sched/fair: Add NOHZ balancer flag for nohz.next_balance updates

A following patch will trigger NOHZ idle balances as a means to update
nohz.next_balance. Vincent noted that blocked load updates can have
non-negligible overhead, which should be avoided if the intent is to only
update nohz.next_balance.

Add a new NOHZ balance kick flag, NOHZ_NEXT_KICK. Gate NOHZ blocked load
update by the presence of NOHZ_STATS_KICK - currently all NOHZ balance
kicks will have the NOHZ_STATS_KICK flag set, so no change in behaviour is
expected.
Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210823111700.2842997-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com

kernel/sched/fair.c

@@ -10375,7 +10375,7 @@ static void nohz_balancer_kick(struct rq *rq)
 		goto out;
 
 	if (rq->nr_running >= 2) {
-		flags = NOHZ_KICK_MASK;
+		flags = NOHZ_STATS_KICK | NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -10389,7 +10389,7 @@ static void nohz_balancer_kick(struct rq *rq)
 		 * on.
 		 */
 		if (rq->cfs.h_nr_running >= 1 && check_cpu_capacity(rq, sd)) {
-			flags = NOHZ_KICK_MASK;
+			flags = NOHZ_STATS_KICK | NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK;
 			goto unlock;
 		}
 	}
@@ -10403,7 +10403,7 @@ static void nohz_balancer_kick(struct rq *rq)
 		 */
 		for_each_cpu_and(i, sched_domain_span(sd), nohz.idle_cpus_mask) {
 			if (sched_asym_prefer(i, cpu)) {
-				flags = NOHZ_KICK_MASK;
+				flags = NOHZ_STATS_KICK | NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK;
 				goto unlock;
 			}
 		}
@@ -10416,7 +10416,7 @@ static void nohz_balancer_kick(struct rq *rq)
 		 * to run the misfit task on.
 		 */
 		if (check_misfit_status(rq, sd)) {
-			flags = NOHZ_KICK_MASK;
+			flags = NOHZ_STATS_KICK | NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK;
 			goto unlock;
 		}
 
@@ -10443,7 +10443,7 @@ static void nohz_balancer_kick(struct rq *rq)
 		 */
 		nr_busy = atomic_read(&sds->nr_busy_cpus);
 		if (nr_busy > 1) {
-			flags = NOHZ_KICK_MASK;
+			flags = NOHZ_STATS_KICK | NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK;
 			goto unlock;
 		}
 	}
@@ -10605,6 +10605,7 @@ static void _nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned int flags,
 	 * setting the flag, we are sure to not clear the state and not
 	 * check the load of an idle cpu.
 	 */
+	if (flags & NOHZ_STATS_KICK)
 		WRITE_ONCE(nohz.has_blocked, 0);
 
 	/*
@@ -10627,12 +10628,14 @@ static void _nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned int flags,
 		 * balancing owner will pick it up.
 		 */
 		if (need_resched()) {
+			if (flags & NOHZ_STATS_KICK)
 				has_blocked_load = true;
 			goto abort;
 		}
 
 		rq = cpu_rq(balance_cpu);
 
+		if (flags & NOHZ_STATS_KICK)
 			has_blocked_load |= update_nohz_stats(rq);
 
 		/*
@@ -10664,6 +10667,7 @@ static void _nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned int flags,
 	if (likely(update_next_balance))
 		nohz.next_balance = next_balance;
 
+	if (flags & NOHZ_STATS_KICK)
 		WRITE_ONCE(nohz.next_blocked,
 			   now + msecs_to_jiffies(LOAD_AVG_PERIOD));
 

kernel/sched/sched.h

@@ -2709,12 +2709,18 @@ extern void cfs_bandwidth_usage_dec(void);
 #define NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK_BIT	0
 #define NOHZ_STATS_KICK_BIT	1
 #define NOHZ_NEWILB_KICK_BIT	2
+#define NOHZ_NEXT_KICK_BIT	3
 
+/* Run rebalance_domains() */
 #define NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK	BIT(NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK_BIT)
+/* Update blocked load */
 #define NOHZ_STATS_KICK		BIT(NOHZ_STATS_KICK_BIT)
+/* Update blocked load when entering idle */
 #define NOHZ_NEWILB_KICK	BIT(NOHZ_NEWILB_KICK_BIT)
+/* Update nohz.next_balance */
+#define NOHZ_NEXT_KICK		BIT(NOHZ_NEXT_KICK_BIT)
 
-#define NOHZ_KICK_MASK	(NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK | NOHZ_STATS_KICK)
+#define NOHZ_KICK_MASK	(NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK | NOHZ_STATS_KICK | NOHZ_NEXT_KICK)
 
 #define nohz_flags(cpu)	(&cpu_rq(cpu)->nohz_flags)