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Ingo Molnar
50df5d6aea sched: remove sysctl_sched_batch_wakeup_granularity
it's unused.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
02e2b83bd2 sched: reenable sync wakeups
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d25ce4cd49 sched: cache hot buddy
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1fc8afa4c8 sched: feat affine wakeups
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b85d066726 sched: introduce SCHED_FEAT_SYNC_WAKEUPS, turn it off
turn off sync wakeups by default. They are not needed anymore - the
buddy logic should be smart enough to keep the system from
overscheduling.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Guillaume Chazarain
15934a3732 sched: fix rq->clock overflows detection with CONFIG_NO_HZ
When using CONFIG_NO_HZ, rq->tick_timestamp is not updated every TICK_NSEC.
We check that the number of skipped ticks matches the clock jump seen in
__update_rq_clock().

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Reynes Philippe
30914a58af sched: sched.c needs tick.h
kernel/sched.c:506: erreur: implicit declaration of function tick_get_tick_sched
kernel/sched.c:506: erreur: invalid type argument of ->
kernel/sched.c:506: erreur: NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/sched.c:506: erreur: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/sched.c:506: erreur: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
27ec440779 sched: make cpu_clock() globally synchronous
Alexey Zaytsev reported (and bisected) that the introduction of
cpu_clock() in printk made the timestamps jump back and forth.

Make cpu_clock() more reliable while still keeping it fast when it's
called frequently.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
06d8308c61 NOHZ: reevaluate idle sleep length after add_timer_on()
add_timer_on() can add a timer on a CPU which is currently in a long
idle sleep, but the timer wheel is not reevaluated by the nohz code on
that CPU. So a timer can be delayed for quite a long time. This
triggered a false positive in the clocksource watchdog code.

To avoid this we need to wake up the idle CPU and enforce the
reevaluation of the timer wheel for the next timer event.

Add a function, which checks a given CPU for idle state, marks the
idle task with NEED_RESCHED and sends a reschedule IPI to notify the
other CPU of the change in the timer wheel.

Call this function from add_timer_on().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

--
 include/linux/sched.h |    6 ++++++
 kernel/sched.c        |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/timer.c        |   10 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
2008-03-26 08:28:55 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
22e52b072d sched: add arch_update_cpu_topology hook.
Will be called each time the scheduling domains are rebuild.
Needed for architectures that don't have a static cpu topology.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-21 16:43:48 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
9aefd0abd8 sched: add exported arch_reinit_sched_domains() to header file.
Needed so it can be called from outside of sched.c.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-21 16:43:47 +01:00
Roel Kluin
23e3c3cd2e sched: remove double unlikely from schedule()
Combine two unlikely's

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-21 16:43:47 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
2070ee01d3 sched: cleanup old and rarely used 'debug' features.
TREE_AVG and APPROX_AVG are initial task placement policies that have been
disabled for a long while.. time to remove them.

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>
2008-03-21 16:43:47 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f540a6080a sched: wakeup-buddy tasks are cache-hot
Wakeup-buddy tasks are cache-hot - this makes it a bit harder
for the load-balancer to tear them apart. (but it's still possible,
if the load is sufficiently assymetric)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-19 04:27:53 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4ae7d5cefd sched: improve affine wakeups
improve affine wakeups. Maintain the 'overlap' metric based on CFS's
sum_exec_runtime - which means the amount of time a task executes
after it wakes up some other task.

Use the 'overlap' for the wakeup decisions: if the 'overlap' is short,
it means there's strong workload coupling between this task and the
woken up task. If the 'overlap' is large then the workload is decoupled
and the scheduler will move them to separate CPUs more easily.

( Also slightly move the preempt_check within try_to_wake_up() - this has
  no effect on functionality but allows 'early wakeups' (for still-on-rq
  tasks) to be correctly accounted as well.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-19 04:27:53 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
aa2ac25229 sched: fix overload performance: buddy wakeups
Currently we schedule to the leftmost task in the runqueue. When the
runtimes are very short because of some server/client ping-pong,
especially in over-saturated workloads, this will cycle through all
tasks trashing the cache.

Reduce cache trashing by keeping dependent tasks together by running
newly woken tasks first. However, by not running the leftmost task first
we could starve tasks because the wakee can gain unlimited runtime.

Therefore we only run the wakee if its within a small
(wakeup_granularity) window of the leftmost task. This preserves
fairness, but does alternate server/client task groups.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-15 03:02:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
27d1172660 sched: fix calc_delta_mine()
lw->weight can be 0 for a short time during bootup.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-03-15 03:02:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
e89996ae3f sched: fix update_load_add()/sub()
Clear the cached inverse value when updating load. This is needed for
calc_delta_mine() to work correctly when using the rq load.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-03-15 03:02:49 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
0e1f34833b sched: fix race in schedule()
Fix a hard to trigger crash seen in the -rt kernel that also affects
the vanilla scheduler.

There is a race condition between schedule() and some dequeue/enqueue
functions; rt_mutex_setprio(), __setscheduler() and sched_move_task().

When scheduling to idle, idle_balance() is called to pull tasks from
other busy processor. It might drop the rq lock. It means that those 3
functions encounter on_rq=0 and running=1. The current task should be
put when running.

Here is a possible scenario:

   CPU0                               CPU1
    |                              schedule()
    |                              ->deactivate_task()
    |                              ->idle_balance()
    |                              -->load_balance_newidle()
rt_mutex_setprio()                     |
    |                              --->double_lock_balance()
    *get lock                          *rel lock
    * on_rq=0, ruuning=1               |
    * sched_class is changed           |
    *rel lock                          *get lock
    :                                  |
                                       :
                                   ->put_prev_task_rt()
                                   ->pick_next_task_fair()
                                       => panic

The current process of CPU1(P1) is scheduling. Deactivated P1, and the
scheduler looks for another process on other CPU's runqueue because CPU1
will be idle. idle_balance(), load_balance_newidle() and
double_lock_balance() are called and double_lock_balance() could drop
the rq lock. On the other hand, CPU0 is trying to boost the priority of
P1. The result of boosting only P1's prio and sched_class are changed to
RT. The sched entities of P1 and P1's group are never put. It makes
cfs_rq invalid, because the cfs_rq has curr and no leaf, but
pick_next_task_fair() is called, then the kernel panics.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-15 03:02:49 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
08f503b0c0 keep rd->online and cpu_online_map in sync
It is possible to allow the root-domain cache of online cpus to
become out of sync with the global cpu_online_map.  This is because we
currently trigger removal of cpus too early in the notifier chain.
Other DOWN_PREPARE handlers may in fact run and reconfigure the
root-domain topology, thereby stomping on our own offline handling.

The end result is that rd->online may become out of sync with
cpu_online_map, which results in potential task misrouting.

So change the offline handling to be more tightly coupled with the
global offline process by triggering on CPU_DYING intead of
CPU_DOWN_PREPARE.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-11 14:02:58 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
1f94ef598e Revert "cpu hotplug: adjust root-domain->online span in response to hotplug event"
This reverts commit 393d94d98b.

Lets fix this right.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-11 14:02:58 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
393d94d98b cpu hotplug: adjust root-domain->online span in response to hotplug event
We currently set the root-domain online span automatically when the
domain is added to the cpu if the cpu is already a member of
cpu_online_map.

This was done as a hack/bug-fix for s2ram, but it also causes a problem
with hotplug CPU_DOWN transitioning.  The right way to fix the original
problem is to actually respond to CPU_UP events, instead of CPU_ONLINE,
which is already too late.

This solves the hung reboot regression reported by Andrew Morton and
others.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-09 10:05:14 -07:00
Dhaval Giani
521f1a2489 sched: don't allow rt_runtime_us to be zero for groups having rt tasks
This patch checks if we can set the rt_runtime_us to 0. If there is a
realtime task in the group, we don't want to set the rt_runtime_us as 0
or bad things will happen. (that task wont get any CPU time despite
being TASK_RUNNNG)

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-07 16:43:00 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
2692a2406b sched: rt-group: fixup schedulability constraints calculation
it was only possible to configure the rt-group scheduling parameters
beyond the default value in a very small range.

that's because div64_64() has a different calling convention than
do_div() :/

fix a few untidies while we are here; sysctl_sched_rt_period may overflow
due to that multiplication, so cast to u64 first. Also that RUNTIME_INF
juggling makes little sense although its an effective NOP.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-07 16:43:00 +01:00
Miao Xie
1868f958eb sched: fix the wrong time slice value for SCHED_FIFO tasks
Function sys_sched_rr_get_interval returns wrong time slice value for
SCHED_FIFO tasks. The time slice for SCHED_FIFO tasks should be 0.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-07 16:43:00 +01:00
Pavel Roskin
150d8bede7 sched: export task_nice
The API is trivial, and so is the implementation.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-07 16:43:00 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
810b38179e sched: retain vruntime
Kei Tokunaga reported an interactivity problem when moving tasks
between control groups.

Tasks would retain their old vruntime when moved between groups, this
can cause funny lags. Re-set the vruntime on group move to fit within
the new tree.

Reported-by: Kei Tokunaga <tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-07 16:42:59 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
62fb185130 sched: revert load_balance_monitor() changes
The following commits cause a number of regressions:

  commit 58e2d4ca58
  Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
  Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100
  sched: group scheduling, change how cpu load is calculated

  commit 6b2d770026
  Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
  Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100
  sched: group scheduler, fix fairness of cpu bandwidth allocation for task groups

Namely:
 - very frequent wakeups on SMP, reported by PowerTop users.
 - cacheline trashing on (large) SMP
 - some latencies larger than 500ms

While there is a mergeable patch to fix the latter, the former issues
are not fixable in a manner suitable for .25 (we're at -rc3 now).

Hence we revert them and try again in v2.6.26.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-04 17:54:06 +01:00
Harvey Harrison
67ca7bde2e sched: fix signedness warnings in sched.c
Unsigned long values are always assigned to switch_count,
make it unsigned long.

kernel/sched.c:3897:15: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different signedness)
kernel/sched.c:3897:15:    expected long *switch_count
kernel/sched.c:3897:15:    got unsigned long *<noident>
kernel/sched.c:3921:16: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different signedness)
kernel/sched.c:3921:16:    expected long *switch_count
kernel/sched.c:3921:16:    got unsigned long *<noident>

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-25 16:34:17 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6892b75e60 sched: make early bootup sched_clock() use safer
do not call sched_clock() too early. Not only might rq->idle
not be set up - but pure per-cpu data might not be accessible
either.

this solves an ia64 early bootup hang with CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y.

Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-25 16:34:16 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
04e2f1741d Add memory barrier semantics to wake_up() & co
Oleg Nesterov and others have pointed out that on some architectures,
the traditional sequence of

	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
	if (CONDITION)
		return;
	schedule();

is racy wrt another CPU doing

	CONDITION = 1;
	wake_up_process(p);

because while set_current_state() has a memory barrier separating
setting of the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state from reading of the CONDITION
variable, there is no such memory barrier on the wakeup side.

Now, wake_up_process() does actually take a spinlock before it reads and
sets the task state on the waking side, and on x86 (and many other
architectures) that spinlock is in fact equivalent to a memory barrier,
but that is not generally guaranteed.  The write that sets CONDITION
could move into the critical region protected by the runqueue spinlock.

However, adding a smp_wmb() to before the spinlock should now order the
writing of CONDITION wrt the lock itself, which in turn is ordered wrt
the accesses within the spinlock (which includes the reading of the old
state).

This should thus close the race (which probably has never been seen in
practice, but since smp_wmb() is a no-op on x86, it's not like this will
make anything worse either on the most common architecture where the
spinlock already gave the required protection).

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-23 18:05:03 -08:00
Srinivasa Ds
4362758279 kprobes: refuse kprobe insertion on add/sub_preempt_counter()
Kprobes makes use of preempt_disable(),preempt_enable_noresched() and these
functions inturn call add/sub_preempt_count().  So we need to refuse user from
inserting probe in to these functions.

This patch disallows user from probing add/sub_preempt_count().

Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-23 17:13:24 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
b68aa2300c sched: rt-group: refure unrunnable tasks
Refuse to accept or create RT tasks in groups that can't run them.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:40 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
bccbe08a60 sched: rt-group: clean up the ifdeffery
Clean up some of the excessive ifdeffery introduces in the last patch.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:40 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
052f1dc7eb sched: rt-group: make rt groups scheduling configurable
Make the rt group scheduler compile time configurable.
Keep it experimental for now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:40 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
9f0c1e560c sched: rt-group: interface
Change the rt_ratio interface to rt_runtime_us, to match rt_period_us.
This avoids picking a granularity for the ratio.

Extend the /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/ interface to allow setting
the group's rt_runtime.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
23b0fdfc92 sched: rt-group: deal with PI
Steven mentioned the fun case where a lock holding task will be throttled.

Simple fix: allow groups that have boosted tasks to run anyway.

If a runnable task in a throttled group gets boosted the dequeue/enqueue
done by rt_mutex_setprio() is enough to unthrottle the group.

This is ofcourse not quite correct. Two possible ways forward are:
  - second prio array for boosted tasks
  - boost to a prio ceiling (this would also work for deadline scheduling)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
4cf5d77a6e sched: fix incorrect irq lock usage in normalize_rt_tasks()
lockdep spotted this bogus irq locking. normalize_rt_tasks() can be called
from hardirq context through sysrq-n

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
8ed3699682 sched: fair-group: separate tg->shares from task_group_lock
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:09 +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
> at /home/den/src/linux-netns26/kernel/mutex.c:209
> in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> no locks held by swapper/0.
> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24 #304
>
> Call Trace:
>  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff80252d1e>] ? __debug_show_held_locks+0x15/0x27
>  [<ffffffff8022c2a8>] __might_sleep+0xc0/0xdf
>  [<ffffffff8049f1df>] mutex_lock_nested+0x28/0x2a9
>  [<ffffffff80231294>] sched_destroy_group+0x18/0xea
>  [<ffffffff8023e835>] sched_destroy_user+0xd/0xf
>  [<ffffffff8023e8c1>] free_uid+0x8a/0xab
>  [<ffffffff80233e24>] __put_task_struct+0x3f/0xd3
>  [<ffffffff80236708>] delayed_put_task_struct+0x23/0x25
>  [<ffffffff8026fda7>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x8d/0x215
>  [<ffffffff8026ff52>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x23/0x44
>  [<ffffffff8023a2ae>] __do_softirq+0x79/0xf8
>  [<ffffffff8020f8c3>] ? profile_pc+0x2a/0x67
>  [<ffffffff8020d38c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
>  [<ffffffff8020f689>] do_softirq+0x61/0x9c
>  [<ffffffff8023a233>] irq_exit+0x51/0x53
>  [<ffffffff8021bd1a>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x77/0xad
>  [<ffffffff8020ce3b>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x70
>  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8020b0dd>] ? default_idle+0x43/0x76
>  [<ffffffff8020b0db>] ? default_idle+0x41/0x76
>  [<ffffffff8020b09a>] ? default_idle+0x0/0x76
>  [<ffffffff8020b186>] ? cpu_idle+0x76/0x98

separate the tg->shares protection from the task_group lock.

Reported-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:39 +01:00
Harvey Harrison
7ad5b3a505 kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/*
[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>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
75659ca0c1 Merge branch 'task_killable' of 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..
2008-02-01 11:45:47 +11:00
Gerald Stralko
5aff0531ee sched: remove unused params
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>
2008-01-31 22:45:23 +01:00
Nick Piggin
95c354fe9f spinlock: lockbreak cleanup
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>
2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
Nick Piggin
5fb5e6de55 sched: print backtrace of running tasks too
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
Guillaume Chazarain
cc203d2422 sched: monitor clock underflows in /proc/sched_debug
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
Guillaume Chazarain
782daeee3d sched: fix rq->clock warps on frequency changes
sched: fix rq->clock warps on frequency changes

Fix 2bacec8c31
(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>
2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6478d8800b sched: remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code
remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code.

this removes 160 lines of legacy code.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
48d5e25821 sched: rt throttling vs no_hz
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:31 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
6f505b1642 sched: rt group scheduling
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:30 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
fa85ae2418 sched: rt time limit
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
8f4d37ec07 sched: high-res preemption tick
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
Herbert Xu
02b67cc3ba sched: do not do cond_resched() when CONFIG_PREEMPT
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:28 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
03319ec8b0 sched: documentation, whitespace fixes
whitespace fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:28 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
fa717060f1 sched: sched_rt_entity
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:27 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
dc938520d2 sched: dynamically update the root-domain span/online maps
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:26 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
cb46984504 sched: RT-balance, add new methods to sched_class
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:22 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
9a897c5a67 sched: RT-balance, replace hooks with pre/post schedule and wakeup methods
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:22 +01:00
Dmitry Adamushko
5d2f5a616d sched: get rid of 'new_cpu' in try_to_wake_up()
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b913176917 sched: add credits for RT balancing improvements
add credits for RT balancing improvements.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0eab914657 sched: style cleanup, #2
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d7876a08db sched: remove unused JIFFIES_TO_NS() macro
remove unused JIFFIES_TO_NS() macro.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:19 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
637f50851b sched: only balance our RT tasks within our domain
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:18 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
57d885fea0 sched: add sched-domain roots
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:18 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
0d1311a536 sched: RT-balance on new task
rt-balance when creating new tasks.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:14 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
a22d7fc187 sched: wake-balance fixes
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:12 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
e7693a362e sched: de-SCHED_OTHER-ize the RT path
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:09 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
73fe6aae84 sched: add RT-balance cpu-weight
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:07 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
4642dafdf9 sched: push RT tasks from overloaded CPUs
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:07 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
f65eda4f78 sched: pull RT tasks from overloaded runqueues
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:07 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
e8fa136262 sched: add RT task pushing
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:05 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
764a9d6fe4 sched: track highest prio task queued
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:04 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
63489e45e2 sched: count # of queued RT tasks
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:03 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
82a1fcb902 softlockup: automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy
95402b3829 cpu-hotplug: replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus()
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy
86ef5c9a8e cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus()
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
6b2d770026 sched: group scheduler, fix fairness of cpu bandwidth allocation for task groups
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:00 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
a183561567 sched: introduce a mutex and corresponding API to serialize access to 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>
2008-01-25 21:08:00 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
58e2d4ca58 sched: group scheduling, change how cpu load is calculated
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>
2008-01-25 21:08:00 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
ec2c507fe8 sched: group scheduling, minor fixes
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>
2008-01-25 21:07:59 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
93f992ccc0 sched: group scheduling code cleanup
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>
2008-01-25 21:07:59 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
c61935fd0e sched: group scheduler, set uid share fix
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>
2008-01-22 11:24:58 +01:00
Roland McGrath
fcfd50afb6 show_task: real_parent
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>
2008-01-09 08:03:58 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
2bacec8c31 sched: touch softlockup watchdog after idling
touch softlockup watchdog after idling.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18 15:21:13 +01:00
Dmitry Adamushko
051a1d1afa sched: fix crash on ia64, introduce task_current()
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>
2007-12-18 15:21:13 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8ced5f69e4 sched: enable early use of sched_clock()
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>
2007-12-07 19:02:47 +01:00
Matthew Wilcox
009e577e07 Add wait_for_completion_killable
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:40:19 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
d9514f6c6b sched: Use task_contributes_to_load, TASK_ALL and TASK_NORMAL
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:34:59 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
41a2d6cfa3 sched: style cleanups
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>
2007-12-05 15:46:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
77034937dc sched: fix crash in sys_sched_rr_get_interval()
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>
2007-12-04 17:04:39 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
d842de871c sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)
Commit cfb5285660 removed a useful feature for
us, which provided a cpu accounting resource controller.  This feature would be
useful if someone wants to group tasks only for accounting purpose and doesnt
really want to exercise any control over their cpu consumption.

The patch below reintroduces the feature. It is based on Paul Menage's
original patch (Commit 62d0df6406), with
these differences:

        - Removed load average information. I felt it needs more thought (esp
	  to deal with SMP and virtualized platforms) and can be added for
	  2.6.25 after more discussions.
        - Convert group cpu usage to be nanosecond accurate (as rest of the cfs
	  stats are) and invoke cpuacct_charge() from the respective scheduler
	  classes
	- Make accounting scalable on SMP systems by splitting the usage
	  counter to be per-cpu
	- Move the code from kernel/cpu_acct.c to kernel/sched.c (since the
	  code is not big enough to warrant a new file and also this rightly
	  needs to live inside the scheduler. Also things like accessing
	  rq->lock while reading cpu usage becomes easier if the code lived in
	  kernel/sched.c)

The patch also modifies the cpu controller not to provide the same accounting
information.

Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

 Tested the patches on top of 2.6.24-rc3. The patches work fine. Ran
 some simple tests like cpuspin (spin on the cpu), ran several tasks in
 the same group and timed them. Compared their time stamps with
 cpuacct.usage.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-02 20:04:49 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
deaf2227dd sched: clean up, move __sched_text_start/end to sched.h
move __sched_text_start/end to sched.h. No code changed:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  26582    2310      28   28920    70f8 sched.o.before
  26582    2310      28   28920    70f8 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-28 15:52:56 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9a4e715914 sched: clean up sd_alloc_ctl_cpu_table() definition
clean up sd_alloc_ctl_cpu_table() definition.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-28 15:52:56 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9612633a21 sched: reorder SCHED_FEAT_ bits
reorder SCHED_FEAT_ bits so that the used ones come first. Makes
tuning instructions easier.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-15 20:57:40 +01:00
Dmitry Adamushko
94bc9a7bd9 sched: remove activate_idle_task()
cpu_down() code is ok wrt sched_idle_next() placing the 'idle' task not
at the beginning of the queue.

So get rid of activate_idle_task() and make use of activate_task() instead.
It is the same as activate_task(), except for the update_rq_clock(rq) call
that is redundant.

Code size goes down:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  47853    3934     336   52123    cb9b sched.o.before
  47828    3934     336   52098    cb82 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-15 20:57:40 +01:00
Dmitry Adamushko
ce96b5ac74 sched: fix __set_task_cpu() SMP race
Grant Wilson has reported rare SCHED_FAIR_USER crashes on his quad-core
system, which crashes can only be explained via runqueue corruption.

there is a narrow SMP race in __set_task_cpu(): after ->cpu is set up to
a new value, task_rq_lock(p, ...) can be successfuly executed on another
CPU. We must ensure that updates of per-task data have been completed by
this moment.

this bug has been hiding in the Linux scheduler for an eternity (we never
had any explicit barrier for task->cpu in set_task_cpu() - so the bug was
introduced in 2.5.1), but only became visible via set_task_cfs_rq() being
accidentally put after the task->cpu update. It also probably needs a
sufficiently out-of-order CPU to trigger.

Reported-by: Grant Wilson <grant.wilson@zen.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-15 20:57:40 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
dae51f5620 sched: fix SCHED_FIFO tasks & FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
Suppose that the SCHED_FIFO task does

	switch_uid(new_user);

Now, p->se.cfs_rq and p->se.parent both point into the old
user_struct->tg because sched_move_task() doesn't call set_task_cfs_rq()
for !fair_sched_class case.

Suppose that old user_struct/task_group is freed/reused, and the task
does

	sched_setscheduler(SCHED_NORMAL);

__setscheduler() sets fair_sched_class, but doesn't update
->se.cfs_rq/parent which point to the freed memory.

This means that check_preempt_wakeup() doing

		while (!is_same_group(se, pse)) {
			se = parent_entity(se);
			pse = parent_entity(pse);
		}

may OOPS in a similar way if rq->curr or p did something like above.

Perhaps we need something like the patch below, note that
__setscheduler() can't do set_task_cfs_rq().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-15 20:57:40 +01:00
Christian Borntraeger
9778385db3 sched: fix accounting of interrupts during guest execution on s390
Currently the scheduler checks for PF_VCPU to decide if this timeslice
has to be accounted as guest time. On s390 host interrupts are not
disabled during guest execution. This causes theses interrupts to be
accounted as guest time if CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is set. Solution
is to check if an interrupt triggered account_system_time. As the tick
is timer interrupt based, we have to subtract hardirq_offset.

I tested the patch on s390 with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING and on
x86_64. Seems to work.

CC: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
CC: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-15 20:57:39 +01:00
Andrew Morton
cfb5285660 revert "Task Control Groups: example CPU accounting subsystem"
Revert 62d0df6406.

This was originally intended as a simple initial example of how to create a
control groups subsystem; it wasn't intended for mainline, but I didn't make
this clear enough to Andrew.

The CFS cgroup subsystem now has better functionality for the per-cgroup usage
accounting (based directly on CFS stats) than the "usage" status file in this
patch, and the "load" status file is rather simplistic - although having a
per-cgroup load average report would be a useful feature, I don't believe this
patch actually provides it.  If it gets into the final 2.6.24 we'd probably
have to support this interface for ever.

Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:40 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
e6fe6649b4 sched: proper prototype for kernel/sched.c:migration_init()
This patch adds a proper prototype for migration_init() in
include/linux/sched.h

Since there's no point in always returning 0 to a caller that doesn't check
the return value it also changes the function to return void.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
b82d9fdd84 sched: avoid large irq-latencies in smp-balancing
SMP balancing is done with IRQs disabled and can iterate the full rq.
When rqs are large this can cause large irq-latencies. Limit the nr of
iterations on each run.

This fixes a scheduling latency regression reported by the -rt folks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3e3e13f399 sched: remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT
remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT. (this is a separate commit so that any
regression related to the removal itself is bisectable)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
52d3da1ad4 sched: turn off PREEMPT_RESTRICT
PREEMPT_RESTRICT was a method aimed at reducing the amount of wakeup
related preemption. It has a disadvantage though, it can prevent
legitimate wakeups if a task is 'unlucky' to be hit too early by a tick
that clears peer_preempt.

Now that the wakeup preemption has been cleaned up we dont seem to have
excessive preemptions anymore, so this feature can be turned off. (and
removed in the next patch)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Eric Dumazet
d6322faf29 sched: cleanup, use NSEC_PER_MSEC and NSEC_PER_SEC
1) hardcoded 1000000000 value is used five times in places where
   NSEC_PER_SEC might be more readable.

2) A conversion from nsec to msec uses the hardcoded 1000000 value,
   which is a candidate for NSEC_PER_MSEC.

no code changed:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   44359    3326      36   47721    ba69 sched.o.before
   44359    3326      36   47721    ba69 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
19978ca610 sched: reintroduce SMP tunings again
Yanmin Zhang reported an aim7 regression and bisected it down to:

 |  commit 38ad464d41
 |  Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
 |  Date:   Mon Oct 15 17:00:02 2007 +0200
 |
 |     sched: uniform tunings
 |
 |     use the same defaults on both UP and SMP.

fix this by reintroducing similar SMP tunings again. This resolves
the regression.

(also update the comments to match the ilog2(nr_cpus) tuning effect)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
38605cae99 sched: fix style in kernel/sched.c
fallout of recent commits: small coding style fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-29 21:18:11 +01:00
Paul Menage
fe5c7cc228 sched: report CPU usage in CFS cgroup directories
Adds a cpu.usage file to the CFS cgroup that reports CPU usage in
milliseconds for that cgroup's tasks

[ mingo@elte.hu: style cleanups. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-29 21:18:11 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
ae8393e508 sched: move rcu_head to task_group struct
Peter Zijlstra noticed that the rcu_head object need not be present
in every cfs_rq of a group. Move it to the task_group structure
instead.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-29 21:18:11 +01:00
James Bottomley
7bae49d498 sched: fix incorrect assumption that cpu 0 exists
This patch:

commit 9b5b77512d
Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 15 17:00:09 2007 +0200

    sched: clean up code under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED

Introduced an assumption of the existence of CPU0 via this line

cfs_rq = tg->cfs_rq[0];

If you have no CPU0, that will be NULL.  The fix seems to be just to
take whatever cfs_rq queue comes out of the for_each_possible_cpu()
loop, since they're all equally good for the destruction operation.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-29 21:18:11 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
f7402e0361 sched: make kernel/sched.c:account_guest_time() static
account_guest_time() can become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-29 21:18:10 +01:00
Peter Williams
681f3e6854 sched: isolate SMP balancing code a bit more
At the moment, a lot of load balancing code that is irrelevant to non
SMP systems gets included during non SMP builds.

This patch addresses this issue and reduces the binary size on non
SMP systems:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  10983      28    1192   12203    2fab sched.o.before
  10739      28    1192   11959    2eb7 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:51 +02:00
Peter Williams
e1d1484f72 sched: reduce balance-tasks overhead
At the moment, balance_tasks() provides low level functionality for both
  move_tasks() and move_one_task() (indirectly) via the load_balance()
function (in the sched_class interface) which also provides dual
functionality.  This dual functionality complicates the interfaces and
internal mechanisms and makes the run time overhead of operations that
are called with two run queue locks held.

This patch addresses this issue and reduces the overhead of these
operations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:51 +02:00
Paul Menage
2b01dfe372 sched: clean up some control group code
- replace "cont" with "cgrp" in a few places in the CFS cgroup code, 
- use write_uint rather than write for cpu.shares write function

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by : Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:50 +02:00
Satyam Sharma
838225b48e sched: use show_regs() to improve __schedule_bug() output
A full register dump along with stack backtrace would make the
"scheduling while atomic" message more helpful. Use show_regs() instead
of dump_stack() for this. We already know we're atomic in here (that is
why this function was called) so show_regs()'s atomicity expectations
are guaranteed.

Also, modify the output of the "BUG: scheduling while atomic:" header a
bit to keep task->comm and task->pid together and preempt_count() after
them.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
4dcf6aff02 sched: clean up sched_domain_debug()
clean up sched_domain_debug().

this also shrinks the code a bit:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  50474    4306     480   55260    d7dc sched.o.before
  50404    4306     480   55190    d796 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b15136e949 sched: fix fastcall mismatch in completion APIs
Jeff Dike noticed that wait_for_completion_interruptible()'s prototype
had a mismatched fastcall.

Fix this by removing the fastcall attributes from all the completion APIs.

Found-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:48 +02:00
Milton Miller
7378547f2c sched: fix sched_domain sysctl registration again
commit  029190c515 (cpuset
sched_load_balance flag) was not tested SCHED_DEBUG enabled as
committed as it dereferences NULL when used and it reordered
the sysctl registration to cause it to never show any domains
or their tunables.

