Subject: sched: Disable TTWU_QUEUE on RT
From: Thomas Gleixner <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:24:27 +0200

The queued remote wakeup mechanism has turned out to be suboptimal for RT
enabled kernels. The maximum latencies go up by a factor of > 5x in certain
scenarious.

This is caused by either long wake lists or by a large number of TTWU IPIs
which are processed back to back.

Disable it for RT.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email-masked]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email-masked]
---
 kernel/sched/features.h |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
---
--- a/kernel/sched/features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/features.h
@@ -46,11 +46,16 @@ SCHED_FEAT(DOUBLE_TICK, false)
  */
 SCHED_FEAT(NONTASK_CAPACITY, true)
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+SCHED_FEAT(TTWU_QUEUE, false)
+#else
+
 /*
  * Queue remote wakeups on the target CPU and process them
  * using the scheduler IPI. Reduces rq->lock contention/bounces.
  */
 SCHED_FEAT(TTWU_QUEUE, true)
+#endif
 
 /*
  * When doing wakeups, attempt to limit superfluous scans of the LLC domain.