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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Setting a tick dependency on any task, including the case where a task sets that dependency on itself, triggers an IPI to all CPUs. That is of course suboptimal but it had previously not been an issue because it was only used by POSIX CPU timers on nohz_full, which apparently never occurs in latency-sensitive workloads in production. (Or users of such systems are suffering in silence on the one hand or venting their ire on the wrong people on the other.) But RCU now sets a task tick dependency on the current task in order to fix stall issues that can occur during RCU callback processing. Thus, RCU callback processing triggers frequent system-wide IPIs from nohz_full CPUs. This is quite counter-productive, after all, avoiding IPIs is what nohz_full is supposed to be all about. This commit therefore optimizes tasks' self-setting of a task tick dependency by using tick_nohz_full_kick() to avoid the system-wide IPI. Instead, only the execution of the one task is disturbed, which is acceptable given that this disturbance is well down into the noise compared to the degree to which the RCU callback processing itself disturbs execution. Fixes: 6a949b7a (rcu: Force on tick when invoking lots of callbacks) Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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