softirq: Use hotplug thread infrastructure

[ paulmck: Call rcu_note_context_switch() with interrupts enabled. ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120716103948.456416747@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
softirq: reduce latencies

In various network workloads, __do_softirq() latencies can be up
to 20 ms if HZ=1000, and 200 ms if HZ=100.

This is because we iterate 10 times in the softirq dispatcher,
and some actions can consume a lot of cycles.

This patch changes the fallback to ksoftirqd condition to :

- A time limit of 2 ms.
- need_resched() being set on current task

When one of this condition is met, we wakeup ksoftirqd for further
softirq processing if we still have pending softirqs.

Using need_resched() as the only condition can trigger RCU stalls,
as we can keep BH disabled for too long.

I ran several benchmarks and got no significant difference in
throughput, but a very significant reduction of latencies (one order
of magnitude) :

In following bench, 200 antagonist "netperf -t TCP_RR" are started in
background, using all available cpus.

Then we start one "netperf -t TCP_RR", bound to the cpu handling the NIC
IRQ (hard+soft)

Before patch :

# netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t TCP_RR -T2,2 -- -k
RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET
to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind
RT_LATENCY=550110.424
MIN_LATENCY=146858
MAX_LATENCY=997109
P50_LATENCY=305000
P90_LATENCY=550000
P99_LATENCY=710000
MEAN_LATENCY=376989.12
STDDEV_LATENCY=184046.92

After patch :

# netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t TCP_RR -T2,2 -- -k
RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET
to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind
RT_LATENCY=40545.492
MIN_LATENCY=9834
MAX_LATENCY=78366
P50_LATENCY=33583
P90_LATENCY=59000
P99_LATENCY=69000
MEAN_LATENCY=38364.67
STDDEV_LATENCY=12865.26

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
rcu: Yield simpler

The rcu_yield() code is amazing. It's there to avoid starvation of the
system when lots of (boosting) work is to be done.

Now looking at the code it's functionality is:

 Make the thread SCHED_OTHER and very nice, i.e. get it out of the way
 Arm a timer with 2 ticks
 schedule()

Now if the system goes idle the rcu task returns, regains SCHED_FIFO
and plugs on. If the systems stays busy the timer fires and wakes a
per node kthread which in turn makes the per cpu thread SCHED_FIFO and
brings it back on the cpu. For the boosting thread the "make it FIFO"
bit is missing and it just runs some magic boost checks. Now this is a
lot of code with extra threads and complexity.

It's way simpler to let the tasks when they detect overload schedule
away for 2 ticks and defer the normal wakeup as long as they are in
yielded state and the cpu is not idle.

That solves the same problem and the only difference is that when the
cpu goes idle it's not guaranteed that the thread returns right away,
but it won't be longer out than two ticks, so no harm is done. If
that's an issue than it is way simpler just to wake the task from
idle as RCU has callbacks there anyway.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120716103948.131256723@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
rcu: Use smp_hotplug_thread facility for RCUs per-CPU kthread

Bring RCU into the new-age CPU-hotplug fold by modifying RCU's per-CPU
kthread code to use the new smp_hotplug_thread facility.

[ tglx: Adapted it to use callbacks and to the simplified rcu yield ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120716103948.673354828@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
cpufreq: ondemand: Remove unnecessary synchronization attempt

Commit 1ce28d6b (ondemand: updated tune for hardware coordination)
brings in an attempt to synchronize expiry of per-cpu ondemand timer
at same time across all online cpus. This is meant to help systems
where "multiple cores share P-state via Hardware Coordination".

Synchronization is achieved by having timers expire when jiffy value
would be a perfect multiple of sampling window size. While such
synchronozation attemps are unnecessary on systems where cores don't
share P-states, it can hurt on power as cpus can now work off shorter
sampling windows (when percentage utilization over short window can be
observed to be high, causing frequency to be boosted).

