linux/kernel/time
Jason Low c8d75aa47d posix_cpu_timer: Reduce unnecessary sighand lock contention
It was found while running a database workload on large systems that
significant time was spent trying to acquire the sighand lock.

The issue was that whenever an itimer expired, many threads ended up
simultaneously trying to send the signal. Most of the time, nothing
happened after acquiring the sighand lock because another thread
had just already sent the signal and updated the "next expire" time.
The fastpath_timer_check() didn't help much since the "next expire"
time was updated after the threads exit fastpath_timer_check().

This patch addresses this by having the thread_group_cputimer structure
maintain a boolean to signify when a thread in the group is already
checking for process wide timers, and adds extra logic in the fastpath
to check the boolean.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: hideaki.kimura@hpe.com
Cc: terry.rudd@hpe.com
Cc: scott.norton@hpe.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444849677-29330-5-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-10-15 11:23:41 +02:00
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alarmtimer.c alarmtimer: Get rid of unused return value 2015-04-22 17:06:52 +02:00
clockevents.c clockevents: Remove unused set_mode() callback 2015-09-14 11:00:55 +02:00
clocksource.c Linux 4.3-rc5 2015-10-12 09:51:18 +02:00
hrtimer.c time: Fix spelling in comments 2015-09-22 12:54:23 +02:00
itimer.c time/timers: Move all time(r) related files into kernel/time 2014-06-23 11:22:35 +02:00
jiffies.c tick: Move clocksource related stuff to timekeeping.h 2015-04-01 14:22:58 +02:00
Kconfig rcu: Drop RCU_USER_QS in favor of NO_HZ_FULL 2015-07-06 13:52:18 -07:00
Makefile time: Remove development rules from Kbuild/Makefile 2015-07-01 09:57:35 +02:00
ntp_internal.h time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge 2015-06-12 11:15:49 +02:00
ntp.c time: Add the common weak version of update_persistent_clock() 2015-08-17 11:25:16 -07:00
posix-clock.c
posix-cpu-timers.c posix_cpu_timer: Reduce unnecessary sighand lock contention 2015-10-15 11:23:41 +02:00
posix-timers.c hrtimer: Get rid of hrtimer_get_res() 2015-04-22 17:06:49 +02:00
sched_clock.c timers, sched/clock: Clean up the code a bit 2015-03-27 08:34:01 +01:00
test_udelay.c time: Rename udelay_test.c to test_udelay.c 2014-11-21 11:59:55 -08:00
tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c kernel: broadcast-hrtimer: Migrate to new 'set-state' interface 2015-08-10 11:41:08 +02:00
tick-broadcast.c tick: Move the export of tick_broadcast_oneshot_control to the proper place 2015-07-14 12:01:04 +02:00
tick-common.c clockevents: Remove unused set_mode() callback 2015-09-14 11:00:55 +02:00
tick-internal.h timer: Minimize nohz off overhead 2015-06-19 15:18:28 +02:00
tick-oneshot.c clockevents: Provide functions to set and get the state 2015-06-02 14:40:47 +02:00
tick-sched.c nohz: Assert existing housekeepers when nohz full enabled 2015-09-02 10:33:22 +02:00
tick-sched.h tick/broadcast: Make idle check independent from mode and config 2015-07-07 18:46:47 +02:00
time.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-09-01 14:04:50 -07:00
timeconst.bc time: Move timeconst.h into include/generated 2015-05-19 15:13:45 +02:00
timeconv.c
timecounter.c timecounter: keep track of accumulated fractional nanoseconds 2014-12-30 18:29:27 -05:00
timekeeping_debug.c timekeeping: Convert timekeeping core to use timespec64s 2014-07-23 10:17:54 -07:00
timekeeping_internal.h clocksource: Move cycle_last validation to core code 2014-07-23 15:01:51 -07:00
timekeeping.c time: Fix spelling in comments 2015-09-22 12:54:23 +02:00
timekeeping.h hrtimer: Make offset update smarter 2015-04-22 17:06:49 +02:00
timer_list.c clockevents: Remove unused set_mode() callback 2015-09-14 11:00:55 +02:00
timer_stats.c timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling 2015-06-19 15:18:27 +02:00
timer.c timers: Use __fls in apply_slack() 2015-10-11 22:13:46 +02:00