Hi Alex,
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 05:58:22PM +0000, Alex Belits wrote:
> From: Yuri Norov <ynorov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For nohz_full CPUs the desirable behavior is to receive interrupts
> generated by tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(). But for hard isolation it's
> obviously not desirable because it breaks isolation.
>
> This patch adds check for it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuri Norov <ynorov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [abelits@xxxxxxxxxxx: updated, only exclude CPUs running isolated tasks]
> Signed-off-by: Alex Belits <abelits@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> index a213952541db..6c8679e200f0 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
> #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
> #include <linux/sched/stat.h>
> #include <linux/sched/nohz.h>
> +#include <linux/isolation.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/irq_work.h>
> #include <linux/posix-timers.h>
> @@ -268,7 +269,8 @@ static void tick_nohz_full_kick(void)
> */
> void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu)
> {
> - if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu))
> + smp_rmb();
> + if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu) || task_isolation_on_cpu(cpu))
> return;
Like I said in subsequent reviews, we are not going to ignore IPIs.
We must fix the sources of these IPIs instead.
Thanks.
>
> irq_work_queue_on(&per_cpu(nohz_full_kick_work, cpu), cpu);
> --
> 2.20.1
>
