The synchronize_sched_expedited() currently invokes try_stop_cpus(),
which schedules the stopper kthreads on each online non-idle CPU,
and waits until all those kthreads are running before letting any
of them stop. This is disastrous for real-time workloads, which
get hit with a preemption that is as long as the longest scheduling
latency on any CPU, including any non-realtime housekeeping CPUs.
This commit therefore switches to using stop_one_cpu() on each CPU
in turn. This avoids inflicting the worst-case scheduling latency
on the worst-case CPU onto all other CPUs, and also simplifies the
code a little bit.
Follow-up commits will simplify the counter-snapshotting algorithm
and convert a number of the counters that are now protected by the
new ->expedited_mutex to non-atomic.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[ paulmck: Kept stop_one_cpu(), dropped disabling of "guardrails". ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Peter Zijlstra
c190c3b16c