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2011-10-06sched: Warn on rt throttlingThomas Gleixner
The default rt-throttling is a source of never ending questions. Warn once when we go into throttling so folks have that info in dmesg. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1110051331480.18778@ionos Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-06sched: Unify the ->cpus_allowed mask copyPeter Zijlstra
Currently every sched_class::set_cpus_allowed() implementation has to copy the cpumask into task_struct::cpus_allowed, this is pointless, put this copy in the generic code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jhl5s9fckd9ptw1fzbqqlrd3@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-06sched: Wrap scheduler p->cpus_allowed accessPeter Zijlstra
This task is preparatory for the migrate_disable() implementation, but stands on its own and provides a cleanup. It currently only converts those sites required for task-placement. Kosaki-san once mentioned replacing cpus_allowed with a proper cpumask_t instead of the NR_CPUS sized array it currently is, that would also require something like this. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e42skvaddos99psip0vce41o@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-04Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-09-18sched/rt: Migrate equal priority tasks to available CPUsShawn Bohrer
Commit 43fa5460fe60dea5c610490a1d263415419c60f6 ("sched: Try not to migrate higher priority RT tasks") also introduced a change in behavior which keeps RT tasks on the same CPU if there is an equal priority RT task currently running even if there are empty CPUs available. This can cause unnecessary wakeup latencies, and can prevent the scheduler from balancing all RT tasks across available CPUs. This change causes an RT task to search for a new CPU if an equal priority RT task is already running on wakeup. Lower priority tasks will still have to wait on higher priority tasks, but the system should still balance out because there is always the possibility that if there are both a high and low priority RT tasks on a given CPU that the high priority task could wakeup while the low priority task is running and force it to search for a better runqueue. Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 37+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315837684-18733-1-git-send-email-sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14sched: Implement hierarchical task accounting for SCHED_OTHERPaul Turner
Introduce hierarchical task accounting for the group scheduling case in CFS, as well as promoting the responsibility for maintaining rq->nr_running to the scheduling classes. The primary motivation for this is that with scheduling classes supporting bandwidth throttling it is possible for entities participating in throttled sub-trees to not have root visible changes in rq->nr_running across activate and de-activate operations. This in turn leads to incorrect idle and weight-per-task load balance decisions. This also allows us to make a small fixlet to the fastpath in pick_next_task() under group scheduling. Note: this issue also exists with the existing sched_rt throttling mechanism. This patch does not address that. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184756.878333391@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14sched: Use pushable_tasks to determine next highest prioSteven Rostedt
Hillf Danton proposed a patch (see link) that cleaned up the sched_rt code that calculates the priority of the next highest priority task to be used in finding run queues to pull from. His patch removed the calculating of the next prio to just use the current prio when deteriming if we should examine a run queue to pull from. The problem with his patch was that it caused more false checks. Because we check a run queue for pushable tasks if the current priority of that run queue is higher in priority than the task about to run on our run queue. But after grabbing the locks and doing the real check, we find that there may not be a task that has a higher prio task to pull. Thus the locks were taken with nothing to do. I added some trace_printks() to record when and how many times the run queue locks were taken to check for pullable tasks, compared to how many times we pulled a task. With the current method, it was: 3806 locks taken vs 2812 pulled tasks With Hillf's patch: 6728 locks taken vs 2804 pulled tasks The number of times locks were taken to pull a task went up almost double with no more success rate. But his patch did get me thinking. When we look at the priority of the highest task to consider taking the locks to do a pull, a failure to pull can be one of the following: (in order of most likely) o RT task was pushed off already between the check and taking the lock o Waiting RT task can not be migrated o RT task's CPU affinity does not include the target run queue's CPU o RT task's priority changed between the check and taking the lock And with Hillf's patch, the thing that caused most of the failures, is the RT task to pull was not at the right priority to pull (not greater than the current RT task priority on the target run queue). Most of the above cases we can't help. But the current method does not check if the next highest prio RT task can be migrated or not, and if it can not, we still grab the locks to do the test (we don't find out about this fact until after we have the locks). I thought about this case, and realized that the pushable task plist that is maintained only holds RT tasks that can migrate. If we move the calculating of the next highest prio task from the inc/dec_rt_task() functions into the queuing of the pushable tasks, then we only measure the priorities of those tasks that we push, and we get this basically for free. Not only does this patch make the code a little more efficient, it cleans it up and makes it a little simpler. Thanks to Hillf Danton for inspiring me on this patch. