summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/kernel/sched.c
Commit message (Collapse)AuthorAgeFilesLines
* kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/*Harvey Harrison2008-02-081-8/+8
| | | | | | | | [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'task_killable' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-02-011-10/+18
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc * 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc: (22 commits) Remove commented-out code copied from NFS NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLE Add wait_for_completion_killable Add wait_event_killable Add schedule_timeout_killable Use mutex_lock_killable in vfs_readdir Add mutex_lock_killable Use lock_page_killable Add lock_page_killable Add fatal_signal_pending Add TASK_WAKEKILL exit: Use task_is_* signal: Use task_is_* sched: Use task_contributes_to_load, TASK_ALL and TASK_NORMAL ptrace: Use task_is_* power: Use task_is_* wait: Use TASK_NORMAL proc/base.c: Use task_is_* proc/array.c: Use TASK_REPORT perfmon: Use task_is_* ... Fixed up conflicts in NFS/sunrpc manually..
| * Add wait_for_completion_killableMatthew Wilcox2007-12-061-2/+13
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
| * sched: Use task_contributes_to_load, TASK_ALL and TASK_NORMALMatthew Wilcox2007-12-061-8/+5
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
* | sched: remove unused paramsGerald Stralko2008-01-311-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes the extra struct task_struct *p parameter in inc_nr_running and dec_nr_running functions. Signed-off by: Jerry Stralko <gerb.stralko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | spinlock: lockbreak cleanupNick Piggin2008-01-301-10/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The break_lock data structure and code for spinlocks is quite nasty. Not only does it double the size of a spinlock but it changes locking to a potentially less optimal trylock. Put all of that under CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK, and introduce a __raw_spin_is_contended that uses the lock data itself to determine whether there are waiters on the lock, to be used if CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK is not set. Rename need_lockbreak to spin_needbreak, make it use spin_is_contended to decouple it from the spinlock implementation, and make it typesafe (rwlocks do not have any need_lockbreak sites -- why do they even get bloated up with that break_lock then?). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | sched: print backtrace of running tasks tooNick Piggin2008-01-251-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The attached patch is something really simple that can sometimes help in getting more info out of a hung system. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: monitor clock underflows in /proc/sched_debugGuillaume Chazarain2008-01-251-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | We monitor clock overflows, let's also monitor clock underflows. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: fix rq->clock warps on frequency changesGuillaume Chazarain2008-01-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sched: fix rq->clock warps on frequency changes Fix 2bacec8c318ca0418c0ee9ac662ee44207765dd4 (sched: touch softlockup watchdog after idling) that reintroduced warps on frequency changes. touch_softlockup_watchdog() calls __update_rq_clock that checks rq->clock for warps, so call it after adjusting rq->clock. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: remove the !PREEMPT_BKL codeIngo Molnar2008-01-251-16/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code. this removes 160 lines of legacy code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: rt throttling vs no_hzPeter Zijlstra2008-01-251-1/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need to teach no_hz about the rt throttling because its tick driven. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: rt group schedulingPeter Zijlstra2008-01-251-83/+200
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extend group scheduling to also cover the realtime classes. It uses the time limiting introduced by the previous patch to allow multiple realtime groups. The hard time limit is required to keep behaviour deterministic. The algorithms used make the realtime scheduler O(tg), linear scaling wrt the number of task groups. This is the worst case behaviour I can't seem to get out of, the avg. case of the algorithms can be improved, I focused on correctness and worst case. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: move side-effects out of BUG_ON(). ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: rt time limitPeter Zijlstra2008-01-251-20/+50
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Very simple time limit on the realtime scheduling classes. Allow the rq's realtime class to consume sched_rt_ratio of every sched_rt_period slice. If the class exceeds this quota the fair class will preempt the realtime class. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: high-res preemption tickPeter Zijlstra2008-01-251-11/+199
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use HR-timers (when available) to deliver an accurate preemption tick. The regular scheduler tick that runs at 1/HZ can be too coarse when nice level are used. The fairness system will still keep the cpu utilisation 'fair' by then delaying the task that got an excessive amount of CPU time but try to minimize this by delivering preemption points spot-on. The average frequency of this extra interrupt is sched_latency / nr_latency. Which need not be higher than 1/HZ, its just that the distribution within the sched_latency period is important. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: do not do cond_resched() when CONFIG_PREEMPTHerbert Xu2008-01-251-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Why do we even have cond_resched when real preemption is on? It seems to be a waste of space and time. remove cond_resched with CONFIG_PREEMPT on. