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Richard Kennedy 26a148eb9c sched: Reorder root_domain to remove 64 bit alignment padding
Reorder root_domain to remove 8 bytes of alignment padding on 64 bit
builds, this shrinks the size from 1736 to 1728 bytes, therefore using
one fewer cachelines.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310726492.1977.5.camel@castor.rsk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21 18:01:52 +02:00
Bianca Lutz 99bc52429f sched: Do not attempt to destroy uninitialized rt_bandwidth
If a task group is to be created and alloc_fair_sched_group() fails,
then the rt_bandwidth of the corresponding task group is not yet
initialized. The caller, sched_create_group(), starts a clean up
procedure which calls free_rt_sched_group() which unconditionally
destroys the not yet initialized rt_bandwidth.

This crashes or hangs the system in lock_hrtimer_base(): UP systems
dereference a NULL pointer, while SMP systems loop endlessly on a
condition that cannot become true.

This patch simply avoids the destruction of rt_bandwidth when the
initialization code path was not reached.

(This was discovered by accident with a custom kernel modification.)

Signed-off-by: Bianca Lutz <sowilo@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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/1310580816-10861-7-git-send-email-schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21 18:01:51 +02:00
Jan Schoenherr 5f817d676b sched: Fix (harmless) typo 'CONFG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED'
This patch fixes a typo located in a comment.

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/1310580816-10861-2-git-send-email-schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21 18:01:48 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 9763b67fb9 sched, cgroup: Optimize load_balance_fair()
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>
2011-07-21 18:01:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 994bf1c922 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: pick up the latest scheduler fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21 18:00:01 +02:00
Linus Torvalds cf6ace16a3 Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  signal: align __lock_task_sighand() irq disabling and RCU
  softirq,rcu: Inform RCU of irq_exit() activity
  sched: Add irq_{enter,exit}() to scheduler_ipi()
  rcu: protect __rcu_read_unlock() against scheduler-using irq handlers
  rcu: Streamline code produced by __rcu_read_unlock()
  rcu: Fix RCU_BOOST race handling current->rcu_read_unlock_special
  rcu: decrease rcu_report_exp_rnp coupling with scheduler
2011-07-20 15:56:25 -07:00
Ingo Molnar d1e9ae47a0 Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/urgent 2011-07-20 20:59:26 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c5d753a55a sched: Add irq_{enter,exit}() to scheduler_ipi()
Ensure scheduler_ipi() calls irq_{enter,exit} when it does some actual
work. Traditionally we never did any actual work from the resched IPI
and all magic happened in the return from interrupt path.

Now that we do do some work, we need to ensure irq_{enter,exit} are
called so that we don't confuse things.

This affects things like timekeeping, NO_HZ and RCU, basically
everything with a hook in irq_enter/exit.

Explicit examples of things going wrong are:

  sched_clock_cpu() -- has a callback when leaving NO_HZ state to take
                    a new reading from GTOD and TSC. Without this
                    callback, time is stuck in the past.

  RCU -- needs in_irq() to work in order to avoid some nasty deadlocks

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-07-20 10:50:11 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra d110235d2c sched: Avoid creating superfluous NUMA domains on non-NUMA systems
When creating sched_domains, stop when we've covered the entire
target span instead of continuing to create domains, only to
later find they're redundant and throw them away again.

This avoids single node systems from touching funny NUMA
sched_domain creation code and reduces the risks of the new
SD_OVERLAP code.

Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311180177.29152.57.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-20 18:54:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra e3589f6c81 sched: Allow for overlapping sched_domain spans
Allow for sched_domain spans that overlap by giving such domains their
own sched_group list instead of sharing the sched_groups amongst
each-other.

This is needed for machines with more than 16 nodes, because
sched_domain_node_span() will generate a node mask from the
16 nearest nodes without regard if these masks have any overlap.

