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Thomas Gleixner 05fa785cf8 sched: Convert rq->lock to raw_spinlock
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>
2009-12-14 23:55:33 +01:00
Christian Ehrhardt acb4a848da sched: Update normalized values on user updates via proc
The normalized values are also recalculated in case the scaling factor
changes.

This patch updates the internally used scheduler tuning values that are
normalized to one cpu in case a user sets new values via sysfs.

Together with patch 2 of this series this allows to let user configured
values scale (or not) to cpu add/remove events taking place later.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1259579808-11357-4-git-send-email-ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ v2: fix warning ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:04:02 +01:00
Christian Ehrhardt 1983a922a1 sched: Make tunable scaling style configurable
As scaling now takes place on all kind of cpu add/remove events a user
that configures values via proc should be able to configure if his set
values are still rescaled or kept whatever happens.

As the comments state that log2 was just a second guess that worked the
interface is not just designed for on/off, but to choose a scaling type.
Currently this allows none, log and linear, but more important it allwos
us to keep the interface even if someone has an even better idea how to
scale the values.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1259579808-11357-3-git-send-email-ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:04:01 +01:00
Christian Ehrhardt 0bcdcf28c9 sched: Fix missing sched tunable recalculation on cpu add/remove
Based on Peter Zijlstras patch suggestion this enables recalculation of
the scheduler tunables in response of a change in the number of cpus. It
also adds a max of eight cpus that are considered in that scaling.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1259579808-11357-2-git-send-email-ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:03:58 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra fb58bac5c7 sched: Remove unnecessary RCU exclusion
As Nick pointed out, and realized by myself when doing:
   sched: Fix balance vs hotplug race
the patch:
   sched: for_each_domain() vs RCU

is wrong, sched_domains are freed after synchronize_sched(), which
means disabling preemption is enough.

Reported-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:03:08 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 6cecd084d0 sched: Discard some old bits
WAKEUP_RUNNING was an experiment, not sure why that ever ended up being
merged...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:03:07 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 3a7e73a2e2 sched: Clean up check_preempt_wakeup()
Streamline the wakeup preemption code a bit, unifying the preempt path
so that they all do the same.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:03:07 +01:00
Jupyung Lee a65ac745e4 sched: Move update_curr() in check_preempt_wakeup() to avoid redundant call
If a RT task is woken up while a non-RT task is running,
check_preempt_wakeup() is called to check whether the new task can
preempt the old task. The function returns quickly without going deeper
because it is apparent that a RT task can always preempt a non-RT task.

In this situation, check_preempt_wakeup() always calls update_curr() to
update vruntime value of the currently running task. However, the
function call is unnecessary and redundant at that moment because (1) a
non-RT task can always be preempted by a RT task regardless of its
vruntime value, and (2) update_curr() will be called shortly when the
context switch between two occurs.

By moving update_curr() in check_preempt_wakeup(), we can avoid
redundant call to update_curr(), slightly reducing the time taken to
wake up RT tasks.

Signed-off-by: Jupyung Lee <jupyung@gmail.com>
[ Place update_curr() right before the wake_preempt_entity() call, which
  is the only thing that relies on the updated vruntime ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1258451500-6714-1-git-send-email-jupyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:03:06 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra cd29fe6f26 sched: Sanitize fork() handling
Currently we try to do task placement in wake_up_new_task() after we do
the load-balance pass in sched_fork(). This yields complicated semantics
in that we have to deal with tasks on different RQs and the
set_task_cpu() calls in copy_process() and sched_fork()

Rename ->task_new() to ->task_fork() and call it from sched_fork()
before the balancing, this gives the policy a clear point to place the
task.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:03:05 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner dba091b9e3 sched: Protect sched_rr_get_param() access to task->sched_class
sched_rr_get_param calls
task->sched_class->get_rr_interval(task) without protection
against a concurrent sched_setscheduler() call which modifies
task->sched_class.

Serialize the access with task_rq_lock(task) and hand the rq
pointer into get_rr_interval() as it's needed at least in the
sched_fair implementation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912090930120.3089@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:01:07 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 16bc67edeb Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up fixes that did not make it into .32.0

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 10:50:42 +01:00
Tim Blechmann 36ace27e3e sched: Optimize branch hint in pick_next_task_fair()
Branch hint profiling on my nehalem machine showed 90%
incorrect branch hints:

  15728471 158903754  90 pick_next_task_fair
  sched_fair.c    1555

Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0BBBB1.2050100@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-24 12:18:12 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra fe3bcfe1f6 sched: More generic WAKE_AFFINE vs select_idle_sibling()
Instead of only considering SD_WAKE_AFFINE | SD_PREFER_SIBLING
domains also allow all SD_PREFER_SIBLING domains below a
SD_WAKE_AFFINE domain to change the affinity target.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091112145610.909723612@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-13 10:09:59 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra a50bde5130 sched: Cleanup select_task_rq_fair()
Clean up the new affine to idle sibling bits while trying to
grok them. Should not have any function differences.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091112145610.832503781@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-13 10:09:58 +01:00
Mike Galbraith fd210738f6 sched: Fix affinity logic in select_task_rq_fair()
Ingo Molnar reported:

[   26.804000] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: events/1/10
[   26.808000] caller is vmstat_update+0x26/0x70
[   26.812000] Pid: 10, comm: events/1 Not tainted 2.6.32-rc5 #6887
[   26.816000] Call Trace:
[   26.820000]  [<c1924a24>] ? printk+0x28/0x3c
[   26.824000]  [<c13258a0>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xf0/0x110
[   26.824000] mount used greatest stack depth: 1464 bytes left
[   26.828000]  [<c111d086>] vmstat_update+0x26/0x70
[   26.832000]  [<c1086418>] worker_thread+0x188/0x310
[   26.836000]  [<c10863b7>] ? worker_thread+0x127/0x310
[   26.840000]  [<c108d310>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60
[   26.844000]  [<c1086290>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x310
[   26.848000]  [<c108cf0c>] kthread+0x7c/0x90
[   26.852000]  [<c108ce90>] ? kthread+0x0/0x90
[   26.856000]  [<c100c0a7>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[   26.860000] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: events/1/10
[   26.864000] caller is vmstat_update+0x3c/0x70

Because this commit:

  a1f84a3: sched: Check for an idle shared cache in select_task_rq_fair()

broke ->cpus_allowed.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1257415066.12867.1.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-05 11:01:39 +01:00
Mike Galbraith a1f84a3ab8 sched: Check for an idle shared cache in select_task_rq_fair()
When waking affine, check for an idle shared cache, and if
found, wake to that CPU/sibling instead of the waker's CPU.

This improves pgsql+oltp ramp up by roughly 8%. Possibly more
for other loads, depending on overlap. The trade-off is a
roughly 1% peak downturn if tasks are truly synchronous.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1256654138.17752.7.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04 18:46:22 +01:00
Mike Galbraith f685ceacab sched: Strengthen buddies and mitigate buddy induced latencies
This patch restores the effectiveness of LAST_BUDDY in preventing
pgsql+oltp from collapsing due to wakeup preemption. It also
switches LAST_BUDDY to exclusively do what it does best, namely
mitigate the effects of aggressive wakeup preemption, which
improves vmark throughput markedly, and restores mysql+oltp
scalability.

Since buddies are about scalability, enable them beginning at the
point where we begin expanding sched_latency, namely
sched_nr_latency. Previously, buddies were cleared aggressively,
which seriously reduced their effectiveness. Not clearing
aggressively however, produces a small drop in mysql+oltp
throughput immediately after peak, indicating that LAST_BUDDY is
actually doing some harm. This is right at the point where X on the
desktop in competition with another load wants low latency service.
Ergo, do not enable until we need to scale.

To mitigate latency induced by buddies, or by a task just missing
wakeup preemption, check latency at tick time.

Last hunk prevents buddies from stymieing BALANCE_NEWIDLE via
CACHE_HOT_BUDDY.

Supporting performance tests:

 tip   = v2.6.32-rc5-1497-ga525b32
 tipx  = NO_GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS NEXT_BUDDY granularity knobs = 31 knobs + 31 buddies
 tip+x = NO_GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS granularity knobs = 31 knobs

(Three run averages except where noted.)

 vmark:
 ------
 tip           108466 messages per second
 tip+          125307 messages per second
 tip+x         125335 messages per second
 tipx          117781 messages per second
 2.6.31.3      122729 messages per second

 mysql+oltp:
 -----------
 clients          1        2        4        8       16       32       64        128    256
 ..........................................................................................
 tip        9949.89 18690.20 34801.24 34460.04 32682.88 30765.97 28305.27 25059.64 19548.08
 tip+      10013.90 18526.84 34900.38 34420.14 33069.83 32083.40 30578.30 28010.71 25605.47
 tipx       9698.71 18002.70 34477.56 33420.01 32634.30 31657.27 29932.67 26827.52 21487.18
 2.6.31.3   8243.11 18784.20 34404.83 33148.38 31900.32 31161.90 29663.81 25995.94 18058.86

 pgsql+oltp:
 -----------
 clients          1        2        4        8       16       32       64      128      256
 ..........................................................................................
 tip       13686.37 26609.25 51934.28 51347.81 49479.51 45312.65 36691.91 26851.57 24145.35
 tip+ (1x) 13907.85 27135.87 52951.98 52514.04 51742.52 50705.43 49947.97 48374.19 46227.94
 tip+x     13906.78 27065.81 52951.19 52542.59 52176.11 51815.94 50838.90 49439.46 46891.00
 tipx      13742.46 26769.81 52351.99 51891.73 51320.79 50938.98 50248.65 48908.70 46553.84
 2.6.31.3  13815.35 26906.46 52683.34 52061.31 51937.10 51376.80 50474.28 49394.47 47003.25