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTimQ67180HxCx5vgMqumqw1EkFh3qg@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14sched: Balance RT tasks when forked as wellSteven Rostedt
When a new task is woken, the code to balance the RT task is currently skipped in the select_task_rq() call. But it will be pushed if the rq is currently overloaded with RT tasks anyway. The issue is that we already queued the task, and if it does get pushed, it will have to be dequeued and requeued on the new run queue. The advantage with pushing it first is that we avoid this requeuing as we are pushing it off before the task is ever queued. See commit 318e0893ce3f524 ("sched: pre-route RT tasks on wakeup") for more details. The return of select_task_rq() when it is not a wake up has also been changed to return task_cpu() instead of smp_processor_id(). This is more of a sanity because the current only other user of select_task_rq() besides wake ups, is an exec, where task_cpu() should also be the same as smp_processor_id(). But if it is used for other purposes, lets keep the task on the same CPU. Why would we mant to migrate it to the current CPU? Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110617015919.832743148@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14sched: Remove resetting exec_start in put_prev_task_rt()Hillf Danton
There's no reason to clean the exec_start in put_prev_task_rt() as it is reset when the task gets back to the run queue. This saves us doing a store() in the fast path. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTimqWD=q6YnSDi-v9y=LMWecgEzEWg@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14sched, rt: Fix rq->rt.pushable_tasks bug in push_rt_task()Hillf Danton
Do not call dequeue_pushable_task() when failing to push an eligible task, as it remains pushable, merely not at this particular moment. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306895385.4791.26.camel@marge.simson.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14sched: Remove noop in next_prio()Hillf Danton
When computing the next priority for a given run-queue, the check for RT priority of the task determined by the pick_next_highest_task_rt() function could be removed, since only RT tasks are returned by the function. Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTimxmWiof9s5AvS3v_0X+sMiE=0x5g@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01sched: Skip autogroup when looking for all rt sched groupsYong Zhang
Since commit ec514c48 ("sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bug") 'cat /proc/sched_debug' will print data of root_task_group.rt_rq multiple times. This is because autogroup does not have its own rt group, instead rt group of autogroup is linked to root_task_group. So skip it when we are looking for all rt sched groups, and it will also save some noop operation against root_task_group when __disable_runtime()/__enable_runtime(). -v2: Based on Cheng Xu's idea which uses less code. Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Cheng Xu <chengxu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTi=87P3RoTF_UEtamNfc_XGxQXE__Q@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01Merge commit 'v3.0-rc5' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Move to a (much) newer base. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-15sched: Check if lowest_mask is initialized in find_lowest_rq()Steven Rostedt
On system boot up, the lowest_mask is initialized with an early_initcall(). But RT tasks may wake up on other early_initcall() callers before the lowest_mask is initialized, causing a system crash. Commit "d72bce0e67 rcu: Cure load woes" was the first commit to wake up RT tasks in early init. Before this commit this bug should not happen. Reported-by: Andrew Theurer <habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Andrew Theurer <habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110614223657.824872966@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-15sched: Fix need_resched() when checking peemptHillf Danton
The RT preempt check tests the wrong task if NEED_RESCHED is set. It currently checks the local CPU task. It is supposed to check the task that is running on the runqueue we are about to wake another task on. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110614223657.450239027@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-03Merge branch 'unlikely/sched' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into sched/urgent
2011-05-28sched: More sched_domain iterations fixesXiaotian Feng