Currently sched_domains have a sched_group that maps to their child
sched_domain span, and since there is no overlap we share the
sched_group between the sched_domains of the various CPUs. If however
there is overlap, we would need to link the sched_group list in
different ways for each cpu, and hence sharing isn't possible.

In order to solve this, allocate private sched_groups for each CPU's
sched_domain but have the sched_groups share a sched_group_power
structure such that we can uniquely track the power.

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-08bxqw9wis3qti9u5inifh3y@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-20 18:32:41 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 9c3f75cbd1 sched: Break out cpu_power from the sched_group structure
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>
2011-07-20 18:32:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c64be78ffb sched: Fix 32bit race
Commit 3fe1698b7f ("sched: Deal with non-atomic min_vruntime reads
on 32bit") forgot to initialize min_vruntime_copy which could lead to
an infinite while loop in task_waking_fair() under some circumstances
(early boot, lucky timing).

[ This bug was also reported by others that blamed it on the RCU
  initialization problems ]

Reported-and-tested-by: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-15 09:54:02 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 1ecc818c51 Merge branch 'sched/core-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into sched/core 2011-07-01 13:20:51 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 307bf9803f sched: Simplify mutex_spin_on_owner()
It does not make sense to rcu_read_lock/unlock() in every loop
iteration while spinning on the mutex.

Move the rcu protection outside the loop. Also simplify the
return path to always check for lock->owner == NULL which
meets the requirements of both owner changed and need_resched()
caused loop exits.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1106101458350.11814@ionos
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 10:39:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 36b2e922b5 Merge commit 'v3.0-rc5' into sched/core
Merge reason: Move to a (much) newer base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 10:34:24 +02:00
Mike Galbraith cd62287e36 sched, cgroups: Fix MIN_SHARES on 64-bit boxen
Commit c8b28116 ("sched: Increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE resolution")
intended to have no user-visible effect, but allows setting
cpu.shares to < MIN_SHARES, which the user then sees.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307192600.8618.3.camel@marge.simson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 10:25:03 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker d902db1eb6 sched: Generalize sleep inside spinlock detection
The sleeping inside spinlock detection is actually used
for more general sleeping inside atomic sections
debugging: preemption disabled, rcu read side critical
sections, interrupts, interrupt disabled, etc...

Change the name of the config and its help section to
reflect its more general role.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-23 00:44:38 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker bdd4e85dc3 sched: Isolate preempt counting in its own config option
Create a new CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT that handles the inc/dec
of preempt count offset independently. So that the offset
can be updated by preempt_disable() and preempt_enable()
even without the need for CONFIG_PREEMPT beeing set.

This prepares to make CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP working
with !CONFIG_PREEMPT where it currently doesn't detect
code that sleeps inside explicit preemption disabled
sections.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2011-06-10 15:15:40 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 2da8c8bc44 sched: Remove pointless in_atomic() definition check
It's really supposed to be defined here. If it's not then
we actually want the build to crash so that we know it,
and not keep it silent.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2011-06-07 22:53:39 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 6c6c54e180 sched: Fix/clarify set_task_cpu() locking rules
Sergey reported a CONFIG_PROVE_RCU warning in push_rt_task where
set_task_cpu() was called with both relevant rq->locks held, which
should be sufficient for running tasks since holding its rq->lock
will serialize against sched_move_task().

Update the comments and fix the task_group() lockdep test.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307115427.2353.3456.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-07 12:26:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar e197f094b7 Merge branch 'unlikely/sched' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into sched/urgent 2011-06-03 10:27:47 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f339b9dc1f sched: Fix schedstat.nr_wakeups_migrate
While looking over the code I found that with the ttwu rework the
nr_wakeups_migrate test broke since we now switch cpus prior to
calling ttwu_stat(), hence the test is always true.

Cure this by passing the migration state in wake_flags. Also move the
whole test under CONFIG_SMP, its hard to migrate tasks on UP :-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pwwxl7gdqs5676f1d4cx6pj7@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-31 14:19:57 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f01114cb59 sched: Fix cross-cpu clock sync on remote wakeups
Markus reported that commit 317f394160 ("sched: Move the second half
of ttwu() to the remote cpu") caused some accounting funnies on his AMD
Phenom II X4, such as weird 'top' results.

