From bcb7ee79029dcaeb09668a4d1489de256829a7cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Vyukov Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:30:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] posix-timers: Prefer delivery of signals to the current thread POSIX timers using the CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID clock prefer the main thread of a thread group for signal delivery. However, this has a significant downside: it requires waking up a potentially idle thread. Instead, prefer to deliver signals to the current thread (in the same thread group) if SIGEV_THREAD_ID is not set by the user. This does not change guaranteed semantics, since POSIX process CPU time timers have never guaranteed that signal delivery is to a specific thread (without SIGEV_THREAD_ID set). The effect is that queueing the signal no longer wakes up potentially idle threads, and the kernel is no longer biased towards delivering the timer signal to any particular thread (which better distributes the timer signals esp. when multiple timers fire concurrently). Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov Signed-off-by: Marco Elver Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230316123028.2890338-1-elver@google.com --- kernel/signal.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 8cb28f1..8f6330f 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1003,8 +1003,7 @@ static void complete_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p, enum pid_type type) /* * Now find a thread we can wake up to take the signal off the queue. * - * If the main thread wants the signal, it gets first crack. - * Probably the least surprising to the average bear. + * Try the suggested task first (may or may not be the main thread). */ if (wants_signal(sig, p)) t = p; @@ -1970,8 +1969,24 @@ int send_sigqueue(struct sigqueue *q, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type) ret = -1; rcu_read_lock(); + + /* + * This function is used by POSIX timers to deliver a timer signal. + * Where type is PIDTYPE_PID (such as for timers with SIGEV_THREAD_ID + * set), the signal must be delivered to the specific thread (queues + * into t->pending). + * + * Where type is not PIDTYPE_PID, signals must be delivered to the + * process. In this case, prefer to deliver to current if it is in + * the same thread group as the target process, which avoids + * unnecessarily waking up a potentially idle task. + */ t = pid_task(pid, type); - if (!t || !likely(lock_task_sighand(t, &flags))) + if (!t) + goto ret; + if (type != PIDTYPE_PID && same_thread_group(t, current)) + t = current; + if (!likely(lock_task_sighand(t, &flags))) goto ret; ret = 1; /* the signal is ignored */ -- 2.7.4