sched_domain iterations needs to be protected by rcu_read_lock() now, this patch adds another two places which needs the rcu lock, which is spotted by following suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage warnings. kernel/sched_rt.c:1244 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! kernel/sched_stats.h:41 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303469634-11678-1-git-send-email-dfeng@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-20Merge branches 'sched-core-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits) sched: Fix and optimise calculation of the weight-inverse sched: Avoid going ahead if ->cpus_allowed is not changed sched, rt: Update rq clock when unthrottling of an otherwise idle CPU sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task() sched: Shorten the construction of the span cpu mask of sched domain sched: Wrap the 'cfs_rq->nr_spread_over' field with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG sched: Remove unused 'this_best_prio arg' from balance_tasks() sched: Remove noop in alloc_rt_sched_group() sched: Get rid of lock_depth sched: Remove obsolete comment from scheduler_tick() sched: Fix sched_domain iterations vs. RCU sched: Next buddy hint on sleep and preempt path sched: Make set_*_buddy() work on non-task entities sched: Remove need_migrate_task() sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu sched: Restructure ttwu() some more sched: Rename ttwu_post_activation() to ttwu_do_wakeup() sched: Remove rq argument from ttwu_stat() sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu() sched: Drop rq->lock from sched_exec() ... * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bug
2011-05-16sched, rt: Update rq clock when unthrottling of an otherwise idle CPUMike Galbraith
If an RT task is awakened while it's rt_rq is throttled, the time between wakeup/enqueue and unthrottle/selection may be accounted as rt_time if the CPU is idle. Set rq->skip_clock_update negative upon throttle release to tell put_prev_task() that we need a clock update. Reported-by: Thomas Giesel <skoe@directbox.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304059010.7472.1.camel@marge.simson.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-16sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bugCheng Xu
This patch is to fix the real-time scheduler bug reported at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/26/13 That is, when running multiple real-time threads on every logical CPUs and then turning off one CPU, the kernel will bug at function __disable_runtime(). Function __disable_runtime() bugs and reports leakage of rt_rq runtime. The root cause is __disable_runtime() assumes it iterates through all the existing rt_rq's while walking rq->leaf_rt_rq_list, which actually contains only runnable rt_rq's. This problem also applies to __enable_runtime() and print_rt_stats(). The patch is based on above analysis, appears to fix the problem, but is only lightly tested. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cheng Xu <chengxu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DCE1F12.6040609@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-14sched: Drop the rq argument to sched_class::select_task_rq()Peter Zijlstra
In preparation of calling select_task_rq() without rq->lock held, drop the dependency on the rq argument. Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152729.031077745@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-14sched: Provide p->on_rqPeter Zijlstra
Provide a generic p->on_rq because the p->se.on_rq semantics are unfavourable for lockless wakeups but needed for sched_fair. In particular, p->on_rq is only cleared when we actually dequeue the task in schedule() and not on any random dequeue as done by things like __migrate_task() and __sched_setscheduler(). This also allows us to remove p->se usage from !sched_fair code. Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152728.949545047@chello.nl
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-04Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Add fixes before applying dependent patches. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-04sched: Fix sched rt group scheduling when hierachy is enabledBalbir Singh
The current sched rt code is broken when it comes to hierarchical scheduling, this patch fixes two problems 1. It adds redundant enqueuing (harmless) when it finds a queue has tasks enqueued, but it has no run time and it is not throttled. 2. The most important change is in sched_rt_rq_enqueue/dequeue. The code just picks the rt_rq belonging to the current cpu on which the period timer runs, the patch fixes it, so that the correct rt_se is enqueued/dequeued. Tested with a simple hierarchy /c/d, c and d assigned similar runtimes of 50,000 and a while 1 loop runs within "d". Both c and d get throttled, without the patch, the task just stops running and never runs (depends on where the sched_rt b/w timer runs). With the patch, the task is throttled and runs as expected. [ bharata, suggestions on how to pick the rt_se belong to the rt_rq and correct cpu ] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20110303113435.GA2868@balbir.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-16Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc5' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Pick up upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03sched: Fix update_curr_rt()Peter Zijlstra