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: documentation, whitespace fixesIngo Molnar2008-01-251-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | whitespace fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: sched_rt_entityPeter Zijlstra2008-01-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the task_struct members specific to rt scheduling together. A future optimization could be to put sched_entity and sched_rt_entity into a union. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: dynamically update the root-domain span/online mapsGregory Haskins2008-01-251-12/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The baseline code statically builds the span maps when the domain is formed. Previous attempts at dynamically updating the maps caused a suspend-to-ram regression, which should now be fixed. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> CC: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: RT-balance, add new methods to sched_classSteven Rostedt2008-01-251-22/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dmitry Adamushko found that the current implementation of the RT balancing code left out changes to the sched_setscheduler and rt_mutex_setprio. This patch addresses this issue by adding methods to the schedule classes to handle being switched out of (switched_from) and being switched into (switched_to) a sched_class. Also a method for changing of priorities is also added (prio_changed). This patch also removes some duplicate logic between rt_mutex_setprio and sched_setscheduler. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: RT-balance, replace hooks with pre/post schedule and wakeup methodsSteven Rostedt2008-01-251-4/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To make the main sched.c code more agnostic to the schedule classes. Instead of having specific hooks in the schedule code for the RT class balancing. They are replaced with a pre_schedule, post_schedule and task_wake_up methods. These methods may be used by any of the classes but currently, only the sched_rt class implements them. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: get rid of 'new_cpu' in try_to_wake_up()Dmitry Adamushko2008-01-251-8/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean-up try_to_wake_up(). Get rid of the 'new_cpu' variable in try_to_wake_up() [ that's, one #ifdef section less ]. Also remove a few redundant blank lines. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: add credits for RT balancing improvementsIngo Molnar2008-01-251-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | add credits for RT balancing improvements. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: style cleanup, #2Ingo Molnar2008-01-251-15/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | style cleanup of various changes that were done recently. no code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 26399 2578 48 29025 7161 sched.o.before 26399 2578 48 29025 7161 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: remove unused JIFFIES_TO_NS() macroIngo Molnar2008-01-251-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | remove unused JIFFIES_TO_NS() macro. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: only balance our RT tasks within our domainGregory Haskins2008-01-251-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We move the rt-overload data as the first global to per-domain reclassification. This limits the scope of overload related cache-line bouncing to stay with a specified partition instead of affecting all cpus in the system. Finally, we limit the scope of find_lowest_cpu searches to the domain instead of the entire system. Note that we would always respect domain boundaries even without this patch, but we first would scan potentially all cpus before whittling the list down. Now we can avoid looking at RQs that are out of scope, again reducing cache-line hits. Note: In some cases, task->cpus_allowed will effectively reduce our search to within our domain. However, I believe there are cases where the cpus_allowed mask may be all ones and therefore we err on the side of caution. If it can be optimized later, so be it. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: add sched-domain rootsGregory Haskins2008-01-251-3/+118
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We add the notion of a root-domain which will be used later to rescope global variables to per-domain variables. Each exclusive cpuset essentially defines an island domain by fully partitioning the member cpus from any other cpuset. However, we currently still maintain some policy/state as global variables which transcend all cpusets. Consider, for instance, rt-overload state. Whenever a new exclusive cpuset is created, we also create a new root-domain object and move each cpu member to the root-domain's span. By default the system creates a single root-domain with all cpus as members (mimicking the global state we have today). We add some plumbing for storing class specific data in our root-domain. Whenever a RQ is switching root-domains (because of repartitioning) we give each sched_class the opportunity to remove any state from its old domain and add state to the new one. This logic doesn't have any clients yet but it will later in the series. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> CC: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> CC: Simon Derr <simon.derr@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: RT-balance on new taskSteven Rostedt2008-01-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | rt-balance when creating new tasks. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: wake-balance fixesGregory Haskins2008-01-251-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have logic to detect whether the system has migratable tasks, but we are not using it when deciding whether to push tasks away. So we add support for considering this new information. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: de-SCHED_OTHER-ize the RT pathGregory Haskins2008-01-251-140/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current wake-up code path tries to determine if it can optimize the wake-up to "this_cpu" by computing load calculations. The problem is that these calculations are only relevant to SCHED_OTHER tasks where load is king. For RT tasks, priority is king. So the load calculation is completely wasted bandwidth. Therefore, we create a new sched_class interface to help with pre-wakeup routing decisions and move the load calculation as a function of CFS task's class. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: add RT-balance cpu-weightGregory Haskins2008-01-251-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some RT tasks (particularly kthreads) are bound to one specific CPU. It is fairly common for two or more bound tasks to get queued up at the same time. Consider, for instance, softirq_timer and softirq_sched. A timer goes off in an ISR which schedules softirq_thread to run at RT50. Then the timer handler determines that it's time to smp-rebalance the system so it schedules softirq_sched to run. So we are in a situation where we have two RT50 tasks queued, and the system will go into rt-overload condition to request other CPUs for help. This causes two problems in the current code: 1) If a high-priority bound task and a low-priority unbounded task queue up behind the running task, we will fail to ever relocate the unbounded task because we terminate the search on the first unmovable task. 2) We spend precious futile cycles in the fast-path trying to pull overloaded tasks over. It is therefore optimial to strive to avoid the overhead all together if we can cheaply detect the condition before overload even occurs. This patch tries to achieve this optimization by utilizing the hamming weight of the task->cpus_allowed mask. A weight of 1 indicates that the task cannot be migrated. We will then utilize this information to skip non-migratable tasks and to eliminate uncessary rebalance attempts. We introduce a per-rq variable to count the number of migratable tasks that are currently running. We only go into overload if we have more than one rt task, AND at least one of them is migratable. In addition, we introduce a per-task variable to cache the cpus_allowed weight, since the hamming calculation is probably relatively expensive. We only update the cached value when the mask is updated which should be relatively infrequent, especially compared to scheduling frequency in the fast path. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: push RT tasks from overloaded CPUsSteven Rostedt2008-01-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds pushing of overloaded RT tasks from a runqueue that is having tasks (most likely RT tasks) added to the run queue. TODO: We don't cover the case of waking of new RT tasks (yet). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: pull RT tasks from overloaded runqueuesSteven Rostedt2008-01-251-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the algorithm to pull tasks from RT overloaded runqueues. When a pull RT is initiated, all overloaded runqueues are examined for a RT task that is higher in prio than the highest prio task queued on the target runqueue. If another runqueue holds a RT task that is of higher prio than the highest prio task on the target runqueue is found it is pulled to the target runqueue. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: add RT task pushingSteven Rostedt2008-01-251-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds an algorithm to push extra RT tasks off a run queue to other CPU runqueues. When more than one RT task is added to a run queue, this algorithm takes an assertive approach to push the RT tasks that are not running onto other run queues that have lower priority. The way this works is that the highest RT task that is not running is looked at and we examine the runqueues on the CPUS for that tasks affinity mask. We find the runqueue with the lowest prio in the CPU affinity of the picked task, and if it is lower in prio than the picked task, we push the task onto that CPU runqueue. We continue pushing RT tasks off the current runqueue until we don't push any more. The algorithm stops when the next highest RT task can't preempt any other processes on other CPUS. TODO: The algorithm may stop when there are still RT tasks that can be migrated. Specifically, if the highest non running RT task CPU affinity is restricted to CPUs that are running higher priority tasks, there may be a lower priority task queued that has an affinity with a CPU that is running a lower priority task that it could be migrated to. This patch set does not address this issue. Note: checkpatch reveals two over 80 character instances. I'm not sure that breaking them up will help visually, so I left them as is. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: track highest prio task queuedSteven Rostedt2008-01-251-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds accounting to each runqueue to keep track of the highest prio task queued on the run queue. We only care about RT tasks, so if the run queue does not contain any active RT tasks its priority will be considered MAX_RT_PRIO. This information will be used for later patches. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: count # of queued RT tasksSteven Rostedt2008-01-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds accounting to keep track of the number of RT tasks running on a runqueue. This information will be used in later patches. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | softlockup: automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasksIngo Molnar2008-01-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | this patch extends the soft-lockup detector to automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks. Such hung tasks are printed the following way: ------------------> INFO: task prctl:3042 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message prctl D fd5e3793 0 3042 2997 f6050f38 00000046 00000001 fd5e3793 00000009 c06d8264 c06dae80 00000286 f6050f40 f6050f00 f7d34d90 f7d34fc8 c1e1be80 00000001 f6050000 00000000 f7e92d00 00000286 f6050f18 c0489d1a f6050f40 00006605 00000000 c0133a5b Call Trace: [<c04883a5>] schedule_timeout+0x6d/0x8b [<c04883d8>] schedule_timeout_uninterruptible+0x15/0x17 [<c0133a76>] msleep+0x10/0x16 [<c0138974>] sys_prctl+0x30/0x1e2 [<c0104c52>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0xa5 ======================= 2 locks held by prctl/3042: #0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#5){--..