sched: Move psi_account_irqtime() out of update_rq_clock_task() hotpath
It was reported that in moving to 6.1, a larger then 10% regression was seen in the performance of clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID,...). Using a simple reproducer, I found: 5.10: 100000000 calls in 24345994193 ns => 243.460 ns per call 100000000 calls in 24288172050 ns => 242.882 ns per call 100000000 calls in 24289135225 ns => 242.891 ns per call 6.1: 100000000 calls in 28248646742 ns => 282.486 ns per call 100000000 calls in 28227055067 ns => 282.271 ns per call 100000000 calls in 28177471287 ns => 281.775 ns per call The cause of this was finally narrowed down to the addition of psi_account_irqtime() in update_rq_clock_task(), in commit 52b1364b ("sched/psi: Add PSI_IRQ to track IRQ/SOFTIRQ pressure"). In my initial attempt to resolve this, I leaned towards moving all accounting work out of the clock_gettime() call path, but it wasn't very pretty, so it will have to wait for a later deeper rework. Instead, Peter shared this approach: Rework psi_account_irqtime() to use its own psi_irq_time base for accounting, and move it out of the hotpath, calling it instead from sched_tick() and __schedule(). In testing this, we found the importance of ensuring psi_account_irqtime() is run under the rq_lock, which Johannes Weiner helpfully explained, so also add some lockdep annotations to make that requirement clear. With this change the performance is back in-line with 5.10: 6.1+fix: 100000000 calls in 24297324597 ns => 242.973 ns per call 100000000 calls in 24318869234 ns => 243.189 ns per call 100000000 calls in 24291564588 ns => 242.916 ns per call Reported-by: Jimmy Shiu <jimmyshiu@google.com> Originally-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240618215909.4099720-1-jstultz@google.com
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