user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/hrtimer.h, branch v4.2.4

timer: Minimize nohz off overhead

2015-06-19T13:18:28Z

If nohz is disabled on the kernel command line the [hr]timer code still calls wake_up_nohz_cpu() and tick_nohz_full_cpu(), a pretty pointless exercise. Cache nohz_active in [hr]timer per cpu bases and avoid the overhead. Before: 48.10% hog [.] main 15.25% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 9.76% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore 6.50% [kernel] [k] mod_timer 6.44% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38 3.87% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending 3.80% [kernel] [k] del_timer 2.67% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer 1.33% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer 0.73% [kernel] [k] timerfn 0.54% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu After: 48.73% hog [.] main 15.36% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 9.77% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore 6.61% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38 6.42% [kernel] [k] mod_timer 3.90% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending 3.76% [kernel] [k] del_timer 2.41% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer 1.39% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer 0.76% [kernel] [k] timerfn We probably should have a cached value for nohz full in the per cpu bases as well to avoid the cpumask check. The base cache line is hot already, the cpumask not necessarily. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: John Stultz Cc: Joonwoo Park Cc: Wenbo Wang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.207378134@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled

2015-06-19T13:18:28Z

Eric reported that the timer_migration sysctl is not really nice performance wise as it needs to check at every timer insertion whether the feature is enabled or not. Further the check does not live in the timer code, so we have an extra function call which checks an extra cache line to figure out that it is disabled. We can do better and store that information in the per cpu (hr)timer bases. I pondered to use a static key, but that's a nightmare to update from the nohz code and the timer base cache line is hot anyway when we select a timer base. The old logic enabled the timer migration unconditionally if CONFIG_NO_HZ was set even if nohz was disabled on the kernel command line. With this modification, we start off with migration disabled. The user visible sysctl is still set to enabled. If the kernel switches to NOHZ migration is enabled, if the user did not disable it via the sysctl prior to the switch. If nohz=off is on the kernel command line, migration stays disabled no matter what. Before: 47.76% hog [.] main 14.84% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 9.55% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore 6.71% [kernel] [k] mod_timer 6.24% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38 3.76% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending 3.71% [kernel] [k] del_timer 2.50% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer 1.51% [kernel] [k] get_nohz_timer_target 1.28% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer 0.78% [kernel] [k] timerfn 0.48% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu After: 48.10% hog [.] main 15.25% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 9.76% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore 6.50% [kernel] [k] mod_timer 6.44% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38 3.87% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending 3.80% [kernel] [k] del_timer 2.67% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer 1.33% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer 0.73% [kernel] [k] timerfn 0.54% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu Reported-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: John Stultz Cc: Joonwoo Park Cc: Wenbo Wang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.127050787@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer

2015-06-18T22:09:56Z

Currently an hrtimer callback function cannot free its own timer because __run_hrtimer() still needs to clear HRTIMER_STATE_CALLBACK after it. Freeing the timer would result in a clear use-after-free. Solve this by using a scheme similar to regular timers; track the current running timer in hrtimer_clock_base::running. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: ktkhai@parallels.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: pang.xunlei@linaro.org Cc: wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com Cc: Al Viro Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150611124743.471563047@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

hrtimer: Remove HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE

2015-06-18T22:09:56Z

I do not understand HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE. Unless I am totally confused it looks buggy and simply unneeded. migrate_hrtimer_list() sets it to keep hrtimer_active() == T, but this is not enough: this can fool, say, hrtimer_is_queued() in dequeue_signal(). Can't migrate_hrtimer_list() simply use HRTIMER_STATE_ENQUEUED? This fixes the race and we can kill STATE_MIGRATE. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: ktkhai@parallels.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: pang.xunlei@linaro.org Cc: wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150611124743.072387650@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

hrtimers: Make sure hrtimer_resolution is unsigned int

2015-06-08T13:46:06Z

... in the !CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS case too. And thus fix warnings like this one: net/sched/sch_api.c: In function ‘psched_show’: net/sched/sch_api.c:1891:6: warning: format ‘%x’ expects argument of type ‘unsigned int’, but argument 6 has type ‘long int’ [-Wformat=] (u32)NSEC_PER_SEC / hrtimer_resolution); Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433583000-32090-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Gleixner

hrtimer: Remove hrtimer_start() return value

2015-04-22T15:06:52Z

No user was ever interested whether the timer was active or not when it was started. All abusers of the return value are gone, so get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Preeti U Murthy Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203503.483556394@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

hrtimer: Make hrtimer_start() a inline wrapper

2015-04-22T15:06:51Z

No point for an extra export just to set the extra argument of hrtimer_start_range_ns() to 0. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Preeti U Murthy Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.808544539@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

hrtimer: Get rid of __hrtimer_start_range_ns()

2015-04-22T15:06:51Z

No more callers. Remove the leftovers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Preeti U Murthy Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.707871492@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

tick: Nohz: Rework next timer evaluation

2015-04-22T15:06:50Z

The evaluation of the next timer in the nohz code is based on jiffies while all the tick internals are nano seconds based. We have also to convert hrtimer nanoseconds to jiffies in the !highres case. That's just wrong and introduces interesting corner cases. Turn it around and convert the next timer wheel timer expiry and the rcu event to clock monotonic and base all calculations on nanoseconds. That identifies the case where no timer is pending clearly with an absolute expiry value of KTIME_MAX. Makes the code more readable and gets rid of the jiffies magic in the nohz code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Preeti U Murthy Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: John Stultz Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.184198593@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

hrtimer: Get rid of hrtimer softirq

2015-04-22T15:06:50Z

hrtimer softirq is a leftover from the initial implementation and serves only the purpose to handle the enqueueing of already expired timers in the high resolution timer mode. We discussed whether we change the return value and force all start sites to handle that the timer is already expired, but that would be a Herculean task and I'm not sure whether its a good idea to enforce that handling on everyone. A simpler solution is to enforce a timer interrupt instead of raising and scheduling a softirq. Just use the existing infrastructure to do so and remove all the softirq leftovers. The HRTIMER softirq enum is now unused, but kept around because trace parsers rely on the existing numbering. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Preeti U Murthy Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203501.840834708@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner