hrtimer: Optimize the hrtimer code by using static keys for migration_enable/nohz_active

The hrtimer_cpu_base::migration_enable and ::nohz_active fields
were originally introduced to avoid accessing global variables
for these decisions.

Still that results in a (cache hot) load and conditional branch,
which can be avoided by using static keys.

Implement it with static keys and optimize for the most critical
case of high performance networking which tends to disable the
timer migration functionality.

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: keescook@chromium.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801142327490.2371@nanos
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171221104205.7269-2-anna-maria@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

include/linux/hrtimer.h

@@ -153,8 +153,6 @@ enum  hrtimer_base_type {
  * @cpu:		cpu number
  * @active_bases:	Bitfield to mark bases with active timers
  * @clock_was_set_seq:	Sequence counter of clock was set events
- * @migration_enabled:	The migration of hrtimers to other cpus is enabled
- * @nohz_active:	The nohz functionality is enabled
  * @expires_next:	absolute time of the next event which was scheduled
  *			via clock_set_next_event()
  * @next_timer:		Pointer to the first expiring timer
@@ -178,8 +176,6 @@ struct hrtimer_cpu_base {
 	unsigned int			cpu;
 	unsigned int			active_bases;
 	unsigned int			clock_was_set_seq;
-	bool				migration_enabled;
-	bool				nohz_active;
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS
 	unsigned int			in_hrtirq	: 1,
 					hres_active	: 1,

kernel/time/hrtimer.c

@@ -178,23 +178,16 @@ hrtimer_check_target(struct hrtimer *timer, struct hrtimer_clock_base *new_base)
 #endif
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
-static inline
-struct hrtimer_cpu_base *get_target_base(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base,
-					 int pinned)
-{
-	if (pinned || !base->migration_enabled)
-		return base;
-	return &per_cpu(hrtimer_bases, get_nohz_timer_target());
-}
-#else
 static inline
 struct hrtimer_cpu_base *get_target_base(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base,
 					 int pinned)
 {
+#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON)
+	if (static_branch_likely(&timers_migration_enabled) && !pinned)
+		return &per_cpu(hrtimer_bases, get_nohz_timer_target());
+#endif
 	return base;
 }
-#endif
 
 /*
  * We switch the timer base to a power-optimized selected CPU target,
@@ -969,7 +962,7 @@ void hrtimer_start_range_ns(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
 		 * Kick to reschedule the next tick to handle the new timer
 		 * on dynticks target.
 		 */
-		if (new_base->cpu_base->nohz_active)
+		if (is_timers_nohz_active())
 			wake_up_nohz_cpu(new_base->cpu_base->cpu);
 	} else {
 		hrtimer_reprogram(timer, new_base);

kernel/time/tick-internal.h

@@ -150,14 +150,19 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_init(void) { }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
 extern unsigned long tick_nohz_active;
-#else
+extern void timers_update_nohz(void);
+extern struct static_key_false timers_nohz_active;
+static inline bool is_timers_nohz_active(void)
+{
+	return static_branch_likely(&timers_nohz_active);
+}
+# ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+extern struct static_key_false timers_migration_enabled;
+# endif
+#else /* CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON */
+static inline void timers_update_nohz(void) { }
 #define tick_nohz_active (0)
-#endif
+static inline bool is_timers_nohz_active(void) { return false; }
-
-#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON)
-extern void timers_update_migration(bool update_nohz);
-#else
-static inline void timers_update_migration(bool update_nohz) { }
 #endif
 
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer_cpu_base, hrtimer_bases);

kernel/time/tick-sched.c

@@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_activate(struct tick_sched *ts, int mode)
 	ts->nohz_mode = mode;
 	/* One update is enough */
 	if (!test_and_set_bit(0, &tick_nohz_active))
-		timers_update_migration(true);
+		timers_update_nohz();
 }
 
 /**

kernel/time/timer.c

@@ -200,8 +200,6 @@ struct timer_base {
 	unsigned long		clk;
 	unsigned long		next_expiry;
 	unsigned int		cpu;
-	bool			migration_enabled;
-	bool			nohz_active;
 	bool			is_idle;
 	bool			must_forward_clk;
 	DECLARE_BITMAP(pending_map, WHEEL_SIZE);
@@ -210,45 +208,57 @@ struct timer_base {
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct timer_base, timer_bases[NR_BASES]);
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON)
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
+
+DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(timers_nohz_active);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(timer_keys_mutex);
+
+static void timer_update_keys(struct work_struct *work);
+static DECLARE_WORK(timer_update_work, timer_update_keys);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 unsigned int sysctl_timer_migration = 1;
 
