sched, timers: move calc_load() to scheduler

Dimitri Sivanich noticed that xtime_lock is held write locked across
calc_load() which iterates over all online CPUs. That can cause long
latencies for xtime_lock readers on large SMP systems. 

The load average calculation is an rough estimate anyway so there is
no real need to protect the readers vs. the update. It's not a problem
when the avenrun array is updated while a reader copies the values.

Instead of iterating over all online CPUs let the scheduler_tick code
update the number of active tasks shortly before the avenrun update
happens. The avenrun update itself is handled by the CPU which calls
do_timer().

[ Impact: reduce xtime_lock write locked section ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched_idletask.c b/kernel/sched_idletask.c
index 8a21a2e28c13..499672c10cbd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_idletask.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_idletask.c
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ static void check_preempt_curr_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sy
 static struct task_struct *pick_next_task_idle(struct rq *rq)
 {
 	schedstat_inc(rq, sched_goidle);
-
+	/* adjust the active tasks as we might go into a long sleep */
+	calc_load_account_active(rq);
 	return rq->idle;
 }