commit 1bda3f8087fce9063da0b8aef87f17a3fe541aca
author Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Wed Feb 21 05:17:26 2018 +0100
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Wed Feb 21 09:49:08 2018 +0100
tree edc54db089d5a761a3fb40abad0fea3b8eb9b5a0
parent 22ab8bc02a5f6e8ffc418759894f7a6b0b632331

sched/isolation: Isolate workqueues when "nohz_full=" is set

As we prepare for offloading the residual 1hz scheduler ticks to
workqueue, let's affine those to housekeepers so that they don't
interrupt the CPUs that don't want to be disturbed.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519186649-3242-5-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

include/linux/sched/isolation.h

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/isolation.h b/include/linux/sched/isolation.h
index d849431..4a6582c 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/isolation.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/isolation.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ enum hk_flags {
 	HK_FLAG_SCHED		= (1 << 3),
 	HK_FLAG_TICK		= (1 << 4),
 	HK_FLAG_DOMAIN		= (1 << 5),
+	HK_FLAG_WQ		= (1 << 6),
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION

kernel/sched/isolation.c

diff --git a/kernel/sched/isolation.c b/kernel/sched/isolation.c
index b71b436..a2500c4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/isolation.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/isolation.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  *  any CPU: unbound workqueues, timers, kthreads and any offloadable work.
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2017 Red Hat, Inc., Frederic Weisbecker
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 SUSE, Frederic Weisbecker
  *
  */
 
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ static int __init housekeeping_nohz_full_setup(char *str)
 {
 	unsigned int flags;
 
-	flags = HK_FLAG_TICK | HK_FLAG_TIMER | HK_FLAG_RCU | HK_FLAG_MISC;
+	flags = HK_FLAG_TICK | HK_FLAG_WQ | HK_FLAG_TIMER | HK_FLAG_RCU | HK_FLAG_MISC;
 
 	return housekeeping_setup(str, flags);
 }

kernel/workqueue.c

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 017044c..593dbe7 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5565,12 +5565,13 @@ static void __init wq_numa_init(void)
 int __init workqueue_init_early(void)
 {
 	int std_nice[NR_STD_WORKER_POOLS] = { 0, HIGHPRI_NICE_LEVEL };
+	int hk_flags = HK_FLAG_DOMAIN | HK_FLAG_WQ;
 	int i, cpu;
 
 	WARN_ON(__alignof__(struct pool_workqueue) < __alignof__(long long));
 
 	BUG_ON(!alloc_cpumask_var(&wq_unbound_cpumask, GFP_KERNEL));
-	cpumask_copy(wq_unbound_cpumask, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_DOMAIN));
+	cpumask_copy(wq_unbound_cpumask, housekeeping_cpumask(hk_flags));
 
 	pwq_cache = KMEM_CACHE(pool_workqueue, SLAB_PANIC);