-void timers_update_migration(bool update_nohz)
+DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(timers_migration_enabled);
+
+static void timers_update_migration(void)
 {
-	bool on = sysctl_timer_migration && tick_nohz_active;
+	if (sysctl_timer_migration && tick_nohz_active)
-	unsigned int cpu;
+		static_branch_enable(&timers_migration_enabled);
+	else
+		static_branch_disable(&timers_migration_enabled);
+}
+#else
+static inline void timers_update_migration(void) { }
+#endif /* !CONFIG_SMP */
 
-	/* Avoid the loop, if nothing to update */
+static void timer_update_keys(struct work_struct *work)
-	if (this_cpu_read(timer_bases[BASE_STD].migration_enabled) == on)
+{
-		return;
+	mutex_lock(&timer_keys_mutex);
+	timers_update_migration();
+	static_branch_enable(&timers_nohz_active);
+	mutex_unlock(&timer_keys_mutex);
+}
 
-	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+void timers_update_nohz(void)
-		per_cpu(timer_bases[BASE_STD].migration_enabled, cpu) = on;
+{
-		per_cpu(timer_bases[BASE_DEF].migration_enabled, cpu) = on;
+	schedule_work(&timer_update_work);
-		per_cpu(hrtimer_bases.migration_enabled, cpu) = on;
-		if (!update_nohz)
-			continue;
-		per_cpu(timer_bases[BASE_STD].nohz_active, cpu) = true;
-		per_cpu(timer_bases[BASE_DEF].nohz_active, cpu) = true;
-		per_cpu(hrtimer_bases.nohz_active, cpu) = true;
-	}
 }
 
 int timer_migration_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 			    void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
 			    loff_t *ppos)
 {
-	static DEFINE_MUTEX(mutex);
 	int ret;
 
-	mutex_lock(&mutex);
+	mutex_lock(&timer_keys_mutex);
 	ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
 	if (!ret && write)
-		timers_update_migration(false);
+		timers_update_migration();
-	mutex_unlock(&mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&timer_keys_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }
-#endif
+#endif /* NO_HZ_COMMON */
 
 static unsigned long round_jiffies_common(unsigned long j, int cpu,
 		bool force_up)
@@ -534,7 +544,7 @@ __internal_add_timer(struct timer_base *base, struct timer_list *timer)
 static void
 trigger_dyntick_cpu(struct timer_base *base, struct timer_list *timer)
 {
-	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON) || !base->nohz_active)
+	if (!is_timers_nohz_active())
 		return;
 
 	/*
@@ -849,21 +859,20 @@ static inline struct timer_base *get_timer_base(u32 tflags)
 	return get_timer_cpu_base(tflags, tflags & TIMER_CPUMASK);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
 static inline struct timer_base *
 get_target_base(struct timer_base *base, unsigned tflags)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON)
-	if ((tflags & TIMER_PINNED) || !base->migration_enabled)
+	if (static_branch_likely(&timers_migration_enabled) &&
-		return get_timer_this_cpu_base(tflags);
+	    !(tflags & TIMER_PINNED))
-	return get_timer_cpu_base(tflags, get_nohz_timer_target());
+		return get_timer_cpu_base(tflags, get_nohz_timer_target());
-#else
-	return get_timer_this_cpu_base(tflags);
 #endif
+	return get_timer_this_cpu_base(tflags);
 }
 
 static inline void forward_timer_base(struct timer_base *base)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
 	unsigned long jnow;
 
 	/*
@@ -887,16 +896,8 @@ static inline void forward_timer_base(struct timer_base *base)
 		base->clk = jnow;
 	else
 		base->clk = base->next_expiry;
-}
-#else
-static inline struct timer_base *
-get_target_base(struct timer_base *base, unsigned tflags)
-{
-	return get_timer_this_cpu_base(tflags);
-}
-
-static inline void forward_timer_base(struct timer_base *base) { }
 #endif
+}
 
 
 /*