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2011-07-22sched: Cleanup duplicate local variable in [enqueue|dequeue]_task_fairLin Ming
No need to define a new "cfs_rq" variable in the "for" block. Just use the one at the top of the function. Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311297271.3938.1352.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21sched: Replace use of entity_key()Stephan Baerwolf
"entity_key()" is only used in "__enqueue_entity()" and its only function is to subtract a tasks vruntime by its groups minvruntime. Before this patch a rbtree enqueue-decision is done by comparing two tasks in the style: "if (entity_key(cfs_rq, se) < entity_key(cfs_rq, entry))" which would be "if (se->vruntime-cfs_rq->min_vruntime < entry->vruntime-cfs_rq->min_vruntime)" or (if reducing cfs_rq->min_vruntime out) "if (se->vruntime < entry->vruntime)" which is "if (entity_before(se, entry))" So we do not need "entity_key()". If "entity_before()" is inline we will also save one subtraction (only one, because "entity_key(cfs_rq, se)" was cached in "key") Signed-off-by: Stephan Baerwolf <stephan.baerwolf@tu-ilmenau.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ns12mnd2h5w8rb9agd8hnsfk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21sched: Remove unused function cpu_cfs_rq()Jan Schoenherr
The last reference to cpu_cfs_rq() was removed with commit 88ec22d3 ("sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu()"). Thus, remove this function, too. Signed-off-by: Jan Schoenherr <schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310580816-10861-3-git-send-email-schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21sched, cgroup: Optimize load_balance_fair()Peter Zijlstra
Use for_each_leaf_cfs_rq() instead of list_for_each_entry_rcu(), this achieves that load_balance_fair() only iterates those task_groups that actually have tasks on busiest, and that we iterate bottom-up, trying to move light groups before the heavier ones. No idea if it will actually work out to be beneficial in practice, does anybody have a cgroup workload that might show a difference one way or the other? [ Also move update_h_load to sched_fair.c, loosing #ifdef-ery ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310557009.2586.28.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21sched: Don't update shares twice on on_rq parentPaul Turner
In dequeue_task_fair() we bail on dequeue when we encounter a parenting entity with additional weight. However, we perform a double shares update on this entity as we continue the shares update traversal from this point, despite dequeue_entity() having already updated its queuing cfs_rq. Avoid this by starting from the parent when we resume. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110707053059.797714697@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21sched: update correct entity's runtime in check_preempt_wakeup()Paul Turner
While looking at check_preempt_wakeup() I realized that we are potentially updating the wrong entity in the fair-group scheduling case. In this case the current task's cfs_rq may not be the same as the one used for the comparison between the waking task and the existing task's vruntime. This potentially results in us using a stale vruntime in the pre-emption decision, providing a small false preference for the previous task. The effects of this are bounded since we always perform a hierarchal update on the tick. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAPM31R+2Ke2urUZKao5W92_LupdR4AYEv-EZWiJ3tG=tEes2cw@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: pick up the latest scheduler fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-20sched: Break out cpu_power from the sched_group structurePeter Zijlstra
In order to prepare for non-unique sched_groups per domain, we need to carry the cpu_power elsewhere, so put a level of indirection in. Reported-and-tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qkho2byuhe4482fuknss40ad@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01sched: Remove rcu_read_lock() from wake_affine()Nikunj A. Dadhania
wake_affine() is only called from one path: select_task_rq_fair(), which already has the RCU read lock held. Signed-off-by: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110607101251.777.34547.stgit@IBM-009124035060.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28sched: Fix ->min_vruntime calculation in dequeue_entity()Peter Zijlstra
Dima Zavin <dima@android.com> reported: "After pulling the thread off the run-queue during a cgroup change, the cfs_rq.min_vruntime gets recalculated. The dequeued thread's vruntime then gets normalized to this new value. This can then lead to the thread getting an unfair boost in the new group if the vruntime of the next task in the old run-queue was way further ahead." Reported-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Recalls-having-tested-once-upon-a-time-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305674470-23727-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-20sched: Introduce SCHED_POWER_SCALE to scale cpu_power calculationsNikhil Rao
