Re: [patch 2/3] nohz: change signal tick dependency to wakeup CPUs of member tasks

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 01:25:21PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 05:21:36PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > 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
> > @@ -444,9 +444,20 @@ 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)
> 
> Why not keeping the signal struct as a parameter?
> 
> Thanks.

All callers use "struct signal_struct *sig = tsk->signal" as
signal parameter anyway...

Can change parameters to (task, signal, bit) if you prefer.