_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
 				       enum tick_dep_bits bit) { }
-static inline void tick_dep_set_signal(struct signal_struct *signal,
+static inline void tick_dep_set_signal(struct task_struct *tsk,
 				       enum tick_dep_bits bit) { }
 static inline void tick_dep_clear_signal(struct signal_struct *signal,
 					 enum tick_dep_bits bit) { }
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ static void arm_timer(struct k_itimer *t
 	if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(timer->it_clock))
 		tick_dep_set_task(p, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER);
 	else
-		tick_dep_set_signal(p->signal, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER);
+		tick_dep_set_signal(p, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1358,7 +1358,7 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_s
 	if (*newval < *nextevt)
 		*nextevt = *newval;
 
-	tick_dep_set_signal(tsk->signal, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER);
+	tick_dep_set_signal(tsk, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER);
 }
 
 static int do_cpu_nanosleep(const clockid_t which_clock, int flags,