[PATCH] timers/nohz: Restructure and reshuffle struct tick_sched

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 03:44:00PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> @Frederic: This structure is patently unstructured and if we fix this
> issue here then we really want to look at the cache line layout for
> real.

I'm not really good at that, but here is my try:

---
From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 16:08:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] timers/nohz: Restructure and reshuffle struct tick_sched

Restructure and group fields by access in order to optimize cache
layout. While at it, also add missing kernel doc for two fields:
@last_jiffies and @idle_expires.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.h | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.h b/kernel/time/tick-sched.h
index 504649513399..c6663254d17d 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.h
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.h
@@ -22,65 +22,81 @@ enum tick_nohz_mode {
 
 /**
  * struct tick_sched - sched tick emulation and no idle tick control/stats
- * @sched_timer:	hrtimer to schedule the periodic tick in high
- *			resolution mode
- * @check_clocks:	Notification mechanism about clocksource changes
- * @nohz_mode:		Mode - one state of tick_nohz_mode
+ *
  * @inidle:		Indicator that the CPU is in the tick idle mode
  * @tick_stopped:	Indicator that the idle tick has been stopped
  * @idle_active:	Indicator that the CPU is actively in the tick idle mode;
  *			it is reset during irq handling phases.
- * @do_timer_lst:	CPU was the last one doing do_timer before going idle
+ * @do_timer_last:	CPU was the last one doing do_timer before going idle
  * @got_idle_tick:	Tick timer function has run with @inidle set
+ * @stalled_jiffies:	Number of stalled jiffies detected across ticks
+ * @last_tick_jiffies:	Value of jiffies seen on last tick
+ * @sched_timer:	hrtimer to schedule the periodic tick in high
+ *			resolution mode
  * @last_tick:		Store the last tick expiry time when the tick
  *			timer is modified for nohz sleeps. This is necessary
  *			to resume the tick timer operation in the timeline
  *			when the CPU returns from nohz sleep.
  * @next_tick:		Next tick to be fired when in dynticks mode.
  * @idle_jiffies:	jiffies at the entry to idle for idle time accounting
+ * @idle_waketime:	Time when the idle was interrupted
+ * @idle_entrytime:	Time when the idle call was entered
+ * @nohz_mode:		Mode - one state of tick_nohz_mode
+ * @last_jiffies:	Base jiffies snapshot when next event was last computed
+ * @timer_expires_base:	Base time clock monotonic for @timer_expires
+ * @timer_expires:	Anticipated timer expiration time (in case sched tick is stopped)
+ * @next_timer:		Expiry time of next expiring timer for debugging purpose only
+ * @idle_expires:	Next tick in idle, for debugging purpose only
  * @idle_calls:		Total number of idle calls
  * @idle_sleeps:	Number of idle calls, where the sched tick was stopped
- * @idle_entrytime:	Time when the idle call was entered
- * @idle_waketime:	Time when the idle was interrupted
  * @idle_exittime:	Time when the idle state was left
  * @idle_sleeptime:	Sum of the time slept in idle with sched tick stopped
  * @iowait_sleeptime:	Sum of the time slept in idle with sched tick stopped, with IO outstanding
- * @timer_expires:	Anticipated timer expiration time (in case sched tick is stopped)
- * @timer_expires_base:	Base time clock monotonic for @timer_expires
- * @next_timer:		Expiry time of next expiring timer for debugging purpose only
  * @tick_dep_mask:	Tick dependency mask - is set, if someone needs the tick
- * @last_tick_jiffies:	Value of jiffies seen on last tick
- * @stalled_jiffies:	Number of stalled jiffies detected across ticks
+ * @check_clocks:	Notification mechanism about clocksource changes
  */
 struct tick_sched {
-	struct hrtimer			sched_timer;
-	unsigned long			check_clocks;
-	enum tick_nohz_mode		nohz_mode;
-
+	/* Common flags */
 	unsigned int			inidle		: 1;
 	unsigned int			tick_stopped	: 1;
 	unsigned int			idle_active	: 1;
 	unsigned int			do_timer_last	: 1;
 	unsigned int			got_idle_tick	: 1;
 
+	/* Tick handling: jiffies stall check */
+	unsigned int			stalled_jiffies;
+	unsigned long			last_tick_jiffies;
+
+	/* Tick handling */
+	struct hrtimer			sched_timer;
 	ktime_t				last_tick;
 	ktime_t				next_tick;
 	unsigned long			idle_jiffies;
-	unsigned long			idle_calls;
-	unsigned long			idle_sleeps;
-	ktime_t				idle_entrytime;
 	ktime_t				idle_waketime;
-	ktime_t				idle_exittime;
-	ktime_t				idle_sleeptime;
-	ktime_t				iowait_sleeptime;
+
+	/* Idle entry */
+	ktime_t				idle_entrytime;
+
+	/* Tick stop */
+	enum tick_nohz_mode		nohz_mode;
 	unsigned long			last_jiffies;
-	u64				timer_expires;
 	u64				timer_expires_base;
+	u64				timer_expires;
 	u64				next_timer;
 	ktime_t				idle_expires;
+	unsigned long			idle_calls;
+	unsigned long			idle_sleeps;
+
+	/* Idle exit */
+	ktime_t				idle_exittime;
+	ktime_t				idle_sleeptime;
+	ktime_t				iowait_sleeptime;
+
+	/* Full dynticks handling */
 	atomic_t			tick_dep_mask;
-	unsigned long			last_tick_jiffies;
-	unsigned int			stalled_jiffies;
+
+	/* Clocksource changes */
+	unsigned long			check_clocks;
 };
 
 extern struct tick_sched *tick_get_tick_sched(int cpu);
-- 
2.34.1