[PATCH 2/8] tick/nohz: Conditionally restart tick on idle exit

[Frederic Weisbecker]

From: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>

In nohz_full mode, switching from idle to a task will unconditionally
issue a tick restart. If the task is alone in the runqueue or is the
highest priority, the tick will fire once then eventually stop. But that
alone is still undesired noise.

Therefore, only restart the tick on idle exit when it's strictly
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index e10a4af88737..c888445fb181 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -926,24 +926,30 @@ static void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
 	tick_nohz_restart(ts, now);
 }
 
-static void tick_nohz_full_update_tick(struct tick_sched *ts)
+static void __tick_nohz_full_update_tick(struct tick_sched *ts,
+					 ktime_t now)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
 	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
-	if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu))
-		return;
-
-	if (!ts->tick_stopped && ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE)
-		return;
-
 	if (can_stop_full_tick(cpu, ts))
 		tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(ts, cpu);
 	else if (ts->tick_stopped)
-		tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(ts, ktime_get());
+		tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(ts, now);
 #endif
 }
 
+static void tick_nohz_full_update_tick(struct tick_sched *ts)
+{
+	if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
+		return;
+
+	if (!ts->tick_stopped && ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE)
+		return;
+
+	__tick_nohz_full_update_tick(ts, ktime_get());
+}
+
 static bool can_stop_idle_tick(int cpu, struct tick_sched *ts)
 {
 	/*
@@ -1205,18 +1211,24 @@ static void tick_nohz_account_idle_ticks(struct tick_sched *ts)
 #endif
 }
 
-static void __tick_nohz_idle_restart_tick(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
-{
-	tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(ts, now);
-	tick_nohz_account_idle_ticks(ts);
-}
-
 void tick_nohz_idle_restart_tick(void)
 {
 	struct tick_sched *ts = this_cpu_ptr(&tick_cpu_sched);
 
-	if (ts->tick_stopped)
-		__tick_nohz_idle_restart_tick(ts, ktime_get());
+	if (ts->tick_stopped) {
+		tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(ts, ktime_get());
+		tick_nohz_account_idle_ticks(ts);
+	}
+}
+
+static void tick_nohz_idle_update_tick(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
+{
+	if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
+		__tick_nohz_full_update_tick(ts, now);
+	else
+		tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(ts, now);
+
+	tick_nohz_account_idle_ticks(ts);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1248,7 +1260,7 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void)
 		tick_nohz_stop_idle(ts, now);
 
 	if (tick_stopped)
-		__tick_nohz_idle_restart_tick(ts, now);
+		tick_nohz_idle_update_tick(ts, now);
 
 	local_irq_enable();
 }
-- 
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