cpu_stopper_thread() migration_cpu_stop() __migrate_task() deactivate_task() dequeue_task() dequeue_task_rq() update_curr_rt() Will call update_curr_rt() on rq->curr, which at that time is rq->stop. The problem is that rq->stop.prio matches an RT prio and thus falsely assumes its a rt_sched_class task. Reported-Debuged-Tested-Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: stable@kernel.org # .37 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26sched: Fix switch_from_fair()Peter Zijlstra
When a task is taken out of the fair class we must ensure the vruntime is properly normalized because when we put it back in it will assume to be normalized. The case that goes wrong is when changing away from the fair class while sleeping. Sleeping tasks have non-normalized vruntime in order to make sleeper-fairness work. So treat the switch away from fair as a wakeup and preserve the relative vruntime. Also update sysrq-n to call the ->switch_{to,from} methods. Reported-by: Onkalo Samu <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-14sched: Change pick_next_task_rt from unlikely to likelySteven Rostedt
The if (unlikely(!rt_rq->rt_nr_running)) test in pick_next_task_rt() tests if there is another rt task ready to run. If so, then pick it. In most systems, only one RT task runs at a time most of the time. Running the branch unlikely annotator profiler on a system doing average work "running firefox, evolution, xchat, distcc builds, etc", it showed the following: correct incorrect % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 324344 135104992 99 _pick_next_task_rt sched_rt.c 1064 99% of the time the condition is true. When an RT task schedules out, it is unlikely that another RT task is waiting to run on that same run queue. Simply remove the unlikely() condition. Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Cc:Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-12-13sched: Cleanup pre_schedule_rtYong Zhang
Since [commit 9a897c5a: sched: RT-balance, replace hooks with pre/post schedule and wakeup methods] we must call pre_schedule_rt if prev is rt task. So condition rt_task(prev) is always true and the 'unlikely' declaration is simply incorrect. Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-11-18sched: Implement on-demand (active) cfs_rq listPeter Zijlstra
Make certain load-balance actions scale per number of active cgroups instead of the number of existing cgroups. This makes wakeup/sleep paths more expensive, but is a win for systems where the vast majority of existing cgroups are idle. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.666535048@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18sched: Do not account irq time to current taskVenkatesh Pallipadi
Scheduler accounts both softirq and interrupt processing times to the currently running task. This means, if the interrupt processing was for some other task in the system, then the current task ends up being penalized as it gets shorter runtime than otherwise. Change sched task accounting to acoount only actual task time from currently running task. Now update_curr(), modifies the delta_exec to depend on rq->clock_task. Note that this change only handles CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING case. We can extend this to CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING with minimal effort. But, thats for later. This change will impact scheduling behavior in interrupt heavy conditions. Tested on a 4-way system with eth0 handled by CPU 2 and a network heavy task (nc) running on CPU 3 (and no RSS/RFS). With that I have CPU 2 spending 75%+ of its time in irq processing. CPU 3 spending around 35% time running nc task. Now, if I run another CPU intensive task on CPU 2, without this change /proc/<pid>/schedstat shows 100% of time accounted to this task. With this change, it rightly shows less than 25% accounted to this task as remaining time is actually spent on irq processing. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-7-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18sched: Unindent labelsPeter Zijlstra
Labels should be on column 0. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-21sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preferenceSteven Rostedt
If a high priority task is waking up on a CPU that is running a lower priority task that is bound to a CPU, see if we can move the high RT task to another CPU first. Note, if all other CPUs are running higher priority tasks than the CPU bounded current task, then it will be preempted regardless. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <20100921024138.888922071@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-21sched: Try not to migrate higher priority RT tasksSteven Rostedt