Fixes:

1) restore arch_init_sched_domains ordering
	we can't walk the domains before we build them

	presently we register cpus with empty directories (no domain
	directories or files).

2) make unregister_sched_domain_sysctl do nothing when already unregistered
	detach_destroy_domains is now called one set of cpus at a time
	unregister_syctl dereferences NULL if called with a null.

	While the the function would always dereference null if called
	twice, in the previous code it was always called once and then
	was followed a register.  So only the hidden bug of the
	sysctl_root_table not being allocated followed by an attempt to
	free it would have shown the error.

3) always call unregister and register in partition_sched_domains
	The code is "smart" about unregistering only needed domains.
	Since we aren't guaranteed any calls to unregister, always 
	unregister.   Without calling register on the way out we
	will not have a table or any sysctl tree.

4) warn if register is called without unregistering
	The previous table memory is lost, leaving pointers to the
	later freed memory in sysctl and leaking the memory of the
	tables.

Before this patch on a 2-core 4-thread box compiled for SMT and NUMA,
the domains appear empty (there are actually 3 levels per cpu).  And as
soon as two domains a null pointer is dereferenced (unreliable in this
case is stack garbage):

bu19a:~# ls -R /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/:
cpu0  cpu1  cpu2  cpu3

/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0:

/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu1:

/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu2:

/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu3:

bu19a:~# mkdir /dev/cpuset
bu19a:~# mount -tcpuset cpuset /dev/cpuset/
bu19a:~# cd /dev/cpuset/
bu19a:/dev/cpuset# echo 0 > sched_load_balance 
bu19a:/dev/cpuset# mkdir one
bu19a:/dev/cpuset# echo 1 > one/cpus               
bu19a:/dev/cpuset# echo 0 > one/sched_load_balance 
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000018
Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000006b608
NIP: c00000000006b608 LR: c00000000006b604 CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c000000018d973f0 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (2.6.23-bml)
MSR: 9000000000009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR>  CR: 28242442  XER: 00000000
DAR: 0000000000000018, DSISR: 0000000040000000
TASK = c00000001912e340[1987] 'bash' THREAD: c000000018d94000 CPU: 2
..
NIP [c00000000006b608] .unregister_sysctl_table+0x38/0x110
LR [c00000000006b604] .unregister_sysctl_table+0x34/0x110
Call Trace:
[c000000018d97670] [c000000007017270] 0xc000000007017270 (unreliable)
[c000000018d97720] [c000000000058710] .detach_destroy_domains+0x30/0xb0
[c000000018d977b0] [c00000000005cf1c] .partition_sched_domains+0x1bc/0x230
[c000000018d97870] [c00000000009fdc4] .rebuild_sched_domains+0xb4/0x4c0
[c000000018d97970] [c0000000000a02e8] .update_flag+0x118/0x170
[c000000018d97a80] [c0000000000a1768] .cpuset_common_file_write+0x568/0x820
[c000000018d97c00] [c00000000009d95c] .cgroup_file_write+0x7c/0x180
[c000000018d97cf0] [c0000000000e76b8] .vfs_write+0xe8/0x1b0
[c000000018d97d90] [c0000000000e810c] .sys_write+0x4c/0x90
[c000000018d97e30] [c00000000000852c] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:48 +02:00
Laurent Vivier
83d87d1673 sched: don't clear PF_VCPU in scheduler
KVM clears it by itself now, and for s390 this is plain wrong.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-22 12:03:29 +02:00
Michael Neuling
6888c1ecd6 kernel/sched.c: remove bogus comment from account_user_time
hardirq_offset is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:41:05 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
3a4fa0a25d Fix misspellings of "system", "controller", "interrupt" and "necessary".
Fix the various misspellings of "system", controller", "interrupt" and
"[un]necessary".

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:10:43 +02:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
68318b8e0b Hook up group scheduler with control groups
Enable "cgroup" (formerly containers) based fair group scheduling.  This
will let administrator create arbitrary groups of tasks (using "cgroup"
pseudo filesystem) and control their cpu bandwidth usage.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cpp condition]
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:51 -07:00
Cliff Wickman
470fd64644 hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset
When a cpu is disabled, move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called for tasks that have
been running on that cpu.

Currently, such a task is migrated:
 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online
    and among that task's cpus_allowed
 2) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed

It is typical of a multithreaded application running on a large NUMA system to
have its tasks confined to a cpuset so as to cluster them near the memory that
they share.  Furthermore, it is typical to explicitly place such a task on a
specific cpu in that cpuset.  And in that case the task's cpus_allowed
includes only a single cpu.

This patch would insert a preference to migrate such a task to some cpu within
its cpuset (and set its cpus_allowed to its entire cpuset).

With this patch, migrate the task to:
 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online
    and among that task's cpus_allowed
 2) to any online cpu within the task's cpuset
 3) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed

In order to do this, move_task_off_dead_cpu() must make a call to
cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(), a new subset of cpuset_cpus_allowed(), that will
not block.  (name change - per Oleg's suggestion)

Calls are made to cpuset_lock() and cpuset_unlock() in migration_call() to set
the cpuset mutex during the whole migrate_live_tasks() and
migrate_dead_tasks() procedure.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[pj@sgi.com: Fix indentation and spacing]
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:44 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
ba25f9dcc4 Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks
The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start
using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in
the kernel.

The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in
this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce
more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
Eugene Teo
270f722d4d Fix tsk->exit_state usage
tsk->exit_state can only be 0, EXIT_ZOMBIE, or EXIT_DEAD.  A non-zero test
is the same as tsk->exit_state & (EXIT_ZOMBIE | EXIT_DEAD), so just testing
tsk->exit_state is sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:42 -07:00
Paul Menage
8707d8b8c0 Fix cpusets update_cpumask
Cause writes to cpuset "cpus" file to update cpus_allowed for member tasks:

- collect batches of tasks under tasklist_lock and then call
  set_cpus_allowed() on them outside the lock (since this can sleep).

- add a simple generic priority heap type to allow efficient collection
  of batches of tasks to be processed without duplicating or missing any
  tasks in subsequent batches.

- make "cpus" file update a no-op if the mask hasn't changed

- fix race between update_cpumask() and sched_setaffinity() by making
  sched_setaffinity() post-check that it's not running on any cpus outside
  cpuset_cpus_allowed().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
Paul Jackson
029190c515 cpuset sched_load_balance flag
Add a new per-cpuset flag called 'sched_load_balance'.

When enabled in a cpuset (the default value) it tells the kernel scheduler
that the scheduler should provide the normal load balancing on the CPUs in
that cpuset, sometimes moving tasks from one CPU to a second CPU if the
second CPU is less loaded and if that task is allowed to run there.

When disabled (write "0" to the file) then it tells the kernel scheduler
that load balancing is not required for the CPUs in that cpuset.

Now even if this flag is disabled for some cpuset, the kernel may still
have to load balance some or all the CPUs in that cpuset, if some
overlapping cpuset has its sched_load_balance flag enabled.

If there are some CPUs that are not in any cpuset whose sched_load_balance
flag is enabled, the kernel scheduler will not load balance tasks to those
CPUs.

Moreover the kernel will partition the 'sched domains' (non-overlapping
sets of CPUs over which load balancing is attempted) into the finest
granularity partition that it can find, while still keeping any two CPUs
that are in the same shed_load_balance enabled cpuset in the same element
of the partition.

This serves two purposes:
 1) It provides a mechanism for real time isolation of some CPUs, and
 2) it can be used to improve performance on systems with many CPUs
    by supporting configurations in which load balancing is not done
    across all CPUs at once, but rather only done in several smaller
    disjoint sets of CPUs.

This mechanism replaces the earlier overloading of the per-cpuset
flag 'cpu_exclusive', which overloading was removed in an earlier
patch: cpuset-remove-sched-domain-hooks-from-cpusets

See further the Documentation and comments in the code itself.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't be weird]
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.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>
2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
228ebcbe63 Uninline find_task_by_xxx set of functions
The find_task_by_something is a set of macros are used to find task by pid
depending on what kind of pid is proposed - global or virtual one.  All of
them are wrappers above the most generic one - find_task_by_pid_type_ns() -
and just substitute some args for it.

It turned out, that dereferencing the current->nsproxy->pid_ns construction
and pushing one more argument on the stack inline cause kernel text size to
grow.

This patch moves all this stuff out-of-line into kernel/pid.c.  Together
with the next patch it saves a bit less than 400 bytes from the .text
section.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.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>
2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
b488893a39 pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to user
This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where
the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids.

The idea is:
 - all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself
   or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call;
 - when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one
   should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids;
 - when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one
   should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this
   task's namespace the global one is to be used;
 - when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as
   the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
Paul Menage
62d0df6406 Task Control Groups: example CPU accounting subsystem
This example demonstrates how to use the generic cgroup subsystem for a
simple resource tracker that counts, for the processes in a cgroup, the
total CPU time used and the %CPU used in the last complete 10 second interval.

Portions contributed by Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
54e840dd50 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: reduce schedstat variable overhead a bit
  sched: add KERN_CONT annotation
  sched: cleanup, make struct rq comments more consistent
  sched: cleanup, fix spacing
  sched: fix return value of wait_for_completion_interruptible()
2007-10-18 14:54:03 -07:00
Michael Neuling
c66f08be7e Add scaled time to taskstats based process accounting
This adds items to the taststats struct to account for user and system
time based on scaling the CPU frequency and instruction issue rates.

Adds account_(user|system)_time_scaled callbacks which architectures
can use to account for time using this mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
Ken Chen
480b9434c5 sched: reduce schedstat variable overhead a bit
schedstat is useful in investigating CPU scheduler behavior.  Ideally,
I think it is beneficial to have it on all the time.  However, the
cost of turning it on in production system is quite high, largely due
to number of events it collects and also due to its large memory
footprint.

Most of the fields probably don't need to be full 64-bit on 64-bit
arch.  Rolling over 4 billion events will most like take a long time
and user space tool can be made to accommodate that.  I'm proposing
kernel to cut back most of variable width on 64-bit system.  (note,
the following patch doesn't affect 32-bit system).

