Commit-ID: 5307c9556bc17e3cd26d4e94fc3b2565921834de
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/5307c9556bc17e3cd26d4e94fc3b2565921834de
Author: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@xxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 8 May 2012 12:20:58 +0200
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 25 May 2012 01:44:50 +0200
tick: Add tick skew boot option
Let the user decide whether power consumption or jitter is the
more important consideration for their machines.
Quoting removal commit af5ab277ded04bd9bc6b048c5a2f0e7d70ef0867:
"Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the
various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on
xtime_lock.
Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens
since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition,
this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on
many-core systems."
Problems:
- Contrary to the above, systems do encounter contention on both
xtime_lock and RCU structure locks when the tick is synchronized.
- Moderate sized RT systems suffer intolerable jitter due to the tick
being synchronized.
- SGI reports the same for their large systems.
- Fully utilized systems reap no power saving benefit from skew removal,
but do suffer from resulting induced lock contention.
- 0209f649 rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout
This patch was born to combat lock contention which testing showed
to have been _induced by_ skew removal. Skew the tick, contention
disappeared virtually completely.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@xxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336472458.21924.78.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 +++++++++
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index b69cfdc12..ea38cd1 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2532,6 +2532,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
+ skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
+ xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
+ contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
+ Format: { "0" | "1" }
+ 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
+ 1 -- enable.
+ Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
+ enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
+
security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
security module asking for security registration will be
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 6a3a5b9..4eddbb5 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -814,6 +814,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
return HRTIMER_RESTART;
}
+static int sched_skew_tick;
+
/**
* tick_setup_sched_timer - setup the tick emulation timer
*/
@@ -831,6 +833,14 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
/* Get the next period (per cpu) */
hrtimer_set_expires(&ts->sched_timer, tick_init_jiffy_update());
+ /* Offset the tick to avert xtime_lock contention. */
+ if (sched_skew_tick) {
+ u64 offset = ktime_to_ns(tick_period) >> 1;
+ do_div(offset, num_possible_cpus());
+ offset *= smp_processor_id();
+ hrtimer_add_expires_ns(&ts->sched_timer, offset);
+ }
+
for (;;) {
hrtimer_forward(&ts->sched_timer, now, tick_period);
hrtimer_start_expires(&ts->sched_timer,
@@ -910,3 +920,11 @@ int tick_check_oneshot_change(int allow_nohz)
tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz();
return 0;
}
+
+static int __init skew_tick(char *str)
+{
+ get_option(&str, &sched_skew_tick);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("skew_tick", skew_tick);
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