SCHED_LOAD_SCALE is used to increase nice resolution and to scale cpu_power calculations in the scheduler. This patch introduces SCHED_POWER_SCALE and converts all uses of SCHED_LOAD_SCALE for scaling cpu_power to use SCHED_POWER_SCALE instead. This is a preparatory patch for increasing the resolution of SCHED_LOAD_SCALE, and there is no need to increase resolution for cpu_power calculations. Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Stephan Barwolf <stephan.baerwolf@tu-ilmenau.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305738580-9924-3-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-04sched: Remove unused 'this_best_prio arg' from balance_tasks()Vladimir Davydov
It's passed across multiple functions but is never really used, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304447467-29200-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@parallels.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-19sched: Next buddy hint on sleep and preempt pathVenkatesh Pallipadi
When a task in a taskgroup sleeps, pick_next_task starts all the way back at the root and picks the task/taskgroup with the min vruntime across all runnable tasks. But when there are many frequently sleeping tasks across different taskgroups, it makes better sense to stay with same taskgroup for its slice period (or until all tasks in the taskgroup sleeps) instead of switching cross taskgroup on each sleep after a short runtime. This helps specifically where taskgroups corresponds to a process with multiple threads. The change reduces the number of CR3 switches in this case. Example: Two taskgroups with 2 threads each which are running for 2ms and sleeping for 1ms. Looking at sched:sched_switch shows: BEFORE: taskgroup_1 threads [5004, 5005], taskgroup_2 threads [5016, 5017] cpu-soaker-5004 [003] 3683.391089 cpu-soaker-5016 [003] 3683.393106 cpu-soaker-5005 [003] 3683.395119 cpu-soaker-5017 [003] 3683.397130 cpu-soaker-5004 [003] 3683.399143 cpu-soaker-5016 [003] 3683.401155 cpu-soaker-5005 [003] 3683.403168 cpu-soaker-5017 [003] 3683.405170 AFTER: taskgroup_1 threads [21890, 21891], taskgroup_2 threads [21934, 21935] cpu-soaker-21890 [003] 865.895494 cpu-soaker-21935 [003] 865.897506 cpu-soaker-21934 [003] 865.899520 cpu-soaker-21935 [003] 865.901532 cpu-soaker-21934 [003] 865.903543 cpu-soaker-21935 [003] 865.905546 cpu-soaker-21891 [003] 865.907548 cpu-soaker-21890 [003] 865.909560 cpu-soaker-21891 [003] 865.911571 cpu-soaker-21890 [003] 865.913582 cpu-soaker-21891 [003] 865.915594 cpu-soaker-21934 [003] 865.917606 Similar problem is there when there are multiple taskgroups and say a task A preempts currently running task B of taskgroup_1. On schedule, pick_next_task can pick an unrelated task on taskgroup_2. Here it would be better to give some preference to task B on pick_next_task. A simple (may be extreme case) benchmark I tried was tbench with 2 tbench client processes with 2 threads each running on a single CPU. Avg throughput across 5 50 sec runs was: BEFORE: 105.84 MB/sec AFTER: 112.42 MB/sec Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302802253-25760-1-git-send-email-venki@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-19sched: Make set_*_buddy() work on non-task entitiesVenkatesh Pallipadi
Make set_*_buddy() work on non-task sched_entity, to facilitate the use of next_buddy to cache a group entity in cases where one of the tasks within that entity sleeps or gets preempted. set_skip_buddy() was incorrectly comparing the policy of task that is yielding to be not equal to SCHED_IDLE. Yielding should happen even when task yielding is SCHED_IDLE. This change removes the policy check on the yielding task. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302744070-30079-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-18Merge branch 'sched/locking' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: the rq locking changes are stable, propagate them into the .40 queue. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-14sched: Deal with non-atomic min_vruntime reads on 32bitsPeter Zijlstra
In order to avoid reading partial updated min_vruntime values on 32bit implement a seqcount like solution. 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/20110405152729.111378493@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-14sched: Remove rq argument to sched_class::task_waking()Peter Zijlstra
In preparation of calling this without rq->lock held, remove 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/20110405152729.071474242@chello.nl 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>
2011-04-11sched: Avoid using sd->levelPeter Zijlstra
Don't use sd->level for identifying properties of the domain. 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/20110407122942.350174079@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11sched: Dynamically allocate sched_domain/sched_group data-structuresPeter Zijlstra