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-18 21:32:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
cc4ea79588 sched: add KERN_CONT annotation
printk: add the KERN_CONT annotation (which is empty string but via
which checkpatch.pl can notice that the lacking KERN_ level is fine).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-18 21:32:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d801649162 sched: cleanup, make struct rq comments more consistent
cleanup, make struct rq comments more consistent.

found via scripts/checkpatch.pl.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-18 21:32:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8401f77505 sched: cleanup, fix spacing
cleanup: fix sysctl_sched_features initialization spacing, and
fix sd_alloc_ctl_cpu_table() prototype spacing.

found via scripts/checkpatch.pl.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-18 21:32:55 +02:00
Andi Kleen
51e9799023 sched: fix return value of wait_for_completion_interruptible()
The recent wait_for_completion() cleanups:

    commit 8cbbe86dfc
    Author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
    Date:   Mon Oct 15 17:00:14 2007 +0200

    sched: cleanup: refactor common code of sleep_on / wait_for_completion

    Refactor common code of sleep_on / wait_for_completion

broke the return value of wait_for_completion_interruptible().
Previously it returned 0 on success, now -1.  Fix that.

Problem found by Geert Uytterhoeven.

[ mingo: fixed whitespace damage ]

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-18 21:32:55 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e6d5a11dad Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: fix new task startup crash
  sched: fix !SYSFS build breakage
  sched: fix improper load balance across sched domain
  sched: more robust sd-sysctl entry freeing
2007-10-17 09:11:18 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
d2da272a4e migration_call(CPU_DEAD): use spin_lock_irq() instead of task_rq_lock()
Change migration_call(CPU_DEAD) to use direct spin_lock_irq() instead of
task_rq_lock(rq->idle), rq->idle can't change its task_rq().

This makes the code a bit more symmetrical with migrate_dead_tasks()'s path
which uses spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:03 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
f7b4cddcc5 do CPU_DEAD migrating under read_lock(tasklist) instead of write_lock_irq(tasklist)
Currently move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called under
write_lock_irq(tasklist).  This means it can't use task_lock() which is
needed to improve migrating to take task's ->cpuset into account.

Change the code to call move_task_off_dead_cpu() with irqs enabled, and
change migrate_live_tasks() to use read_lock(tasklist).

This all is a preparation for the futher changes proposed by Cliff Wickman, see
	http://marc.info/?t=117327786100003

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:03 -07:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
b9dca1e0fc sched: fix new task startup crash
Child task may be added on a different cpu that the one on which parent
is running. In which case, task_new_fair() should check whether the new
born task's parent entity should be added as well on the cfs_rq.

Patch below fixes the problem in task_new_fair.

This could fix the put_prev_task_fair() crashes reported.

Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-17 16:55:11 +02:00
Ken Chen
908a7c1b9b sched: fix improper load balance across sched domain
We recently discovered a nasty performance bug in the kernel CPU load
balancer where we were hit by 50% performance regression.

When tasks are assigned to a subset of CPUs that span across
sched_domains (either ccNUMA node or the new multi-core domain) via
cpu affinity, kernel fails to perform proper load balance at
these domains, due to several logic in find_busiest_group() miss
identified busiest sched group within a given domain. This leads to
inadequate load balance and causes 50% performance hit.

To give you a concrete example, on a dual-core, 2 socket numa system,
there are 4 logical cpu, organized as:

CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
 domain 0: span 0003  groups: 0001 0002
 domain 1: span 000f  groups: 0003 000c
CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
 domain 0: span 0003  groups: 0002 0001
 domain 1: span 000f  groups: 0003 000c
CPU2 attaching sched-domain:
 domain 0: span 000c  groups: 0004 0008
 domain 1: span 000f  groups: 000c 0003
CPU3 attaching sched-domain:
 domain 0: span 000c  groups: 0008 0004
 domain 1: span 000f  groups: 000c 0003

If I run 2 tasks with CPU affinity set to 0x5.  There are situation
where cpu0 has run queue length of 2, and cpu2 will be idle.  The
kernel load balancer is unable to balance out these two tasks over
cpu0 and cpu2 due to at least three logics in find_busiest_group()
that heavily bias load balance towards power saving mode. e.g. while
determining "busiest" variable, kernel only set it when
"sum_nr_running > group_capacity".  This test is flawed that
"sum_nr_running" is not necessary same as
sum-tasks-allowed-to-run-within-the sched-group.  The end result is
that kernel "think" everything is balanced, but in reality we have an
imbalance and thus causing one CPU to be over-subscribed and leaving
other idle.  There are two other logic in the same function will also
causing similar effect.  The nastiness of this bug is that kernel not
be able to get unstuck in this unfortunate broken state.  From what
we've seen in our environment, kernel will stuck in imbalanced state
for extended period of time and it is also very easy for the kernel to
stuck into that state (it's pretty much 100% reproducible for us).

So proposing the following fix: add addition logic in
find_busiest_group to detect intrinsic imbalance within the busiest
group.  When such condition is detected, load balance goes into spread
mode instead of default grouping mode.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-17 16:55:11 +02:00
Milton Miller
cd79007634 sched: more robust sd-sysctl entry freeing
It occurred to me this morning that the procname field was dynamically
allocated and needed to be freed.  I started to put in break statements
when allocation failed but it was approaching 50% error handling code.

I came up with this alternative of looping while entry->mode is set and
checking proc_handler instead of ->table.  Alternatively, the string
version of the domain name and cpu number could be stored the structs.

I verified by compiling CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and checking the allocation
counts after taking a cpuset exclusive and back.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-17 16:55:11 +02:00
Paul Jackson
607717a65d cpuset: remove sched domain hooks from cpusets
Remove the cpuset hooks that defined sched domains depending on the setting
of the 'cpu_exclusive' flag.

The cpu_exclusive flag can only be set on a child if it is set on the
parent.

This made that flag painfully unsuitable for use as a flag defining a
partitioning of a system.

It was entirely unobvious to a cpuset user what partitioning of sched
domains they would be causing when they set that one cpu_exclusive bit on
one cpuset, because it depended on what CPUs were in the remainder of that
cpusets siblings and child cpusets, after subtracting out other
cpu_exclusive cpusets.

Furthermore, there was no way on production systems to query the
result.

Using the cpu_exclusive flag for this was simply wrong from the get go.

Fortunately, it was sufficiently borked that so far as I know, almost no
successful use has been made of this.  One real time group did use it to
affectively isolate CPUs from any load balancing efforts.  They are willing
to adapt to alternative mechanisms for this, such as someway to manipulate
the list of isolated CPUs on a running system.  They can do without this
present cpu_exclusive based mechanism while we develop an alternative.

There is a real risk, to the best of my understanding, of users
accidentally setting up a partitioned scheduler domains, inhibiting desired
load balancing across all their CPUs, due to the nonobvious (from the
cpuset perspective) side affects of the cpu_exclusive flag.

Furthermore, since there was no way on a running system to see what one was
doing with sched domains, this change will be invisible to any using code.
Unless they have real insight to the scheduler load balancing choices, they
will be unable to detect that this change has been made in the kernel's
behaviour.

Initial discussion on lkml of this patch has generated much comment.  My
(probably controversial) take on that discussion is that it has reached a
rough concensus that the current cpuset cpu_exclusive mechanism for
defining sched domains is borked.  There is no concensus on the
replacement.  But since we can remove this mechanism, and since its
continued presence risks causing unwanted partitioning of the schedulers
load balancing, we should remove it while we can, as we proceed to work the
replacement scheduler domain mechanisms.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:09 -07:00
Mike Travis
d5a7430ddc Convert cpu_sibling_map to be a per cpu variable
Convert cpu_sibling_map from a static array sized by NR_CPUS to a per_cpu
variable.  This saves sizeof(cpumask_t) * NR unused cpus.  Access is mostly
from startup and CPU HOTPLUG functions.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:50 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
9c63d9c021 sched: sync wakeups preempt too
make sure sync wakeups preempt too - the scheduler will not
overschedule as we've got various throttles against that.
As a result, sync wakeups can be used more widely in the kernel
(to signal wakeup affinity between tasks), and no arbitrary
latencies will be introduced either.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
71e20f1873 sched: affine sync wakeups
make sync wakeups affine for cache-cold tasks: if a cache-cold task
is woken up by a sync wakeup then use the opportunity to migrate it
straight away. (the two tasks are 'related' because they communicate)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:19 +02:00
Laurent Vivier
94886b84b1 sched: guest CPU accounting: maintain stats in account_system_time()
modify account_system_time() to add cputime to cpustat->guest if we are
running a VCPU. We add this cputime to cpustat->user instead of
cpustat->system because this part of KVM code is in fact user code
although it is executed in the kernel. We duplicate VCPU time between
guest and user to allow an unmodified "top(1)" to display correct value.
A modified "top(1)" is able to display good cpu user time and cpu guest
time by subtracting cpu guest time from cpu user time. Update "gtime" in
task_struct accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:19 +02:00
Milton Miller
6323469f9b sched: domain sysctl fixes: add terminator comment
we had an incorrect-terminator bug in sd_alloc_ctl_domain_table()
before, so add a comment that documents it.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:19 +02:00
Milton Miller
ad1cdc1d78 sched: domain sysctl fixes: do not crash on allocation failure
Now that we are calling this at runtime, a more relaxed error path is
suggested.  If an allocation fails, we just register the partial table,
which will show empty directories.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:19 +02:00
Milton Miller
6382bc90f5 sched: domain sysctl fixes: unregister the sysctl table before domains
Unregister and free the sysctl table before destroying domains, then
rebuild and register after creating the new domains.  This prevents the
sysctl table from pointing to freed memory for root to write.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:19 +02:00
Milton Miller
97b6ea7b63 sched: domain sysctl fixes: use for_each_online_cpu()
init_sched_domain_sysctl was walking cpus 0-n and referencing per_cpu
variables.  If the cpus_possible mask is not contigious this will result
in a crash referencing unallocated data.  If the online mask is not
contigious then we would show offline cpus and miss online ones.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:19 +02:00
Milton Miller
5cf9f062c8 sched: domain sysctl fixes: use kcalloc()
kcalloc checks for n * sizeof(element) overflows and it zeros.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
6bc1665ba7 sched: allow the immediate migration of cache-cold tasks
allow the immediate migration of cache-cold tasks.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
cc367732ff sched: debug, improve migration statistics
add new migration statistics when SCHED_DEBUG and SCHEDSTATS
is enabled. Available in /proc/<PID>/sched.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:18 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ff56b2f015 sched: activate task_hot() only on fair-scheduled tasks
activate task_hot() only for fair-scheduled tasks (i.e. disable it
for RT tasks).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
da84d96176 sched: reintroduce cache-hot affinity
reintroduce a simplified version of cache-hot/cold scheduling
affinity. This improves performance with certain SMP workloads,
such as sysbench.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
178be79348 sched: do not normalize kernel threads via SysRq-N
do not normalize kernel threads via SysRq-N: the migration threads,
softlockup threads, etc. might be essential for the system to
function properly. So only zap user tasks.

pointed out by Andi Kleen.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:18 +02:00
Andi Kleen
1666703af9 sched: remove stale comment from sched_group_set_shares()
remove stale comment from sched_group_set_shares().

