From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RDNS_NONE,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:35670 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729646AbgCKPk1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:40:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:39:29 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: cl@rock-chips.com Cc: heiko@sntech.de, mingo@redhat.com, juri.lelli@redhat.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mpe@ellerman.id.au, surenb@google.com, ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk, anshuman.khandual@arm.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, keescook@chromium.org, luto@amacapital.net, wad@chromium.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, geert+renesas@glider.be, george_davis@mentor.com, sudeep.holla@arm.com, linux@armlinux.org.uk, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, info@metux.net, kstewart@linuxfoundation.org, allison@lohutok.net, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, huangtao@rock-chips.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] kthread: do not preempt current task if it is going to call schedule() Message-ID: <20200311153929.GQ12561@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20200306070133.18335-1-cl@rock-chips.com> <20200306070133.18335-2-cl@rock-chips.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200306070133.18335-2-cl@rock-chips.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 03:01:33PM +0800, cl@rock-chips.com wrote: > From: Liang Chen > > when we create a kthread with ktrhead_create_on_cpu(),the child thread > entry is ktread.c:ktrhead() which will be preempted by the parent after > call complete(done) while schedule() is not called yet,then the parent > will call wait_task_inactive(child) but the child is still on the runqueue, > so the parent will schedule_hrtimeout() for 1 jiffy,it will waste a lot of > time,especially on startup. > > parent child > ktrhead_create_on_cpu() > wait_fo_completion(&done) -----> ktread.c:ktrhead() > |----- complete(done);--wakeup and preempted by parent > kthread_bind() <------------| |-> schedule();--dequeue here > wait_task_inactive(child) | > schedule_hrtimeout(1 jiffy) -| > > So we hope the child just wakeup parent but not preempted by parent, and the > child is going to call schedule() soon,then the parent will not call > schedule_hrtimeout(1 jiffy) as the child is already dequeue. > > The same issue for ktrhead_park()&&kthread_parkme(). > This patch can save 120ms on rk312x startup with CONFIG_HZ=300. > > Signed-off-by: Liang Chen Thanks!