sched/fair: Update blocked load from newly idle balance
We now have a NOHZ kick to avoid the load of idle CPUs becoming stale. This is
good, but it brings about CPU wakeups, which have an energy cost. As an
alternative to waking CPUs up to do decay blocked load, we can sometimes do it
from newly idle balance. If the newly idle balance is on a domain that covers
all the currently nohz-idle CPUs, we push the value of nohz.next_update into the
future. That means that if such newly idle balances happen often enough, we
never need wake up a CPU just to update load.
Since we're doing this new update inside a for_each_domain, we need to do
something to avoid doing multiple updates on the same CPU in the same
idle_balance. A tick stamp is set on the rq in update_blocked_averages as a
simple way to do this. Using a simple jiffies-based timestamp, as opposed to the
last_update_time of the root cfs_rq's sched_avg, means we can do this without
taking the rq lock.
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by:
Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@arm.com>
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