sched: Rate-limit nohz

Entering nohz code on every micro-idle is costing ~10% throughput for netperf
TCP_RR when scheduling cross-cpu.  Rate limiting entry fixes this, but raises
ticks a bit.  On my Q6600, an idle box goes from ~85 interrupts/sec to 128.

The higher the context switch rate, the more nohz entry costs.  With this patch
and some cycle recovery patches in my tree, max cross cpu context switch rate is
improved by ~16%, a large portion of which of which is this ratelimiting.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301003.6785.28.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

3 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 8cc863d66477..13efe7dac5fa 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -271,11 +271,17 @@ extern cpumask_var_t nohz_cpu_mask;
 #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ)
 extern int select_nohz_load_balancer(int cpu);
 extern int get_nohz_load_balancer(void);
+extern int nohz_ratelimit(int cpu);
 #else
 static inline int select_nohz_load_balancer(int cpu)
 {
         return 0;
 }
+
+static inline int nohz_ratelimit(int cpu)
+{
+        return 0;
+}
 #endif
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index a4aa071f08f3..60b1bbe2ad1b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -492,6 +492,7 @@ struct rq {
         #define CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX 5
         unsigned long cpu_load[CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX];
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
+        u64 nohz_stamp;
         unsigned char in_nohz_recently;
 #endif
         /* capture load from *all* tasks on this cpu: */
@@ -1228,6 +1229,17 @@ void wake_up_idle_cpu(int cpu)
         if (!tsk_is_polling(rq->idle))
                 smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
 }
+
+int nohz_ratelimit(int cpu)
+{
+        struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
+        u64 diff = rq->clock - rq->nohz_stamp;
+
+        rq->nohz_stamp = rq->clock;
+
+        return diff < (NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) >> 1;
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ */
 
 static u64 sched_avg_period(void)
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index f992762d7f51..f25735a767af 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -262,6 +262,9 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle)
                 goto end;
         }
 
+        if (nohz_ratelimit(cpu))
+                goto end;
+
         ts->idle_calls++;
         /* Read jiffies and the time when jiffies were updated last */
         do {