}, at: [<c0197d11>] do_fsync+0x38/0x7a #1: (jbd_handle){--..}, at: [<c01ca3d2>] journal_start+0xc7/0xe9 <------------------ the current default timeout is 120 seconds. Such messages are printed up to 10 times per bootup. If the system has crashed already then the messages are not printed. if lockdep is enabled then all held locks are printed as well. this feature is a natural extension to the softlockup-detector (kernel locked up without scheduling) and to the NMI watchdog (kernel locked up with IRQs disabled). [ Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>: CPU hotplug fixes. ] [ Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: build warning fix. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
* | cpu-hotplug: replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus()Gautham R Shenoy2008-01-251-16/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch converts the known per-subsystem mutexes to get_online_cpus put_online_cpus. It also eliminates the CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE and CPU_LOCK_RELEASE hotplug notification events. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus()Gautham R Shenoy2008-01-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace all lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug from the kernel and use get_online_cpus and put_online_cpus instead as it highlights the refcount semantics in these operations. The new API guarantees protection against the cpu-hotplug operation, but it doesn't guarantee serialized access to any of the local data structures. Hence the changes needs to be reviewed. In case of pseries_add_processor/pseries_remove_processor, use cpu_maps_update_begin()/cpu_maps_update_done() as we're modifying the cpu_present_map there. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: group scheduler, fix fairness of cpu bandwidth allocation for task groupsSrivatsa Vaddagiri2008-01-251-14/+256
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current load balancing scheme isn't good enough for precise group fairness. For example: on a 8-cpu system, I created 3 groups as under: a = 8 tasks (cpu.shares = 1024) b = 4 tasks (cpu.shares = 1024) c = 3 tasks (cpu.shares = 1024) a, b and c are task groups that have equal weight. We would expect each of the groups to receive 33.33% of cpu bandwidth under a fair scheduler. This is what I get with the latest scheduler git tree: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Col1 | Col2 | Col3 | Col4 ------|---------|-------|------------------------------------------------------- a | 277.676 | 57.8% | 54.1% 54.1% 54.1% 54.2% 56.7% 62.2% 62.8% 64.5% b | 116.108 | 24.2% | 47.4% 48.1% 48.7% 49.3% c | 86.326 | 18.0% | 47.5% 47.9% 48.5% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Explanation of o/p: Col1 -> Group name Col2 -> Cumulative execution time (in seconds) received by all tasks of that group in a 60sec window across 8 cpus Col3 -> CPU bandwidth received by the group in the 60sec window, expressed in percentage. Col3 data is derived as: Col3 = 100 * Col2 / (NR_CPUS * 60) Col4 -> CPU bandwidth received by each individual task of the group. Col4 = 100 * cpu_time_recd_by_task / 60 [I can share the test case that produces a similar o/p if reqd] The deviation from desired group fairness is as below: a = +24.47% b = -9.13% c = -15.33% which is quite high. After the patch below is applied, here are the results: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Col1 | Col2 | Col3 | Col4 ------|---------|-------|------------------------------------------------------- a | 163.112 | 34.0% | 33.2% 33.4% 33.5% 33.5% 33.7% 34.4% 34.8% 35.3% b | 156.220 | 32.5% | 63.3% 64.5% 66.1% 66.5% c | 160.653 | 33.5% | 85.8% 90.6% 91.4% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deviation from desired group fairness is as below: a = +0.67% b = -0.83% c = +0.17% which is far better IMO. Most of other runs have yielded a deviation within +-2% at the most, which is good. Why do we see bad (group) fairness with current scheuler? ========================================================= Currently cpu's weight is just the summation of individual task weights. This can yield incorrect results. For ex: consider three groups as below on a 2-cpu system: CPU0 CPU1 --------------------------- A (10) B(5) C(5) --------------------------- Group A has 10 tasks, all on CPU0, Group B and C have 5 tasks each all of which are on CPU1. Each task has the same weight (NICE_0_LOAD = 1024). The current scheme would yield a cpu weight of 10240 (10*1024) for each cpu and the load balancer will think both CPUs are perfectly balanced and won't move around any tasks. This, however, would yield this bandwidth: A = 50% B = 25% C = 25% which is not the desired result. What's changing in the patch? ============================= - How cpu weights are calculated when CONFIF_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is defined (see below) - API Change - Two tunables introduced in sysfs (under SCHED_DEBUG) to control the frequency at which the load balance monitor thread runs. The basic change made in this patch is how cpu weight (rq->load.weight) is calculated. Its now calculated as the summation of group weights on a cpu, rather than summation of task weights. Weight exerted by a group on a cpu is dependent on the shares allocated to it and also the number of tasks the group has on that cpu compared to the total number of (runnable) tasks the group has in the system. Let, W(K,i) = Weight of group K on cpu i T(K,i) = Task load present in group K's cfs_rq on cpu i T(K) = Total task