Commit 3310d4d3 authored Jun 17, 2010 by Peter Zijlstra Committed by Thomas Gleixner Jun 17, 2010

nohz: Fix nohz ratelimit



Chris Wedgwood reports that 39c0cbe2 (sched: Rate-limit nohz) causes a
serial console regression, unresponsiveness, and indeed it does. The
reason is that the nohz code is skipped even when the tick was already
stopped before the nohz_ratelimit(cpu) condition changed.

Move the nohz_ratelimit() check to the other conditions which prevent
long idle sleeps.

Reported-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Tested-by: Brian Bloniarz <bmb@athenacr.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be>
LKML-Reference: <1276790557.27822.516.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

parent 7e27d6e7

kernel/time/tick-sched.c

+1 −4

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -315,9 +315,6 @@ 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 {
		@@ -328,7 +325,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle)
		} while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));

		if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu) \|\| printk_needs_cpu(cpu) \|\|
		arch_needs_cpu(cpu)) {
		arch_needs_cpu(cpu) \|\| nohz_ratelimit(cpu)) {
		next_jiffies = last_jiffies + 1;
		delta_jiffies = 1;
		} else {

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