Instead of relying on static allocations for the sched_domain and sched_group trees, dynamically allocate and RCU free them. Allocating this dynamically also allows for some build_sched_groups() simplification since we can now (like with other simplifications) rely on the sched_domain tree instead of hard-coded knowledge. One tricky to note is that detach_destroy_domains() needs to hold rcu_read_lock() over the entire tear-down, per-cpu is not sufficient since that can lead to partial sched_group existance (could possibly be solved by doing the tear-down backwards but this is much more robust). A concequence of the above is that we can no longer print the sched_domain debug stuff from cpu_attach_domain() since that might now run with preemption disabled (due to classic RCU etc.) and sched_domain_debug() does some GFP_KERNEL allocations. Another thing to note is that we now fully rely on normal RCU and not RCU-sched, this is because with the new and exiting RCU flavours we grew over the years BH doesn't necessarily hold off RCU-sched grace periods (-rt is known to break this). This would in fact already cause us grief since we do sched_domain/sched_group iterations from softirq context. This patch is somewhat larger than I would like it to be, but I didn't find any means of shrinking/splitting this. 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/20110407122942.245307941@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11sched: Eliminate dead code from wakeup_gran()Shaohua Li
calc_delta_fair() checks NICE_0_LOAD already, delete duplicate check. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302238389.3981.92.camel@sli10-conroe Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11sched: Fix erroneous all_pinned logicKen Chen
The scheduler load balancer has specific code to deal with cases of unbalanced system due to lots of unmovable tasks (for example because of hard CPU affinity). In those situation, it excludes the busiest CPU that has pinned tasks for load balance consideration such that it can perform second 2nd load balance pass on the rest of the system. This all works as designed if there is only one cgroup in the system. However, when we have multiple cgroups, this logic has false positives and triggers multiple load balance passes despite there are actually no pinned tasks at all. The reason it has false positives is that the all pinned logic is deep in the lowest function of can_migrate_task() and is too low level: load_balance_fair() iterates each task group and calls balance_tasks() to migrate target load. Along the way, balance_tasks() will also set a all_pinned variable. Given that task-groups are iterated, this all_pinned variable is essentially the status of last group in the scanning process. Task group can have number of reasons that no load being migrated, none due to cpu affinity. However, this status bit is being propagated back up to the higher level load_balance(), which incorrectly think that no tasks were moved. It kick off the all pinned logic and start multiple passes attempt to move load onto puller CPU. To fix this, move the all_pinned aggregation up at the iterator level. This ensures that the status is aggregated over all task-groups, not just last one in the list. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTi=ernzNawaR5tJZEsV_QVnfxqXmsQ@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11sched: Fix sched-domain avg_load calculationKen Chen
In function find_busiest_group(), the sched-domain avg_load isn't calculated at all if there is a group imbalance within the domain. This will cause erroneous imbalance calculation. The reason is that calculate_imbalance() sees sds->avg_load = 0 and it will dump entire sds->max_load into imbalance variable, which is used later on to migrate entire load from busiest CPU to the puller CPU. This has two really bad effect: 1. stampede of task migration, and they won't be able to break out of the bad state because of positive feedback loop: large load delta -> heavier load migration -> larger imbalance and the cycle goes on. 2. severe imbalance in CPU queue depth. This causes really long scheduling latency blip which affects badly on application that has tight latency requirement. The fix is to have kernel calculate domain avg_load in both cases. This will ensure that imbalance calculation is always sensible and the target is usually half way between busiest and puller CPU. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110408002322.3A0D812217F@elm.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-07Merge branches 'x86-fixes-for-linus', 'sched-fixes-for-linus', ↵Linus Torvalds
'timers-fixes-for-linus', 'irq-fixes-for-linus' and 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86-32, fpu: Fix FPU exception handling on non-SSE systems x86, hibernate: Initialize mmu_cr4_features during boot x86-32, NUMA: Fix ACPI NUMA init broken by recent x86-64 change x86: visws: Fixup irq overhaul fallout * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Clean up rebalance_domains() load-balance interval calculation * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86/mrst/vrtc: Fix boot crash in mrst_rtc_init() rtc, x86/mrst/vrtc: Fix boot crash in rtc_read_alarm() * 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: Fix cpumask leak in __setup_irq() * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf probe: Fix listing incorrect line number with inline function perf probe: Fix to find recursively inlined function perf probe: Fix multiple --vars options behavior perf probe: Fix to remove redundant close perf probe: Fix to ensure function declared file