It turns out that this is due to non-synced TSC and the queued remote
wakeups stopped coupeling the two relevant cpu clocks, which leads to
wakeups seeing time jumps, which in turn lead to skewed runtime stats.

Add an explicit call to sched_clock_cpu() to couple the per-cpu clocks
to restore the normal flow of time.

Reported-and-tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306835745.2353.3.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-31 14:19:56 +02:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 1e1b6c511d cpuset: Fix cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(), don't update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed
The rule is, we have to update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed if we change
tsk->cpus_allowed. Otherwise RT scheduler may confuse.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DD4B3FA.5060901@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:02:57 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra d6aa8f85f1 sched: Fix ttwu() for __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
Marc reported that e4a52bcb9 (sched: Remove rq->lock from the first
half of ttwu()) broke his ARM-SMP machine. Now ARM is one of the few
__ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW users, so that exception in the ttwu()
code was suspect.

Yong found that the interrupt could hit after context_switch() changes
current but before it clears p->on_cpu, if that interrupt were to
attempt a wake-up of p we would indeed find ourselves spinning in IRQ
context.

Fix this by reverting to the old behaviour for this situation and
perform a full remote wake-up.

Cc: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@arm.com>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:02:55 +02:00
Ben Blum f780bdb7c1 cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacks
Add cgroup subsystem callbacks for per-thread attachment in atomic contexts

Add can_attach_task(), pre_attach(), and attach_task() as new callbacks
for cgroups's subsystem interface.  Unlike can_attach and attach, these
are for per-thread operations, to be called potentially many times when
attaching an entire threadgroup.

Also, the old "bool threadgroup" interface is removed, as replaced by
this.  All subsystems are modified for the new interface - of note is
cpuset, which requires from/to nodemasks for attach to be globally scoped
(though per-cpuset would work too) to persist from its pre_attach to
attach_task and attach.

This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-writable.patch.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 15a3d11b0f Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of 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:
  sched: Increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE resolution
  sched: Introduce SCHED_POWER_SCALE to scale cpu_power calculations
  sched: Cleanup set_load_weight()
2011-05-23 12:53:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e98bae7592 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6: (28 commits)
  sparc32: fix build, fix missing cpu_relax declaration
  SCHED_TTWU_QUEUE is not longer needed since sparc32 now implements IPI
  sparc32,leon: Remove unnecessary page_address calls in LEON DMA API.
  sparc: convert old cpumask API into new one
  sparc32, sun4d: Implemented SMP IPIs support for SUN4D machines
  sparc32, sun4m: Implemented SMP IPIs support for SUN4M machines
  sparc32,leon: Implemented SMP IPIs for LEON CPU
  sparc32: implement SMP IPIs using the generic functions
  sparc32,leon: SMP power down implementation
  sparc32,leon: added some SMP comments
  sparc: add {read,write}*_be routines
  sparc32,leon: don't rely on bootloader to mask IRQs
  sparc32,leon: operate on boot-cpu IRQ controller registers
  sparc32: always define boot_cpu_id
  sparc32: removed unused code, implemented by generic code
  sparc32: avoid build warning at mm/percpu.c:1647
  sparc32: always register a PROM based early console
  sparc32: probe for cpu info only during startup
  sparc: consolidate show_cpuinfo in cpu.c
  sparc32,leon: implement genirq CPU affinity
  ...
2011-05-22 22:06:24 -07:00
Daniel Hellstrom 17d9f311ec SCHED_TTWU_QUEUE is not longer needed since sparc32 now implements IPI
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler.com>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-20 13:10:55 -07:00
David S. Miller 90d3ac15e5 Merge commit '317f394160e9beb97d19a84c39b7e5eb3d7815a8'
Conflicts:
	arch/sparc/kernel/smp_32.c