load of group K across various cpus S(K) = Shares allocated to group K NRCPUS = Number of online cpus in the scheduler domain to which group K is assigned. Then, W(K,i) = S(K) * NRCPUS * T(K,i) / T(K) A load balance monitor thread is created at bootup, which periodically runs and adjusts group's weight on each cpu. To avoid its overhead, two min/max tunables are introduced (under SCHED_DEBUG) to control the rate at which it runs. Fixes from: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> - don't start the load_balance_monitor when there is only a single cpu. - rename the kthread because its currently longer than TASK_COMM_LEN Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: introduce a mutex and corresponding API to serialize access to ↵Srivatsa Vaddagiri2008-01-251-0/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | doms_curarray doms_cur[] array represents various scheduling domains which are mutually exclusive. Currently cpusets code can modify this array (by calling partition_sched_domains()) as a result of user modifying sched_load_balance flag for various cpusets. This patch introduces a mutex and corresponding API (only when CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is defined) which allows a reader to safely read the doms_cur[] array w/o worrying abt concurrent modifications to the array. The fair group scheduler code (introduced in next patch of this series) makes use of this mutex to walk thr' doms_cur[] array while rebalancing shares of task groups across cpus. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: group scheduling, change how cpu load is calculatedSrivatsa Vaddagiri2008-01-251-16/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes how the cpu load exerted by fair_sched_class tasks is calculated. Load exerted by fair_sched_class tasks on a cpu is now a summation of the group weights, rather than summation of task weights. Weight exerted by a group on a cpu is dependent on the shares allocated to it. This version of patch has a minor impact on code size, but should have no runtime/functional impact for !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: group scheduling, minor fixesSrivatsa Vaddagiri2008-01-251-8/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Minor bug fixes for the group scheduler: - Use a mutex to serialize add/remove of task groups and also when changing shares of a task group. Use the same mutex when printing cfs_rq debugging stats for various task groups. - Use list_for_each_entry_rcu in for_each_leaf_cfs_rq macro (when walking task group list) Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: group scheduling code cleanupSrivatsa Vaddagiri2008-01-251-18/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Minor cleanups: - Fix coding style - remove obsolete comment Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: group scheduler, set uid share fixIngo Molnar2008-01-221-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | setting cpu share to 1 causes hangs, as reported in: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9779 as the default share is 1024, the values of 0 and 1 can indeed cause problems. Limit it to 2 or higher values. These values can only be set by the root user - but still it makes sense to protect against nonsensical values. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | show_task: real_parentRoland McGrath2008-01-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The show_task function invoked by sysrq-t et al displays the pid and parent's pid of each task. It seems more useful to show the actual process hierarchy here than who is using ptrace on each process. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | sched: touch softlockup watchdog after idlingIngo Molnar2007-12-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | touch softlockup watchdog after idling. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: fix crash on ia64, introduce task_current()Dmitry Adamushko2007-12-181-6/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some services (e.g. sched_setscheduler(), rt_mutex_setprio() and sched_move_task()) must handle a given task differently in case it's the 'rq->curr' task on its run-queue. The task_running() interface is not suitable for determining such tasks for platforms with one of the following options: #define __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW #define __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW Due to the fact that it makes use of 'p->oncpu == 1' as a criterion but such a task is not necessarily 'rq->curr'. The detailed explanation is available here: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2007-December/009262.html Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
* | sched: enable early use of sched_clock()Ingo Molnar2007-12-071-1/+6
|/ | | | | | | | | | some platforms have sched_clock() implementations that cannot be called very early during wakeup. If it's called it might hang or crash in hard to debug ways. So only call update_rq_clock() [which calls sched_clock()] if sched_init() has already been called. (rq->idle is NULL before the scheduler is initialized.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: style cleanupsIngo Molnar2007-12-051-64/+68
| | | | | | | | | | | | style cleanup of various changes that were done recently. no code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 23680 2542 28 26250 668a sched.o.before 23680 2542 28 26250 668a sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: fix crash in sys_sched_rr_get_interval()Ingo Molnar2007-12-041-5/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino reported that sched_rr_get_interval() crashes for SCHED_OTHER tasks that are on an idle runqueue. The fix is to return a 0 timeslice for tasks that are on an idle runqueue. (and which are not running, obviously) this also shrinks the code a bit: text data bss dec hex filename 47903 3934 336 52173 cbcd sched.o.before 47885 3934 336 52155 cbbb sched.o.after Reported-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
OpenPOWER on IntegriCloud