Function never returns -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d5036e89dc sched: clean up is_migration_thread()
clean up is_migration_thread() and turn it into an inline function.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:15 +02:00
Andi Kleen
3a5e4dc12f sched: cleanup: refactor normalize_rt_tasks
Replace a particularly ugly ifdef with an inline and a new macro.
Also split up the function to be easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:15 +02:00
Andi Kleen
8cbbe86dfc sched: cleanup: refactor common code of sleep_on / wait_for_completion
Refactor common code of sleep_on / wait_for_completion

These functions were largely cut'n'pasted. This moves
the common code into single helpers instead.  Advantage
is about 1k less code on x86-64 and 91 lines of code removed.
It adds one function call to the non timeout version of
the functions; i don't expect this to be measurable.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:14 +02:00
Andi Kleen
3a5c359a58 sched: cleanup: remove unnecessary gotos
Replace loops implemented with gotos with real loops.
Replace err = ...; goto x; x: return err; with return ...;

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:14 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
95938a35c5 sched: prevent wakeup over-scheduling
Prevent wakeup over-scheduling.  Once a task has been preempted by a
task of the same or lower priority, it becomes ineligible for repeated
preemption by same until it has been ticked, or slept.  Instead, the
task is marked for preemption at the next tick.  Tasks of higher
priority still preempt immediately.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:14 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ce6c131131 sched: disable forced preemption by default
Implement feature bit to disable forced preemption. This way
it can be checked whether a workload is overscheduling or not.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:14 +02:00
Zou Nan hai
ace8b3d633 sched: some proc entries are missed in sched_domain sys_ctl debug code
cache_nice_tries and flags entry do not appear in proc fs sched_domain
directory, because ctl_table entry is skipped.

This patch fixes the issue.

Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:14 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy
638e13ac37 sched: fix rt ptracer monopolizing CPU
yield() in wait_task_inactive(), can cause a high priority thread to be
scheduled back in, and there by loop forever while it is waiting for some
lower priority thread which is unfortunately still on the runqueue.

Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1) instead.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Credit: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:14 +02:00
Dhaval Giani
5cb350baf5 sched: group scheduling, sysfs tunables
Add tunables in sysfs to modify a user's cpu share.

A directory is created in sysfs for each new user in the system.

	/sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_share

Reading this file returns the cpu shares granted for the user.
Writing into this file modifies the cpu share for the user. Only an
administrator is allowed to modify a user's cpu share.

Ex:
	# cd /sys/kernel/uids/
	# cat 512/cpu_share
	1024
	# echo 2048 > 512/cpu_share
	# cat 512/cpu_share
	2048
	#

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:14 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
a58f6f253d sched: export cpu_clock()
export cpu_clock() - the preferred API instead of sched_clock().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:14 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
00bf7bfc2e sched: fix: move the CPU check into ->task_new_fair()
noticed by Peter Zijlstra:

fix: move the CPU check into ->task_new_fair(), this way we
can call place_entity() and get child ->vruntime right at
initial wakeup time.

(without this there can be large latencies)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-10-15 17:00:14 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
4cf86d77f5 sched: cleanup: rename task_grp to task_group
cleanup: rename task_grp to task_group. No need to save two characters
and 'grp' is annoying to read.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:14 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
06877c33fe sched: cleanup: rename SCHED_FEAT_USE_TREE_AVG to SCHED_FEAT_TREE_AVG
cleanup: rename SCHED_FEAT_USE_TREE_AVG to SCHED_FEAT_TREE_AVG, to
make SCHED_FEAT_ names more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:13 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a65914b365 sched: kfree(NULL) is valid
kfree(NULL) is valid.

pointed out by checkpatch.pl.

the fix shrinks the code a bit:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  40024    3842     100   43966    abbe sched.o.before
  40002    3842     100   43944    aba8 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:13 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8927f49479 sched: style cleanup
fix up __setup() style bug - noticed via checkpatch.pl.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:13 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
26797a34a2 sched: break out if printing a warning in sched_domain_debug()
checkpatch.pl and Andy Whitcroft noticed the following bug: we did
not break out after printing an error.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:13 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3e9830dcab sched: run sched_domain_debug() if CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y
run sched_domain_debug() if CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y, instead
of relying on the hand-crafted SCHED_DOMAIN_DEBUG switch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:13 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko
a4ec24b48d sched: tidy up SCHED_RR
- make timeslices of SCHED_RR tasks constant and not
dependent on task's static_prio [1] ;
- remove obsolete code (timeslice related bits);
- make sched_rr_get_interval() return something more
meaningful [2] for SCHED_OTHER tasks.

[1] according to the following link, it's not compliant with SUSv3
(not sure though, what is the reference for us :-)
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/7/656

[2] the interval is dynamic and can be depicted as follows "should a
task be one of the runnable tasks at this particular moment, it would
expect to run for this interval of time before being re-scheduled by the
scheduler tick".
(i.e. it's more precise if a task is runnable at the moment)

yeah, this seems to require task_rq_lock/unlock() but this is not a hot
path.

results:

(SCHED_FIFO)

dimm@earth:~/storage/prog$ sudo chrt -f 10 ./rr_interval 
time_slice: 0 : 0

(SCHED_RR)

dimm@earth:~/storage/prog$ sudo chrt 10 ./rr_interval 
time_slice: 0 : 99984800

(SCHED_NORMAL)

dimm@earth:~/storage/prog$ ./rr_interval 
time_slice: 0 : 19996960

(SCHED_NORMAL + a cpu_hog of similar 'weight' on the same CPU --- so should be a half of the previous result)

dimm@earth:~/storage/prog$ taskset 1 ./rr_interval 
time_slice: 0 : 9998480

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:13 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
a9957449b0 sched: uninline scheduler
* save ~300 bytes
* activate_idle_task() was moved to avoid a warning

bloat-o-meter output:

add/remove: 6/0 grow/shrink: 0/16 up/down: 438/-733 (-295)		<===
function                                     old     new   delta
__enqueue_entity                               -     165    +165
finish_task_switch                             -     110    +110
update_curr_rt                                 -      79     +79
__load_balance_iterator                        -      32     +32
__task_rq_unlock                               -      28     +28
find_process_by_pid                            -      24     +24
do_sched_setscheduler                        133     123     -10
sys_sched_rr_get_interval                    176     165     -11
sys_sched_getparam                           156     145     -11
normalize_rt_tasks                           482     470     -12
sched_getaffinity                            112      99     -13
sys_sched_getscheduler                        86      72     -14
sched_setaffinity                            226     212     -14
sched_setscheduler                           666     642     -24
load_balance_start_fair                       33       9     -24
load_balance_next_fair                        33       9     -24
dequeue_task_rt                              133      67     -66
put_prev_task_rt                              97      28     -69
schedule_tail                                133      50     -83
schedule                                     682     594     -88
enqueue_entity                               499     366    -133
task_new_fair                                317     180    -137

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:13 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1e81995066 sched: optimize schedule() a bit on SMP
optimize schedule() a bit on SMP, by moving the rq-clock update
outside the rq lock.

code size is the same:

      text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
     25725    2666      96   28487    6f47 sched.o.before
     25725    2666      96   28487    6f47 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:13 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3a25201572 sched: whitespace cleanups
more whitespace cleanups. No code changed:

      text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
     26553    2790     288   29631    73bf sched.o.before
     26553    2790     288   29631    73bf sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5522d5d5f7 sched: mark scheduling classes as const
mark scheduling classes as const. The speeds up the code
a bit and shrinks it:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  40027    4018     292   44337    ad31 sched.o.before
  40190    3842     292   44324    ad24 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:12 +02:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2830cf8c90 sched: group scheduler SMP migration fix
group scheduler SMP migration fix: use task_cfs_rq(p) to get
to the relevant fair-scheduling runqueue of a task, rq->cfs
is not the right one.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15 17:00:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2d72376b3a sched: clean up schedstats, cnt -> count
rename all 'cnt' fields and variables to the less yucky 'count' name.

yuckage noticed by Andrew Morton.

no change in code, other than the /proc/sched_debug bkl_count string got
a bit larger:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  38236    3506      24   41766    a326 sched.o.before
  38240    3506      24   41770    a32a sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:12 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
2ddbf95250 sched: clean up sched_fork()
The adjusting sched_class is a missing part of the already existing "do
not leak PI boosting priority to the child" at the sched_fork(). This
patch moves the adjusting sched_class from wake_up_new_task() to
sched_fork().

this also shrinks the code a bit:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  40111    4018     292   44421    ad85 sched.o.before
  40102    4018     292   44412    ad7c sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
02e4bac2a5 sched: fix sched_fork()
fix sched_fork(): large latencies at new task creation time because
the ->vruntime was not fixed up cross-CPU, if the parent got migrated
after the child's CPU got set up.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
94359f05cb sched: undo some of the recent changes
undo some of the recent changes that are not needed after all,
such as last_min_vruntime.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-10-15 17:00:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
785c29ef95 sched: remove condition from set_task_cpu()
remove condition from set_task_cpu(). Now that ->vruntime
is not global anymore, it should (and does) work fine without
it too.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-10-15 17:00:11 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ddc9729750 sched debug: check spread
debug feature: check how well we schedule within a reasonable
vruntime 'spread' range. (note that CPU overload can increase
the spread, so this is not a hard condition, but normal loads
should be within the spread.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-10-15 17:00:10 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
67e9fb2a39 sched: add vslice
add vslice: the load-dependent "virtual slice" a task should
run ideally, so that the observed latency stays within the
sched_latency window.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:10 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b8efb56172 sched debug: BKL usage statistics
add per task and per rq BKL usage statistics.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:10 +02:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
24e377a832 sched: add fair-user scheduler
Enable user-id based fair group scheduling. This is useful for anyone
who wants to test the group scheduler w/o having to enable
CONFIG_CGROUPS.