2011-04-07Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6: Fix common misspellings
2011-04-05sched: Clean up rebalance_domains() load-balance interval calculationPeter Zijlstra
Instead of the possible multiple-evaluation of num_online_cpus() in rebalance_domains() that Linus reported, avoid it altogether in the normal case since it's implemented with a Hamming weight function over a cpu bitmask which can be darn expensive for those with big iron. This also makes it cleaner, smaller and documents the code. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1301991265.2225.12.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31sched: Fix rebalance interval calculationSisir Koppaka
The interval for checking scheduling domains if they are due to be balanced currently depends on boot state NR_CPUS, which may not accurately reflect the number of online CPUs at the time of check. Thus replace NR_CPUS with num_online_cpus(). (ed: Should only affect those who set NR_CPUS really high, such as 4096 or so :-) Signed-off-by: Sisir Koppaka <sisir.koppaka@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <AANLkTikqHWid2Q93F5U5Qw5snJH8C5PXoa7J6=6hYO94@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-04sched: Resched proper CPU on yield_to()Venkatesh Pallipadi
yield_to_task_fair() has code to resched the CPU of yielding task when the intention is to resched the CPU of the task that is being yielded to. Change here fixes the problem and also makes the resched conditional on rq != p_rq. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1299025701-22168-1-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-04sched: Allow SCHED_BATCH to preempt SCHED_IDLE tasksDarren Hart
Perform the test for SCHED_IDLE before testing for SCHED_BATCH (and ensure idle tasks don't preempt idle tasks) so the non-interactive, but still important, SCHED_BATCH tasks will run in favor of the very low priority SCHED_IDLE tasks. Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> LKML-Reference: <1298408674-3130-2-git-send-email-dvhart@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-23sched: Fix the group_imb logicPeter Zijlstra
On a 2*6*2 machine something like: taskset -c 3-11 bash -c 'for ((i=0;i<9;i++)) do while :; do :; done & done' _should_ result in 9 busy CPUs, each running 1 task. However it didn't quite work reliably, most of the time one cpu of the second socket (6-11) would be idle and one cpu of the first socket (0-5) would have two tasks on it. The group_imb logic is supposed to deal with this and detect when a particular group is imbalanced (like in our case, 0-2 are idle but 3-5 will have 4 tasks on it). The detection phase needed a bit of a tweak as it was too weak and required more than 2 avg weight tasks difference between idle and busy cpus in the group which won't trigger for our test-case. So cure that to be one or more avg task weight difference between cpus. Once the detection phase worked, it was then defeated by the f_b_g() tests trying to avoid ping-pongs. In particular, this_load >= max_load triggered because the pulling cpu (the (first) idle cpu in on the second socket, say 6) would find this_load to be 5 and max_load to be 4 (there'd be 5 tasks running on our socket and only 4 on the other socket). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-23sched: Clean up some f_b_g() commentsPeter Zijlstra
The existing comment tends to grow state (as it already has), split it up and place it near the actual tests. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-23sched: Clean up remnants of sd_idlePeter Zijlstra
With the wholesale removal of the sd_idle SMT logic we can clean up some more. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-16sched: Wholesale removal of sd_idle logicVenkatesh Pallipadi
sd_idle logic was introduced way back in 2005 (commit 5969fe06), as an HT optimization. As per the discussion in the thread here: lkml - sched: Resolve sd_idle and first_idle_cpu Catch-22 - v1 https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/532501/ The capacity based logic in the load balancer right now handles this in a much cleaner way, handling more than 2 SMT siblings etc, and sd_idle does not seem to bring any additional benefits. sd_idle logic also has some bugs that has performance impact. Here is the patch that removes the sd_idle logic altogether. Also, there was a dependency of sched_mc_power_savings == 2, with sd_idle logic. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Acked-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1297723130-693-1-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionalityMike Galbraith
