[PATCH 6/6] sched/fair: reduce the window for duplicated update

From: Vincent Guittot
Date: Fri Feb 05 2021 - 06:52:44 EST


Start to update last_blocked_load_update_tick to reduce the possibility
of another cpu starting the update one more time

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 16 ++++++----------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 3d2ab28d5736..968808c2c022 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7852,17 +7852,9 @@ static inline bool others_have_blocked(struct rq *rq)
return false;
}

-static inline void update_blocked_load_status(struct rq *rq, bool has_blocked)
-{
- rq->last_blocked_load_update_tick = jiffies;
-
- if (!has_blocked)
- rq->has_blocked_load = 0;
-}
#else
static inline bool cfs_rq_has_blocked(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq) { return false; }
static inline bool others_have_blocked(struct rq *rq) { return false; }
-static inline void update_blocked_load_status(struct rq *rq, bool has_blocked) {}
#endif

static bool __update_blocked_others(struct rq *rq, bool *done)
@@ -8022,12 +8014,16 @@ static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
struct rq_flags rf;

rq_lock_irqsave(rq, &rf);
+ WRITE_ONCE(rq->last_blocked_load_update_tick, jiffies);
+
update_rq_clock(rq);

decayed |= __update_blocked_others(rq, &done);
decayed |= __update_blocked_fair(rq, &done);

- update_blocked_load_status(rq, !done);
+ if (done)
+ rq->has_blocked_load = 0;
+
if (decayed)
cpufreq_update_util(rq, 0);
rq_unlock_irqrestore(rq, &rf);
@@ -8363,7 +8359,7 @@ static bool update_nohz_stats(struct rq *rq)
if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, nohz.idle_cpus_mask))
return false;

- if (!time_after(jiffies, rq->last_blocked_load_update_tick))
+ if (!time_after(jiffies, READ_ONCE(rq->last_blocked_load_update_tick)))
return true;

update_blocked_averages(cpu);
--
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