A separate scheduling group (i.e struct task_grp) is automatically created for 
every new user added to the system. Upon uid change for a task, it is made to 
move to the corresponding scheduling group.

A /proc tunable (/proc/root_user_share) is also provided to tune root
user's quota of cpu bandwidth.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:09 +02:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
9b5b77512d sched: clean up code under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
With the view of supporting user-id based fair scheduling (and not just
container-based fair scheduling), this patch renames several functions
and makes them independent of whether they are being used for container
or user-id based fair scheduling.

Also fix a problem reported by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki (wrt allocating
less-sized array for tg->cfs_rq[] and tf->se[]).

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:09 +02:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
83b699ed20 sched: revert recent removal of set_curr_task()
Revert removal of set_curr_task.
Use put_prev_task/set_curr_task when changing groups/policies

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri < vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-10-15 17:00:08 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko
f6b53205e1 sched: rework enqueue/dequeue_entity() to get rid of set_curr_task()
rework enqueue/dequeue_entity() to get rid of 
sched_class::set_curr_task(). This simplifies sched_setscheduler(), 
rt_mutex_setprio() and sched_move_tasks().

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  24330    2734      20   27084    69cc sched.o.before
  24233    2730      20   26983    6967 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:08 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko
4530d7ab0f sched: simplify sched_class::yield_task()
the 'p' (task_struct) parameter in the sched_class :: yield_task() is
redundant as the caller is always the 'current'. Get rid of it.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  24341    2734      20   27095    69d7 sched.o.before
  24330    2734      20   27084    69cc sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:08 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko
30cfdcfc5f sched: do not keep current in the tree and get rid of sched_entity::fair_key
Get rid of 'sched_entity::fair_key'.

As a side effect, 'current' is not kept withing the tree for 
SCHED_NORMAL/BATCH tasks anymore. This simplifies some parts of code 
(e.g. entity_tick() and yield_task_fair()) and also somewhat optimizes 
them (e.g. a single update_curr() now vs. dequeue/enqueue() before in 
entity_tick()).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:07 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko
7074badbcb sched: add set_curr_task() calls
p->sched_class->set_curr_task() has to be called before 
activate_task()/enqueue_task() in rt_mutex_setprio(), 
sched_setschedule() and sched_move_task() in order to set up 
'cfs_rq->curr'. The logic of enqueueing depends on whether a task to be 
inserted is 'current' or not.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:07 +02:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
29f59db3a7 sched: group-scheduler core
Add interface to control cpu bandwidth allocation to task-groups.

(not yet configurable, due to missing CONFIG_CONTAINERS)

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-10-15 17:00:07 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
119fe5e068 sched: fix SMP migration latencies
fix SMP migration latencies: the vruntimes of different CPUs are
at incompatible offsets so they have to be fixed up when migrating
a task across CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
bbdba7c0e1 sched: remove wait_runtime fields and features
remove wait_runtime based fields and features, now that the CFS
math has been changed over to the vruntime metric.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:06 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e22f5bbf86 sched: remove wait_runtime limit
remove the wait_runtime-limit fields and the code depending on it, now
that the math has been changed over to rely on the vruntime metric.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:06 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko
495eca494a sched: clean up struct load_stat
'struct load_stat' is redundant now so let's get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
94dfb5e75e sched: add tree based averages
add support for tree based vruntime averages.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
28a1f6fa2f sched: remove SCHED_FEAT_SKIP_INITIAL
remove SCHED_FEAT_SKIP_INITIAL - it was off by default and even
when enabled it never made any real difference.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
6cb5819514 sched: optimize vruntime based scheduling
optimize vruntime based scheduling.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
bf5c91ba8c sched: move sched_feat() definitions
move sched_feat() definitions so that it can be used sooner by generic
code too.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e9acbff648 sched: introduce se->vruntime
introduce se->vruntime as a sum of weighted delta-exec's, and use that
as the key into the tree.

the idea to use absolute virtual time as the basic metric of scheduling
has been first raised by William Lee Irwin, advanced by Tong Li and first
prototyped by Roman Zippel in the "Really Fair Scheduler" (RFS) patchset.

also see:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/2/76

for a simpler variant of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1091985b48 sched: speed up update_load_add/_sub()
speed up update_load_add/_sub() by not delaying the division - this
reduces CPU pipeline dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
62160e3f4a sched: track cfs_rq->curr on !group-scheduling too
Noticed by Roman Zippel: use cfs_rq->curr in the !group-scheduling
case too. Small micro-optimization and cleanup effect:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   36269    3482      24   39775    9b5f sched.o.before
   36177    3486      24   39687    9b07 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
53df556e06 sched: remove precise CPU load calculations #2
continued removal of precise CPU load calculations.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a25707f3ae sched: remove precise CPU load
CPU load calculations are statistical anyway, and there's little benefit
from having it calculated on every scheduling event. So remove this code,
it gets rid of a divide from the scheduler wakeup and context-switch
fastpath.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8ebc91d936 sched: remove stat_gran
remove the stat_gran code - it was disabled by default and it causes
unnecessary overhead.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2bd8e6d422 sched: use constants if !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
use constants if !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG.

this speeds up the code and reduces code-size:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   27464    3014      16   30494    771e sched.o.before
   26929    3010      20   29959    7507 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
38ad464d41 sched: uniform tunings
use the same defaults on both UP and SMP.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
eba1ed4b7e sched: debug: track maximum 'slice'
track the maximum amount of time a task has executed while
the CPU load was at least 2x. (i.e. at least two nice-0
tasks were runnable)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:02 +02:00
Matthias Kaehlcke
2e45874c5a sched: use list_for_each_entry_safe() in __wake_up_common()
Use list_for_each_entry_safe() instead of list_for_each_safe() in
__wake_up_common()

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
44142fac34 sched: fix sysctl_sched_child_runs_first flag
fix the sched_child_runs_first flag: always call into ->task_new()
if we are on the same CPU, as SCHED_OTHER tasks depend on it for
correct initial setup.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15 17:00:01 +02:00
Jens Axboe
f5ff8422bb Fix warnings with !CONFIG_BLOCK
Hide everything in blkdev.h with CONFIG_BLOCK isn't set, and fixup
the (few) files that fail to build because they were relying on blkdev.h
pulling in extra includes for them.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-10 09:25:57 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
9c95e7319b sched: fix invalid sched_class use
When using rt_mutex, a NULL pointer dereference is occurred at
enqueue_task_rt. Here is a scenario;
1) there are two threads, the thread A is fair_sched_class and
   thread B is rt_sched_class.
2) Thread A is boosted up to rt_sched_class, because the thread A
   has a rt_mutex lock and the thread B is waiting the lock.
3) At this time, when thread A create a new thread C, the thread
   C has a rt_sched_class.
4) When doing wake_up_new_task() for the thread C, the priority
   of the thread C is out of the RT priority range, because the
   normal priority of thread A is not the RT priority. It makes
   data corruption by overflowing the rt_prio_array.
The new thread C should be fair_sched_class.

The new thread should be valid scheduler class before queuing.
This patch fixes to set the suitable scheduler class.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-09-19 23:34:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1799e35d5b sched: add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield
add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield to make sys_sched_yield()
more agressive, by moving the yielding task to the last position
in the rbtree.

with sched_compat_yield=0:

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  2539 mingo     20   0  1576  252  204 R   50  0.0   0:02.03 loop_yield
  2541 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   50  0.0   0:02.05 loop

with sched_compat_yield=1:

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  2584 mingo     20   0  1576  248  196 R   99  0.0   0:52.45 loop
  2582 mingo     20   0  1576  256  204 R    0  0.0   0:00.00 loop_yield

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-09-19 23:34:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
cf2ab4696e sched: fix xtensa build warning
rename RSR to SRR - 'RSR' is already defined on xtensa.

found by Adrian Bunk.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-09-05 14:32:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a206c07213 sched: debug: fix cfs_rq->wait_runtime accounting
the cfs_rq->wait_runtime debug/statistics counter was not maintained
properly - fix this.

this also removes some code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  13420     228    1204   14852    3a04 sched.o.before
  13404     228    1204   14836    39f4 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-09-05 14:32:49 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
7fd0d2dde9 sched: fix MC/HT scheduler optimization, without breaking the FUZZ logic.
First fix the check
	if (*imbalance + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ < busiest_load_per_task)
with this
	if (*imbalance < busiest_load_per_task)

As the current check is always false for nice 0 tasks (as
SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ is same as busiest_load_per_task for nice 0
tasks).

With the above change, imbalance was getting reset to 0 in the corner
case condition, making the FUZZ logic fail. Fix it by not corrupting the
imbalance and change the imbalance, only when it finds that the HT/MC
optimization is needed.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-09-05 14:32:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f6cf891c4d sched: make the scheduler converge to the ideal latency
de-HZ-ification of the granularity defaults unearthed a pre-existing
property of CFS: while it correctly converges to the granularity goal,
it does not prevent run-time fluctuations in the range of
[-gran ... 0 ... +gran].