Currently only implemented for fair class tasks. Add a yield_to_task method() to the fair scheduling class. allowing the caller of yield_to() to accelerate another thread in it's thread group, task group. Implemented via a scheduler hint, using cfs_rq->next to encourage the target being selected. We can rely on pick_next_entity to keep things fair, so noone can accelerate a thread that has already used its fair share of CPU time. This also means callers should only call yield_to when they really mean it. Calling it too often can result in the scheduler just ignoring the hint. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110201095051.4ddb7738@annuminas.surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()Rik van Riel
Use the buddy mechanism to implement yield_task_fair. This allows us to skip onto the next highest priority se at every level in the CFS tree, unless doing so would introduce gross unfairness in CPU time distribution. We order the buddy selection in pick_next_entity to check yield first, then last, then next. We need next to be able to override yield, because it is possible for the "next" and "yield" task to be different processen in the same sub-tree of the CFS tree. When they are, we need to go into that sub-tree regardless of the "yield" hint, and pick the correct entity once we get to the right level. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110201095103.3a79e92a@annuminas.surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03sched: Limit the scope of clear_buddiesRik van Riel
The clear_buddies function does not seem to play well with the concept of hierarchical runqueues. In the following tree, task groups are represented by 'G', tasks by 'T', next by 'n' and last by 'l'. (nl) / \ G(nl) G / \ \ T(l) T(n) T This situation can arise when a task is woken up T(n), and the previously running task T(l) is marked last. When clear_buddies is called from either T(l) or T(n), the next and last buddies of the group G(nl) will be cleared. This is not the desired result, since we would like to be able to find the other type of buddy in many cases. This especially a worry when implementing yield_task_fair through the buddy system. The fix is simple: only clear the buddy type that the task itself is indicated to be. As an added bonus, we stop walking up the tree when the buddy has already been cleared or pointed elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.coM> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110201094837.6b0962a9@annuminas.surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03sched: Check the right ->nr_running in yield_task_fair()Rik van Riel
With CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED, each task_group has its own cfs_rq. Yielding to a task from another cfs_rq may be worthwhile, since a process calling yield typically cannot use the CPU right now. Therefor, we want to check the per-cpu nr_running, not the cgroup local one. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110201094715.798c4f86@annuminas.surriel.com> 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>
2011-01-26sched: Avoid expensive initial update_cfs_load()Paul Turner
Since cfs->{load_stamp,load_last} are zero-initalized the initial load update will consider the delta to be 'since the beginning of time'. This results in a lot of pointless divisions to bring this large period to be within the sysctl_sched_shares_window. Fix this by initializing load_stamp to be 1 at cfs_rq initialization, this allows for an initial load_stamp > load_last which then lets standard idle truncation proceed. We avoid spinning (and slightly improve consistency) by fixing delta to be [period - 1] in this path resulting in a slightly more predictable shares ramp. (Previously the amount of idle time preserved by the overflow would range between [period/2,period-1].) Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110122044852.102126037@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26sched: Simplify update_cfs_shares parametersPaul Turner
Re-visiting this: Since update_cfs_shares will now only ever re-weight an entity that is a relative parent of the current entity in enqueue_entity; we can safely issue the account_entity_enqueue relative to that cfs_rq and avoid the requirement for special handling of the enqueue case in update_cfs_shares. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110122044851.915214637@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26sched: Use rq->clock_task instead of rq->clock for correctly maintaining ↵Paul Turner
load averages The delta in clock_task is a more fair attribution of how much time a tg has been contributing load to the current cpu. While not really important it also means we're more in sync (by magnitude) with respect to periodic updates (since __update_curr deltas are clock_task based). Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110122044852.007092349@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26sched: Fix/remove redundant cfs_rq checksPaul Turner