When first working on the RT scheduler design, we concentrated on keeping all CPUs running RT tasks instead of having multiple RT tasks on a single CPU waiting for the migration thread to move them. Instead we take a more proactive stance and push or pull RT tasks from one CPU to another on wakeup or scheduling. When an RT task wakes up on a CPU that is running another RT task, instead of preempting it and killing the cache of the running RT task, we look to see if we can migrate the RT task that is waking up, even if the RT task waking up is of higher priority. This may sound a bit odd, but RT tasks should be limited in migration by the user anyway. But in practice, people do not do this, which causes high prio RT tasks to bounce around the CPUs. This becomes even worse when we have priority inheritance, because a high prio task can block on a lower prio task and boost its priority. When the lower prio task wakes up the high prio task, if it happens to be on the same CPU it will migrate off of it. But in reality, the above does not happen much either, because the wake up of the lower prio task, which has already been boosted, if it was on the same CPU as the higher prio task, it would then migrate off of it. But anyway, we do not want to migrate them either. To examine the scheduling, I created a test program and examined it under kernelshark. The test program created CPU * 2 threads, where each thread had a different priority. The program takes different options. The options used in this change log was to have priority inheritance mutexes or not. All threads did the following loop: static void grab_lock(long id, int iter, int l) { ftrace_write("thread %ld iter %d, taking lock %d\n", id, iter, l); pthread_mutex_lock(&locks[l]); ftrace_write("thread %ld iter %d, took lock %d\n", id, iter, l); busy_loop(nr_tasks - id); ftrace_write("thread %ld iter %d, unlock lock %d\n", id, iter, l); pthread_mutex_unlock(&locks[l]); } void *start_task(void *id) { [...] while (!done) { for (l = 0; l < nr_locks; l++) { grab_lock(id, i, l); ftrace_write("thread %ld iter %d sleeping\n", id, i); ms_sleep(id); } i++; } [...] } The busy_loop(ms) keeps the CPU spinning for ms milliseconds. The ms_sleep(ms) sleeps for ms milliseconds. The ftrace_write() writes to the ftrace buffer to help analyze via ftrace. The higher the id, the higher the prio, the shorter it does the busy loop, but the longer it spins. This is usually the case with RT tasks, the lower priority tasks usually run longer than higher priority tasks. At the end of the test, it records the number of loops each thread took, as well as the number of voluntary preemptions, non-voluntary preemptions, and number of migrations each thread took, taking the information from /proc/$$/sched and /proc/$$/status. Running this on a 4 CPU processor, the results without changes to the kernel looked like this: Task vol nonvol migrated iterations ---- --- ------ -------- ---------- 0: 53 3220 1470 98 1: 562 773 724 98 2: 752 933 1375 98 3: 749 39 697 98 4: 758 5 515 98 5: 764 2 679 99 6: 761 2 535 99 7: 757 3 346 99 total: 5156 4977 6341 787 Each thread regardless of priority migrated a few hundred times. The higher priority tasks, were a little better but still took quite an impact. By letting higher priority tasks bump the lower prio task from the CPU, things changed a bit: Task vol nonvol migrated iterations ---- --- ------ -------- ---------- 0: 37 2835 1937 98 1: 666 1821 1865 98 2: 654 1003 1385 98 3: 664 635 973 99 4: 698 197 352 99 5: 703 101 159 99 6: 708 1 75 99 7: 713 1 2 99 total: 4843 6594 6748 789 The total # of migrations did not change (several runs showed the difference all within the noise). But we now see a dramatic improvement to the higher priority tasks. (kernelshark showed that the watchdog timer bumped the highest priority task to give it the 2 count. This was actually consistent with every run). Notice that the # of iterations did not change either. The above was with priority inheritance mutexes. That is, when the higher prority task blocked on a lower priority task, the lower priority task would inherit the higher priority task (which shows why task 6 was bumped so many times). When not using priority inheritance mutexes, the current kernel shows this: Task vol nonvol migrated iterations ---- --- ------ -------- ---------- 0: 56 3101 1892 95 1: 594 713 937 95 2: 625 188 618 95 3: 628 4 491 96 4: 640 7 468 96 5: 631 2 501 96 6: 641 1 466 96 7: 643 2 497 96 total: 4458 4018 5870 765 Not much changed with or without priority inheritance mutexes. But if we let the high priority task bump lower priority tasks on wakeup we see: Task vol nonvol migrated iterations ---- --- ------ -------- ---------- 0: 115 3439 2782 98 1: 633 1354 1583 99 2: 652 919 1218 99 3: 645 713 934 99 4: 690 3 3 99 5: 694 1 4 99 6: 720 3 4 99 7: 747 0 1 100 Which shows a even bigger change. The big difference between task 3 and task 4 is because we have only 4 CPUs on the machine, causing the 4 highest prio tasks to always have preference. Although I did not measure cache misses, and I'm sure there would be little to measure since the test was not data intensive, I could imagine large improvements for higher priority tasks when dealing with lower priority tasks. Thus, I'm satisfied with making the change and agreeing with what Gregory Haskins argued a few years ago when we first had this discussion. One final note. All tasks in the above tests were RT tasks. Any RT task will always preempt a non RT task that is running on the CPU the RT task wants to run on. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <20100921024138.605460343@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18sched: task_tick_rt: Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL checkOleg Nesterov
Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check in watchdog(). Since ea6d290c ->signal can't be NULL. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100610230948.GA25911@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02sched: Add enqueue/dequeue flagsPeter Zijlstra
In order to reduce the dependency on TASK_WAKING rework the enqueue interface to support a proper flags field. Replace the int wakeup, bool head arguments with an int flags argument and create the following flags: ENQUEUE_WAKEUP - the enqueue is a wakeup of a sleeping task, ENQUEUE_WAKING - the enqueue has relative vruntime due to having sched_class::task_waking() called, ENQUEUE_HEAD - the waking task should be places on the head of the priority queue (where appropriate). For symmetry also convert sched_class::dequeue() to a flags scheme. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02sched: Fix TASK_WAKING vs fork deadlockPeter Zijlstra
Oleg noticed a few races with the TASK_WAKING usage on fork. - since TASK_WAKING is basically a spinlock, it should be IRQ safe - since we set TASK_WAKING (*) without holding rq->lock it could be there still is a rq->lock holder, thereby not actually providing full serialization. (*) in fact we clear PF_STARTING, which in effect enables TASK_WAKING. Cure the second issue by not setting TASK_WAKING in sched_fork(), but only temporarily in wake_up_new_task() while calling select_task_rq(). Cure the first by holding rq->lock around the select_task_rq() call, this will disable IRQs, this however requires that we push down the rq->lock release into select_task_rq_fair()'s cgroup stuff. Because select_task_rq_fair() still needs to drop the rq->lock we cannot fully get rid of TASK_WAKING. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: update to latest upstream Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-13Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix pick_next_highest_task_rt() for cgroups sched: Cleanup: remove unused variable in try_to_wake_up() x86: Fix sched_clock_cpu for systems with unsynchronized TSC
2010-03-11sched: Implement group scheduler statistics in one structLucas De Marchi
Put all statistic fields of sched_entity in one struct, sched_statistics, and embed it into sched_entity. This change allows to memset the sched_statistics to 0 when needed (for instance when forking), avoiding bugs of non initialized fields. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268275065-18542-1-git-send-email-lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11sched: Fix pick_next_highest_task_rt() for cgroupsPeter Zijlstra
Since pick_next_highest_task_rt() already iterates all the cgroups and is really only interested in tasks, skip over the !task entries. Reported-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-06kernel core: use helpers for rlimitsJiri Slaby
Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits. E.g. fetching them twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented. I.e. either use rlimit helpers added in commit 3e10e716abf3 ("resource: add helpers for fetching rlimits") or ACCESS_ONCE if not applicable. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-04sched: Change usage of rt_rq->rt_se to rt_rq->tg->rt_se[cpu]Yong Zhang
This is the first step to remove rt_rq member rt_se because it have the same meaning with tg->rt_se[cpu]. And the latter style is also used by the fair scheduling class. Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <2674af741001282257r28c97a92o9f90cf16fe8d3d84@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-22sched: Implement head queueing for sched_rtThomas Gleixner
The ability of enqueueing a task to the head of a SCHED_FIFO priority list is required to fix some violations of POSIX scheduling policy. Implement the functionality in sched_rt. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Carsten Emde <cbe@osadl.org> Tested-by: Mathias Weber <mathias.weber.mw1@roche.com> LKML-Reference: <20100120171629.772169931@linutronix.de>
2010-01-22sched: Extend enqueue_task to allow head queueingThomas Gleixner
The ability of enqueueing a task to the head of a SCHED_FIFO priority list is required to fix some violations of POSIX scheduling policy. Extend the related functions with a "head" argument. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Carsten Emde <cbe@osadl.org> Tested-by: Mathias Weber <mathias.weber.mw1@roche.com> LKML-Reference: <20100120171629.734886007@linutronix.de>
2010-01-21sched: Remove the sched_class load_balance methodsPeter Zijlstra
Take out the sched_class methods for load-balancing. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-17sched: Don't expose local functionsH Hartley Sweeten
kernel/sched: don't expose local functions The get_rr_interval_* functions are all class methods of struct sched_class. They are not exported so make them static. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <201001132021.53253.hartleys@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-16sched: Add pre and post wakeup hooksPeter Zijlstra
As will be apparent in the next patch, we need a pre wakeup hook for sched_fair task migration, hence rename the post wakeup hook and one pre wakeup. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.114746117@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14sched: Convert rt_runtime_lock to raw_spinlockThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>