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    sched/isolation: Offload residual 1Hz scheduler tick · d84b3131
    Frederic Weisbecker authored
    When a CPU runs in full dynticks mode, a 1Hz tick remains in order to
    keep the scheduler stats alive. However this residual tick is a burden
    for bare metal tasks that can't stand any interruption at all, or want
    to minimize them.
    
    The usual boot parameters "nohz_full=" or "isolcpus=nohz" will now
    outsource these scheduler ticks to the global workqueue so that a
    housekeeping CPU handles those remotely. The sched_class::task_tick()
    implementations have been audited and look safe to be called remotely
    as the target runqueue and its current task are passed in parameter
    and don't seem to be accessed locally.
    
    Note that in the case of using isolcpus, it's still up to the user to
    affine the global workqueues to the housekeeping CPUs through
    /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask or domains isolation
    "isolcpus=nohz,domain".
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarPeter 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/1519186649-3242-6-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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