[PATCH 7/7 v3] sched/fair: reduce the window for duplicated update

From: Vincent Guittot
Date: Fri Feb 12 2021 - 09:20:40 EST


Start to update last_blocked_load_update_tick to reduce the possibility
of another cpu starting the update one more time

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index cd0ea635225e..7ef0911529ee 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7852,16 +7852,20 @@ static inline bool others_have_blocked(struct rq *rq)
return false;
}

-static inline void update_blocked_load_status(struct rq *rq, bool has_blocked)
+static inline void update_blocked_load_tick(struct rq *rq)
{
- rq->last_blocked_load_update_tick = jiffies;
+ WRITE_ONCE(rq->last_blocked_load_update_tick, jiffies);
+}

+static inline void update_blocked_load_status(struct rq *rq, bool has_blocked)
+{
if (!has_blocked)
rq->has_blocked_load = 0;
}
#else
static inline bool cfs_rq_has_blocked(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq) { return false; }
static inline bool others_have_blocked(struct rq *rq) { return false; }
+static inline void update_blocked_load_tick(struct rq *rq) {}
static inline void update_blocked_load_status(struct rq *rq, bool has_blocked) {}
#endif

@@ -8022,6 +8026,7 @@ static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
struct rq_flags rf;

rq_lock_irqsave(rq, &rf);
+ update_blocked_load_tick(rq);
update_rq_clock(rq);

decayed |= __update_blocked_others(rq, &done);
@@ -8363,7 +8368,7 @@ static bool update_nohz_stats(struct rq *rq)
if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, nohz.idle_cpus_mask))
return false;

- if (!time_after(jiffies, rq->last_blocked_load_update_tick))
+ if (!time_after(jiffies, READ_ONCE(rq->last_blocked_load_update_tick)))
return true;

update_blocked_averages(cpu);
--
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