From 616db8779b1e3f93075df691432cccc5ef3c3ba0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 17:02:08 -1000 Subject: workqueue: Automatically mark CPU-hogging work items CPU_INTENSIVE If a per-cpu work item hogs the CPU, it can prevent other work items from starting through concurrency management. A per-cpu workqueue which intends to host such CPU-hogging work items can choose to not participate in concurrency management by setting %WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE; however, this can be error-prone and difficult to debug when missed. This patch adds an automatic CPU usage based detection. If a concurrency-managed work item consumes more CPU time than the threshold (10ms by default) continuously without intervening sleeps, wq_worker_tick() which is called from scheduler_tick() will detect the condition and automatically mark it CPU_INTENSIVE. The mechanism isn't foolproof: * Detection depends on tick hitting the work item. Getting preempted at the right timings may allow a violating work item to evade detection at least temporarily. * nohz_full CPUs may not be running ticks and thus can fail detection. * Even when detection is working, the 10ms detection delays can add up if many CPU-hogging work items are queued at the same time. However, in vast majority of cases, this should be able to detect violations reliably and provide reasonable protection with a small increase in code complexity. If some work items trigger this condition repeatedly, the bigger problem likely is the CPU being saturated with such per-cpu work items and the solution would be making them UNBOUND. The next patch will add a debug mechanism to help spot such cases. v4: Documentation for workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us added to kernel-parameters.txt. v3: Switch to use wq_worker_tick() instead of hooking into preemptions as suggested by Peter. v2: Lai pointed out that wq_worker_stopping() also needs to be called from preemption and rtlock paths and an earlier patch was updated accordingly. This patch adds a comment describing the risk of infinte recursions and how they're avoided. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Lai Jiangshan --- kernel/sched/core.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/sched') diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 944c3ae39861..3484cada9a4a 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -5632,6 +5632,9 @@ void scheduler_tick(void) perf_event_task_tick(); + if (curr->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER) + wq_worker_tick(curr); + #ifdef CONFIG_SMP rq->idle_balance = idle_cpu(cpu); trigger_load_balance(rq); -- cgit v1.2.3