With the increase of the granularity due to the removal of HZ
dependencies, this becomes visible in chew-max output (with 5 tasks
running):

 out:  28 . 27. 32 | flu:  0 .  0 | ran:    9 .   13 | per:   37 .   40
 out:  27 . 27. 32 | flu:  0 .  0 | ran:   17 .   13 | per:   44 .   40
 out:  27 . 27. 32 | flu:  0 .  0 | ran:    9 .   13 | per:   36 .   40
 out:  29 . 27. 32 | flu:  2 .  0 | ran:   17 .   13 | per:   46 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 32 | flu:  0 .  0 | ran:    9 .   13 | per:   37 .   40
 out:  29 . 27. 32 | flu:  0 .  0 | ran:   18 .   13 | per:   47 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 32 | flu:  0 .  0 | ran:    9 .   13 | per:   37 .   40

average slice is the ideal 13 msecs and the period is picture-perfect 40
msecs. But the 'ran' field fluctuates around 13.33 msecs and there's no
mechanism in CFS to keep that from happening: it's a perfectly valid
solution that CFS finds.

to fix this we add a granularity/preemption rule that knows about
the "target latency", which makes tasks that run longer than the ideal
latency run a bit less. The simplest approach is to simply decrease the
preemption granularity when a task overruns its ideal latency. For this
we have to track how much the task executed since its last preemption.

( this adds a new field to task_struct, but we can eliminate that
  overhead in 2.6.24 by putting all the scheduler timestamps into an
  anonymous union. )

with this change in place, chew-max output is fluctuation-less all
around:

 out:  28 . 27. 39 | flu:  0 .  2 | ran:   13 .   13 | per:   41 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 39 | flu:  0 .  2 | ran:   13 .   13 | per:   41 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 39 | flu:  0 .  2 | ran:   13 .   13 | per:   41 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 39 | flu:  0 .  2 | ran:   13 .   13 | per:   41 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 39 | flu:  0 .  1 | ran:   13 .   13 | per:   41 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 39 | flu:  0 .  1 | ran:   13 .   13 | per:   41 .   40

this patch has no impact on any fastpath or on any globally observable
scheduling property. (unless you have sharp enough eyes to see
millisecond-level ruckles in glxgears smoothness :-)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2007-08-28 12:53:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
50c46637aa sched: s/sched_latency/sched_min_granularity
runtime limit and wakeup granularity used to be a function of
granularity and that was incorrect changed to sched_latency.

Fix this to make wakeup granularity a function of min-granularity,
and the runtime limit equal to latency.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-25 22:17:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
172ac3dbb7 sched: cleanup, sched_granularity -> sched_min_granularity
due to adaptive granularity scheduling the role of sched_granularity
has changed to "minimum granularity", so rename the variable (and the
tunable) accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-08-25 18:41:53 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
218050855e sched: adaptive scheduler granularity
Instead of specifying the preemption granularity, specify the wanted
latency. By fixing the granlarity to a constany the wakeup latency
it a function of the number of running tasks on the rq.

Invert this relation.

sysctl_sched_granularity becomes a minimum for the dynamic granularity
computed from the new sysctl_sched_latency.

Then use this latency to do more intelligent granularity decisions: if
there are fewer tasks running then we can schedule coarser. This helps
performance while still always keeping the latency target.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-25 18:41:53 +02:00
Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
deac4ee65a sched: simplify can_migrate_task()
Remove trivial conditional branch in Linux scheduler's
can_migrate_task() function.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   34770    2998      24   37792    93a0 sched.o.before
   34757    2998      24   37779    9393 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sven@thebigcorporation.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-24 20:39:10 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
71fd371463 sched: remove HZ dependency from the granularity default
remove HZ dependency from the granularity default. Use 10 msec for
the base granularity, 1 msec for wakeup granularity and 25 msec for
batch wakeup granularity. (These defaults are close to the values
that the default HZ=250 setting got previously, and thus it's the
most common setting.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-24 20:39:10 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
505c0efd58 sched: tweak the sched_runtime_limit tunable
Michael Gerdau reported reniced task CPU usage weirdnesses.
Such symptoms can be caused by limit underruns so double the
sched_runtime_limit.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-23 15:18:02 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
f549da848e sched: skip updating rq's next_balance under null SD
Was playing with sched_smt_power_savings/sched_mc_power_savings and
found out that while the scheduler domains are reconstructed when sysfs
settings change, rebalance_domains() can get triggered with null domain
on other cpus, which is setting next_balance to jiffies + 60*HZ.
Resulting in no idle/busy balancing for 60 seconds.

Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-23 15:18:02 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
f8700df7c4 sched: fix broken SMT/MC optimizations
On a four package system with HT - HT load balancing optimizations were
broken.  For example, if two tasks end up running on two logical threads
of one of the packages, scheduler is not able to pull one of the tasks
to a completely idle package.

In this scenario, for nice-0 tasks, imbalance calculated by scheduler
will be 512 and find_busiest_queue() will return 0 (as each cpu's load
is 1024 > imbalance and has only one task running).

Similarly MC scheduler optimizations also get fixed with this patch.

[ mingo@elte.hu: restored fair balancing by increasing the fuzz and
                 adding it back to the power decision, without the /2
                 factor. ]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-23 15:18:02 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman
c57baf1e1e sched: fix sysctl directory permissions
There are two remaining gotchas:

- The directories have impossible permissions (writeable).

- The ctl_name for the kernel directory is inconsistent with
  everything else.  It should be CTL_KERN.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-23 15:18:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2aa44d0567 sched: sched_clock_idle_[sleep|wakeup]_event()
construct a more or less wall-clock time out of sched_clock(), by
using ACPI-idle's existing knowledge about how much time we spent
idling. This allows the rq clock to work around TSC-stops-in-C2,
TSC-gets-corrupted-in-C3 type of problems.

( Besides the scheduler's statistics this also benefits blktrace and
  printk-timestamps as well. )

Furthermore, the precise before-C2/C3-sleep and after-C2/C3-wakeup
callbacks allow the scheduler to get out the most of the period where
the CPU has a reliable TSC. This results in slightly more precise
task statistics.

the ACPI bits were acked by Len.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-23 15:18:02 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
de0cf899bb sched: run_rebalance_domains: s/SCHED_IDLE/CPU_IDLE/
rebalance_domains(SCHED_IDLE) looks strange (typo), change it to CPU_IDLE.

the effect of this bug was slightly more agressive idle-balancing on
SMP than intended.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-12 18:08:19 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
6707de00fd sched: make global code static
This patch makes the following needlessly global code static:

- arch_reinit_sched_domains()
- struct attr_sched_mc_power_savings
- struct attr_sched_smt_power_savings

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-12 18:08:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
529c77261b sched: improve rq-clock overflow logic
improve the rq-clock overflow logic: limit the absolute rq->clock
delta since the last scheduler tick, instead of limiting the delta
itself.

tested by Arjan van de Ven - whole laptop was misbehaving due to
an incorrectly calibrated cpu_khz confusing sched_clock().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2007-08-10 23:05:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
194081ebfa sched: round a bit better
round a tiny bit better in high-frequency rescheduling scenarios,
by rounding around zero instead of rounding down.

(this is pretty theoretical though)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:51 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
254753dc32 sched: make the multiplication table more accurate
do small deltas in the weight and multiplication constant table so
that the worst-case numeric error is better than 1:100000000. (8 digits)

the current error table is:

     nice       mult *   inv_mult   error
     ------------------------------------------
     -20:      88761 *      48388  -0.0000000065
     -19:      71755 *      59856  -0.0000000037
     -18:      56483 *      76040   0.0000000056
     -17:      46273 *      92818   0.0000000042
     -16:      36291 *     118348  -0.0000000065
     -15:      29154 *     147320  -0.0000000037
     -14:      23254 *     184698  -0.0000000009
     -13:      18705 *     229616  -0.0000000037
     -12:      14949 *     287308  -0.0000000009
     -11:      11916 *     360437  -0.0000000009
     -10:       9548 *     449829  -0.0000000009
      -9:       7620 *     563644  -0.0000000037
      -8:       6100 *     704093   0.0000000009
      -7:       4904 *     875809   0.0000000093
      -6:       3906 *    1099582  -0.0000000009
      -5:       3121 *    1376151  -0.0000000058
      -4:       2501 *    1717300   0.0000000009
      -3:       1991 *    2157191  -0.0000000035
      -2:       1586 *    2708050   0.0000000009
      -1:       1277 *    3363326   0.0000000014
       0:       1024 *    4194304   0.0000000000
       1:        820 *    5237765   0.0000000009
       2:        655 *    6557202   0.0000000033
       3:        526 *    8165337  -0.0000000079
       4:        423 *   10153587   0.0000000012
       5:        335 *   12820798   0.0000000079
       6:        272 *   15790321   0.0000000037
       7:        215 *   19976592  -0.0000000037
       8:        172 *   24970740  -0.0000000037
       9:        137 *   31350126  -0.0000000079
      10:        110 *   39045157  -0.0000000061
      11:         87 *   49367440  -0.0000000037
      12:         70 *   61356676   0.0000000056
      13:         56 *   76695844  -0.0000000075
      14:         45 *   95443717  -0.0000000072
      15:         36 *  119304647  -0.0000000009
      16:         29 *  148102320  -0.0000000037
      17:         23 *  186737708  -0.0000000028
      18:         18 *  238609294  -0.0000000009
      19:         15 *  286331153  -0.0000000002

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:51 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
6e82a3befe sched: optimize update_rq_clock() calls in the load-balancer
optimize update_rq_clock() calls in the load-balancer: update them
right after locking the runqueue(s) so that the pull functions do
not have to call it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:51 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2daa357705 sched: optimize activate_task()
optimize activate_task() by removing update_rq_clock() from it.
(and add update_rq_clock() to all callsites of activate_task() that
did not have it before.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:51 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
546fe3c909 sched: move the __update_rq_clock() call to scheduler_tick()
move the __update_rq_clock() call from update_cpu_load() to
scheduler_tick().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

this allows the direct use of rq->clock in ->task_tick() functions.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:51 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
bdd4dfa89c sched: remove the 'u64 now' local variables
final step: remove all (now superfluous) 'u64 now' variables.

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:51 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2e1cb74a50 sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from deactivate_task()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from deactivate_task().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
69be72c13d sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dequeue_task()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dequeue_task().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8159f87e2b sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from enqueue_task()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from enqueue_task().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
db53181e41 sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dec_nr_running()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dec_nr_running().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e5fa2237b5 sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from inc_nr_running()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from inc_nr_running().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
79b5dddf83 sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dec_load()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dec_load().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
29b4b623fe sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from inc_load()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from inc_load().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
84a1d7a2f9 sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from update_curr_load()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from update_curr_load().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ee0827d8b5 sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->task_new()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->task_new().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00