With merge conflict help from Daniel Hellstrom.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-20 13:10:22 -07:00
Nikhil Rao c8b281161d sched: Increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE resolution
Introduce SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION, which scales is added to
SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT and increases the resolution of
SCHED_LOAD_SCALE. This patch sets the value of
SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION to 10, scaling up the weights for all
sched entities by a factor of 1024. With this extra resolution,
we can handle deeper cgroup hiearchies and the scheduler can do
better shares distribution and load load balancing on larger
systems (especially for low weight task groups).

This does not change the existing user interface, the scaled
weights are only used internally. We do not modify
prio_to_weight values or inverses, but use the original weights
when calculating the inverse which is used to scale execution
time delta in calc_delta_mine(). This ensures we do not lose
accuracy when accounting time to the sched entities. Thanks to
Nikunj Dadhania for fixing an bug in c_d_m() that broken fairness.

Below is some analysis of the performance costs/improvements of
this patch.

1. Micro-arch performance costs:

Experiment was to run Ingo's pipe_test_100k 200 times with the
task pinned to one cpu. I measured instruction, cycles and
stalled-cycles for the runs. See:

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1129232/focus=1129389

for more info.

-tip (baseline):

 Performance counter stats for '/root/load-scale/pipe-test-100k' (200 runs):

       964,991,769 instructions             #    0.82  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.33  stalled cycles per insn
                                            #    ( +-  0.05% )
     1,171,186,635 cycles                   #    0.000 GHz                      ( +-  0.08% )
       306,373,664 stalled-cycles-backend   #   26.16% backend  cycles idle     ( +-  0.28% )
       314,933,621 stalled-cycles-frontend  #   26.89% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0.34% )

        1.122405684  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.05% )

-tip+patches:

 Performance counter stats for './load-scale/pipe-test-100k' (200 runs):

       963,624,821 instructions             #    0.82  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.33  stalled cycles per insn
                                            #    ( +-  0.04% )
     1,175,215,649 cycles                   #    0.000 GHz                      ( +-  0.08% )
       315,321,126 stalled-cycles-backend   #   26.83% backend  cycles idle     ( +-  0.28% )
       316,835,873 stalled-cycles-frontend  #   26.96% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0.29% )

        1.122238659  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.06% )

With this patch, instructions decrease by ~0.10% and cycles
increase by 0.27%. This doesn't look statistically significant.
The number of stalled cycles in the backend increased from
26.16% to 26.83%. This can be attributed to the shifts we do in
c_d_m() and other places. The fraction of stalled cycles in the
frontend remains about the same, at 26.96% compared to 26.89% in -tip.

2. Balancing low-weight task groups

Test setup: run 50 tasks with random sleep/busy times (biased
around 100ms) in a low weight container (with cpu.shares = 2).
Measure %idle as reported by mpstat over a 10s window.

-tip (baseline):

06:47:48 PM  CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle    intr/s
06:47:49 PM  all   94.32    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    5.62  15888.00
06:47:50 PM  all   94.57    0.00    0.62    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    4.81  16180.00
06:47:51 PM  all   94.69    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    5.25  15966.00
06:47:52 PM  all   95.81    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    4.19  16053.00
06:47:53 PM  all   94.88    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    5.06  15984.00
06:47:54 PM  all   93.31    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    6.69  15806.00
06:47:55 PM  all   94.19    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    5.75  15896.00
06:47:56 PM  all   92.87    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    7.13  15716.00
06:47:57 PM  all   94.88    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    5.12  15982.00
06:47:58 PM  all   95.44    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    4.56  16075.00
Average:     all   94.49    0.01    0.08    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    5.42  15954.60

-tip+patches:

06:47:03 PM  CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle    intr/s
06:47:04 PM  all  100.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  16630.00
06:47:05 PM  all   99.69    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.31  16580.20
06:47:06 PM  all   99.69    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.25  16596.00
06:47:07 PM  all   99.20    0.00    0.74    0.00    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00  17838.61
06:47:08 PM  all  100.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  16540.00
06:47:09 PM  all  100.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  16575.00
06:47:10 PM  all  100.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  16614.00
06:47:11 PM  all   99.94    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.06  16588.00
06:47:12 PM  all   99.94    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  16593.00
06:47:13 PM  all   99.94    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  16551.00
Average:     all   99.84    0.00    0.09    0.00    0.00    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.06  16711.58

We see an improvement in idle% on the system (drops from 5.42% on -tip to 0.06%
with the patches).

We see an improvement in idle% on the system (drops from 5.42%
on -tip to 0.06% with the patches).

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>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305754668-18792-1-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-20 14:16:50 +02:00
Nikhil Rao 1399fa7807 sched: Introduce SCHED_POWER_SCALE to scale cpu_power calculations
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>
2011-05-20 14:16:50 +02:00
Nikhil Rao f05998d4b8 sched: Cleanup set_load_weight()
Avoid using long repetitious names; make this simpler and nicer
to read. No functional change introduced in this patch.

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/1305738580-9924-2-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-20 14:16:49 +02:00
Stephan Baerwolf db670dac49 sched: Fix and optimise calculation of the weight-inverse
If the inverse loadweight should be zero, function "calc_delta_mine"
calculates the inverse of "lw->weight" (in 32bit integer ops).

This calculation is actually a little bit impure (because it is
inverting something around "lw-weight"+1), especially when
"lw->weight" becomes smaller.

The correct inverse would be 1/lw->weight multiplied by
"WMULT_CONST" for fixcomma-scaling it into integers.
(So WMULT_CONST/lw->weight ...)

The old, impure algorithm took two divisions for inverting lw->weight,
the new, more exact one only takes one and an additional unlikely-if.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Baerwolf <stephan.baerwolf@tu-ilmenau.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0pz0wnyalr4tk4ln11xwumdx@git.kernel.org
[ This could explain some aritmetical issues for small shares but nothing
  concrete has been reported yet so we are not confident enough to queue
  this up in sched/urgent and for -stable backport. But if anyone finds
  this commit and sees it to fix some badness then we can certainly
  change our mind! ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-16 11:01:18 +02:00
Yong Zhang db44fc017d sched: Avoid going ahead if ->cpus_allowed is not changed
If cpumask_equal(&p->cpus_allowed, new_mask) is true, seems
there is no reason to prevent set_cpus_allowed_ptr() return
directly.

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110509140705.GA2219@zhy
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-16 11:01:18 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 61eadef6a9 sched, rt: Update rq clock when unthrottling of an otherwise idle CPU
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>
2011-05-16 11:01:17 +02:00
Samir Bellabes 3e51e3edfd sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task()
sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task() are defined with a parameter
'unsigned long clone_flags', which is unused.

This patch removes the parameters.

Signed-off-by: Samir Bellabes <sam@synack.fr>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305130685-1047-1-git-send-email-sam@synack.fr
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-12 09:36:37 +02:00
Hillf Danton 7142d17e8f sched: Shorten the construction of the span cpu mask of sched domain
For a given node, when constructing the cpumask for its
sched_domain to span, if there is no best node available after
searching, further efforts could be saved, based on small change
in the return value of find_next_best_node().

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTi%3DqPWxRAa6%2BdT3ohEP6Z%3D0v%2Be4EXA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-06 09:13:05 +02:00
Rakib Mullick 4934a4d3d3 sched: Wrap the 'cfs_rq->nr_spread_over' field with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
cfs_rq->nr_spread_over is only used when CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG is set.
So wrap it with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG.

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304528026.15681.3.camel@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-06 09:04:19 +02:00
Hillf Danton 1437f5bca3 sched: Remove noop in alloc_rt_sched_group()
The rq varible, though computed for each possible cpu, has nothing to
do in the function, so it can be removed.

