[patch 4/7] tick/sched: Reduce seqcount held scope in tick_do_update_jiffies64()

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Nov 17 2020 - 09:24:36 EST


If jiffies are up to date already (caller lost the race against another
CPU) there is no point to change the sequence count. Doing that just forces
other CPUs into the seqcount retry loop in tick_nohz_next_event() for
nothing.

Just bail out early.

Reported-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -86,38 +86,35 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(kti

/* Reevaluate with jiffies_lock held */
raw_spin_lock(&jiffies_lock);
+ if (ktime_before(now, tick_next_period)) {
+ raw_spin_unlock(&jiffies_lock);
+ return;
+ }
+
write_seqcount_begin(&jiffies_seq);

- delta = ktime_sub(now, last_jiffies_update);
- if (delta >= tick_period) {
+ last_jiffies_update = ktime_add(last_jiffies_update, tick_period);

- delta = ktime_sub(delta, tick_period);
- last_jiffies_update = ktime_add(last_jiffies_update,
- tick_period);
-
- /* Slow path for long timeouts */
- if (unlikely(delta >= tick_period)) {
- s64 incr = ktime_to_ns(tick_period);
-
- ticks = ktime_divns(delta, incr);
-
- last_jiffies_update = ktime_add_ns(last_jiffies_update,
- incr * ticks);
- }
- do_timer(++ticks);
-
- /*
- * Keep the tick_next_period variable up to date.
- * WRITE_ONCE() pairs with the READ_ONCE() in the lockless
- * quick check above.
- */
- WRITE_ONCE(tick_next_period,
- ktime_add(last_jiffies_update, tick_period));
- } else {
- write_seqcount_end(&jiffies_seq);
- raw_spin_unlock(&jiffies_lock);
- return;
+ delta = ktime_sub(now, tick_next_period);
+ if (unlikely(delta >= tick_period)) {
+ /* Slow path for long idle sleep times */
+ s64 incr = ktime_to_ns(tick_period);
+
+ ticks = ktime_divns(delta, incr);
+
+ last_jiffies_update = ktime_add_ns(last_jiffies_update,
+ incr * ticks);
}
+
+ do_timer(++ticks);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep the tick_next_period variable up to date. WRITE_ONCE()
+ * pairs with the READ_ONCE() in the lockless quick check above.
+ */
+ WRITE_ONCE(tick_next_period,
+ ktime_add(last_jiffies_update, tick_period));
+
write_seqcount_end(&jiffies_seq);
raw_spin_unlock(&jiffies_lock);
update_wall_time();