Remove this unnecessary attempt to synchronize expiry of ondemand
timer across online cpus. A more acceptable solution could be to have
low-level architecture specific cpufreq driver indicate the need for
synchronization.

Change-Id: I6cb1cf3472ca106f029dc01248e0df7cfbb495b8
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
cpufreq: interactive: delete timers for GOV_START

Make sure that timers cpu_timer and cpu_slack_timer
deactivated before addition of new.

Change-Id: If31c4049606871df6f00efdc24b1d713c86a6f69
Signed-off-by: Shridhar Rasal <srasal@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharat Nihalani <bnihalani@nvidia.com>
Git-commit: b430123367e78a6557bac3cf1558bcb85193fb12
Git-repo: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/
[mattw@codeaurora.org: resolved trivial context conflict]
Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
cpufreq: interactive: Fix null pointer dereference in interactive governor

For the sync_freq feature currently we check pcpu->policy->cur frequency
for each online cpu.  But for a CPU that isn't using interactive governor
or for an offline CPU, pcpu->policy can be null or an invalid value.
This patch tries to avoid that scenario by using pcpu->target_freq
instead of policy->cur to get the frequency of an online CPU.

Kernel crash without this patch:
[   20.132373] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000028
[   20.132375] pgd = c34f34c0
[   20.132377] pgd = ef6f2440
[   20.132383] [00000028] *pgd=00000000
[   20.132385]
[   20.132388] [00000028] *pgd=2e98f003, *pmd=00000000
[   20.132390] Internal error: Oops: 205 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
[   20.132394] Modules linked in:
[   20.132398] CPU: 0 PID: 1560 Comm: chown Tainted: G        W    3.10.0-perf-gb12057b-00001-ga2c6c16-dirty #7
[   20.132401] task: ef9af300 ti: ee49c000 task.ti: ee49c000
[   20.132411] PC is at cpufreq_interactive_timer+0x10c/0x650
[   20.132415] LR is at cpufreq_interactive_timer+0x128/0x650
<snip>
[   20.133002] [<c07eb204>] (cpufreq_interactive_timer+0x10c/0x650) from [<c02804d8>] (call_timer_fn+0x80/0x198)
[   20.133012] [<c02804d8>] (call_timer_fn+0x80/0x198) from [<c0280acc>] (run_timer_softirq+0x1f8/0x270)
[   20.133019] [<c0280acc>] (run_timer_softirq+0x1f8/0x270) from [<c0279e20>] (__do_softirq+0x12c/0x2d4)
[   20.133025] [<c0279e20>] (__do_softirq+0x12c/0x2d4) from [<c027a2d4>] (irq_exit+0x74/0xc8)
[   20.133034] [<c027a2d4>] (irq_exit+0x74/0xc8) from [<c0206a00>] (handle_IRQ+0x68/0x8c)
[   20.133041] [<c0206a00>] (handle_IRQ+0x68/0x8c) from [<c02004b8>] (gic_handle_irq+0x3c/0x60)
[   20.133051] [<c02004b8>] (gic_handle_irq+0x3c/0x60) from [<c0ac6900>] (__irq_svc+0x40/0x70)
<snip>

Change-Id: Ie834f5d383de4d41e0fe6fbd40c8b0a0c05d82f5
Signed-off-by: Vijay Ganti <viganti@codeaurora.org>
MDP: correct clock calculation logic for up-scaling scenario

Part of yscale calculation logic in mdp4_calc_req_mdp_clk
function is only applicable for downscale scenarios. The
incorrect clock calculation was unnecessarily creating
blt mode requirement even for upscale scenarios.

Change-Id: I036be2ceb2f59fb159885b2d15b208706808198b
Signed-off-by: Nirmal Abraham <nabrah@codeaurora.org>
msm: vidc: No need to allocate metadata by default

If metadata is not enabled by client, there is no need
to enable it by default.

Change-Id: I6d5bd1c04dcdf78549afac57bcaceb82602da270
Signed-off-by: Deepak Verma <dverma@codeaurora.org>