This also eliminates a build warning.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTin-FfQfqW5ym1iuEmrk8s777Y1LAg@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26 13:34:08 +02:00
Jonathan Corbet 625f2a378e sched: Get rid of lock_depth
Neil Brown pointed out that lock_depth somehow escaped the BKL
removal work.  Let's get rid of it now.

Note that the perf scripting utilities still have a bunch of
code for dealing with common_lock_depth in tracepoints; I have
left that in place in case anybody wants to use that code with
older kernels.

Suggested-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110422111910.456c0e84@bike.lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-24 13:18:38 +02:00
Rakib Mullick d3bf52e998 sched: Remove obsolete comment from scheduler_tick()
scheduler_tick() is no longer called by fork code - this got discarded
a long time ago by commit bc947631d1 ("sched: improve efficiency
of sched_fork()").

So, remove the comment which still claims otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTimO4iGP0QpaHO1HHF1QOnVcQpc0cw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-21 11:41:36 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 42ac9e87fd Merge commit 'v2.6.39-rc4' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-21 11:39:28 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 057f3fadb3 sched: Fix sched_domain iterations vs. RCU
Vladis Kletnieks reported a new RCU debug warning in the scheduler.

Since commit dce840a087 ("sched: Dynamically allocate sched_domain/
sched_group data-structures") the sched_domain trees are protected by
RCU instead of RCU-sched.

This means that we need to include rcu_read_lock() protection when we
iterate them since disabling preemption doesn't suffice anymore.

Reported-by: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302882741.2388.241.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-19 10:56:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6ddafdaab3 Merge branch 'sched/locking' into sched/core
Merge reason: the rq locking changes are stable,
              propagate them into the .40 queue.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-18 14:53:33 +02:00
Jens Axboe a237c1c5bc block: let io_schedule() flush the plug inline
Linus correctly observes that the most important dispatch cases
are now done from kblockd, this isn't ideal for latency reasons.
The original reason for switching dispatches out-of-line was to
avoid too deep a stack, so by _only_ letting the "accidental"
flush directly in schedule() be guarded by offload to kblockd,
we should be able to get the best of both worlds.

So add a blk_schedule_flush_plug() that offloads to kblockd,
and only use that from the schedule() path.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-16 13:27:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 317f394160 sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu
Now that we've removed the rq->lock requirement from the first part of
ttwu() and can compute placement without holding any rq->lock, ensure
we execute the second half of ttwu() on the actual cpu we want the
task to run on.

This avoids having to take rq->lock and doing the task enqueue
remotely, saving lots on cacheline transfers.

As measured using: http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/sembench.c

  $ for i in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor ; do echo performance > $i; done
  $ echo 4096 32000 64 128 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem
  $ ./sembench -t 2048 -w 1900 -o 0

  unpatched: run time 30 seconds 647278 worker burns per second
  patched:   run time 30 seconds 816715 worker burns per second

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/20110405152729.515897185@chello.nl
2011-04-14 08:52:41 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra bd8e7dded8 sched: Remove need_migrate_task()
Oleg noticed that need_migrate_task() doesn't need the ->on_cpu check
now that ttwu() doesn't do remote enqueues for !->on_rq && ->on_cpu,
so remove the helper and replace the single instance with a direct
->on_rq test.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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/20110405152729.556674812@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-14 08:52:41 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c05fbafba1 sched: Restructure ttwu() some more
Factor our helper functions to make the inner workings of try_to_wake_up()
more obvious, this also allows for adding remote queues.

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/20110405152729.475848012@chello.nl
2011-04-14 08:52:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 23f41eeb42 sched: Rename ttwu_post_activation() to ttwu_do_wakeup()
The ttwu_post_activation() code does the core wakeup, it sets TASK_RUNNING
and performs wakeup-preemption, so give is a more descriptive name.

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/20110405152729.434609705@chello.nl
2011-04-14 08:52:40 +02:00