Since updates are against an entity's queuing cfs_rq it's not possible to enter update_cfs_{shares,load} with a NULL cfs_rq. (Indeed, update_cfs_load would crash prior to the check if we did anyway since we load is examined during the initializers). Also, in the update_cfs_load case there's no point in maintaining averages for rq->cfs_rq since we don't perform shares distribution at that level -- NULL check is replaced accordingly. Thanks to Dan Carpenter for pointing out the deference before NULL check. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110122044851.825284940@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26sched: Fix sign under-flows in wake_affinePaul Turner
While care is taken around the zero-point in effective_load to not exceed the instantaneous rq->weight, it's still possible (e.g. using wake_idx != 0) for (load + effective_load) to underflow. In this case the comparing the unsigned values can result in incorrect balanced decisions. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110122044851.734245014@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-24sched: Fix poor interactivity on UP systems due to group scheduler nice tune bugYong Zhang
Michael Witten and Christian Kujau reported that the autogroup scheduling feature hurts interactivity on their UP systems. It turns out that this is an older bug in the group scheduling code, and the wider appeal provided by the autogroup feature exposed it more prominently. When on UP with FAIR_GROUP_SCHED enabled, tune shares only affect tg->shares, but is not reflected in tg->se->load. The reason is that update_cfs_shares() does nothing on UP. So introduce update_cfs_shares() for UP && FAIR_GROUP_SCHED. This issue was found when enable autogroup scheduling was enabled, but it is an older bug that also exists on cgroup.cpu on UP. Reported-and-Tested-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> Reported-and-Tested-by: Christian Kujau <christian@nerdbynature.de> Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20110124073352.GA24186@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18sched: Fix signed unsigned comparison in check_preempt_tick()Mike Galbraith
Signed unsigned comparison may lead to superfluous resched if leftmost is right of the current task, wasting a few cycles, and inadvertently _lengthening_ the current task's slice. Reported-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1294202477.9384.5.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18sched: Update effective_load() to use global share weightsPaul Turner
Previously effective_load would approximate the global load weight present on a group taking advantage of: entity_weight = tg->shares ( lw / global_lw ), where entity_weight was provided by tg_shares_up. This worked (approximately) for an 'empty' (at tg level) cpu since we would place boost load representative of what a newly woken task would receive. However, now that load is instantaneously updated this assumption is no longer true and the load calculation is rather incorrect in this case. Fix this (and improve the general case) by re-writing effective_load to take advantage of the new shares distribution code. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110115015817.069769529@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-19sched: Fix interactivity bug by charging unaccounted run-time on entity ↵Paul Turner
re-weight Mike Galbraith reported poor interactivity[*] when the new shares distribution code was combined with autogroups. The root cause turns out to be a mis-ordering of accounting accrued execution time and shares updates. Since update_curr() is issued hierarchically, updating the parent entity weights to reflect child enqueue/dequeue results in the parent's unaccounted execution time then being accrued (vs vruntime) at the new weight as opposed to the weight present at accumulation. While this doesn't have much effect on processes with timeslices that cross a tick, it is particularly problematic for an interactive process (e.g. Xorg) which incurs many (tiny) timeslices. In this scenario almost all updates are at dequeue which can result in significant fairness perturbation (especially if it is the only thread, resulting in potential {tg->shares, MIN_SHARES} transitions). Correct this by ensuring unaccounted time is accumulated prior to manipulating an entity's weight. [*] http://xkcd.com/619/ is perversely Nostradamian here. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20101216031038.159704378@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-19sched: Move periodic share updates to entity_tick()Paul Turner
Long running entities that do not block (dequeue) require periodic updates to maintain accurate share values. (Note: group entities with several threads are quite likely to be non-blocking in many circumstances). By virtue of being long-running however, we will see entity ticks (otherwise the required update occurs in dequeue/put and we are done). Thus we can move the detection (and associated work) for these updates into the periodic path. This restores the 'atomicity' of update_curr() with respect to accounting. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101216031038.067028969@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-08Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: we want to queue up dependent cleanup Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>