Commit "timers: do not raise softirq unconditionally", allows for timer
wheel processing (__run_timers) to be delayed for long periods of time.
The effect is that
loops = jiffies - base->timer_jiffies
Can grow to very large values resulting in __run_timers taking hundreds
of milliseconds to execute.
Fix by creating an upper bound on the number of loops to be processed.
This allows a nohz=off kernel to achieve desired latencies.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com>
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index f59e18c..c128416 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1488,6 +1488,12 @@ void run_local_timers(void)
}
#endif
+ if (time_after_eq(jiffies, base->timer_jiffies)) {
+ unsigned long jiffies_delta = jiffies - base->timer_jiffies;
+ if (jiffies_delta > TVR_SIZE)
+ raise_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
+ }
+
if (!base->active_timers)
goto out;
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