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23 23:48:28 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 92f6a5e37a sched: Do less agressive buddy clearing
Yanmin reported a hackbench regression due to:

 > commit de69a80be3
 > Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
 > Date:   Thu Sep 17 09:01:20 2009 +0200
 >
 >     sched: Stop buddies from hogging the system

I really liked de69a80b, and it affecting hackbench shows I wasn't
crazy ;-)

So hackbench is a multi-cast, with one sender spraying multiple
receivers, who in their turn don't spray back.

This would be exactly the scenario that patch 'cures'. Previously
we would not clear the last buddy after running the next task,
allowing the sender to get back to work sooner than it otherwise
ought to have been, increasing latencies for other tasks.

Now, since those receivers don't poke back, they don't enforce the
buddy relation, which means there's nothing to re-elect the sender.

Cure this by less agressively clearing the buddy stats. Only clear
buddies when they were not chosen. It should still avoid a buddy
sticking around long after its served its time.

Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1255084986.8802.46.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-14 15:02:34 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan 8d65af789f sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler
It's unused.

It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.

It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8e4bc3dd2c Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of 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: Simplify sys_sched_rr_get_interval() system call
  sched: Fix potential NULL derference of doms_cur
  sched: Fix raciness in runqueue_is_locked()
  sched: Re-add lost cpu_allowed check to sched_fair.c::select_task_rq_fair()
  sched: Remove unneeded indentation in sched_fair.c::place_entity()
2009-09-21 09:06:17 -07:00
Peter Williams 0d721ceadb sched: Simplify sys_sched_rr_get_interval() system call
By removing the need for it to know details of scheduling classes.

This allows PlugSched to define orthogonal scheduling classes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <06d1b89ee15a0eef82d7.1253496713@mudlark.pw.nest>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 09:53:55 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 3f04e8cd5b sched: Re-add lost cpu_allowed check to sched_fair.c::select_task_rq_fair()
While doing some testing, I pinned mplayer, only to find it
following X around like a puppy. Looking at commit c88d591, I found
a cpu_allowed check that went AWOL.  I plugged it back in where it
looks like it needs to go, and now when I say "sit, stay!", mplayer
obeys again.

'c88d591 sched: Merge select_task_rq_fair() and
sched_balance_self()' accidentally dropped the check, causing
wake_affine() to pull pinned tasks - put it back.

[ v2: use a cheaper version from Peter ]

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 17:11:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 929bf0d015 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: Bring in tracing changes we depend on.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 11:28:41 +02:00
Mike Galbraith a2e7a7eb2f sched: Remove unneeded indentation in sched_fair.c::place_entity()
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1253258365.22787.33.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18 09:22:39 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 29cd8bae39 sched: Fix SD_POWERSAVING_BALANCE|SD_PREFER_LOCAL vs SD_WAKE_AFFINE
The SD_POWERSAVING_BALANCE|SD_PREFER_LOCAL code can break out of
the domain iteration early, making us miss the SD_WAKE_AFFINE bits.

Fix this by continuing iteration until there is no need for a
larger domain.

This also cleans up the cgroup stuff a bit, but not having two
update_shares() invocations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-17 10:40:31 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra de69a80be3 sched: Stop buddies from hogging the system
Clear buddies more agressively.

The (theoretical, haven't actually observed any of this) problem is
that when we do not select either buddy in pick_next_entity()
because they are too far ahead of the left-most task, we do not
clear the buddies.

This means that as soon as we service the left-most task, these
same buddies will be tried again on the next schedule. Now if the
left-most task was a pure hog, it wouldn't have done any wakeups
and it wouldn't have set buddies of its own. That leads to the old
buddies dominating, which would lead to bad latencies.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-17 10:40:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ad4b78bbcb sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING
Create a new wakeup preemption mode, preempt towards tasks that run
shorter on avg. It sets next buddy to be sure we actually run the task
we preempted for.

Test results:

 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done &
 [1] 6537
 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done &
 [2] 6538
 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done &
 [3] 6539
 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done &
 [4] 6540

 root@twins:/home/peter# ./latt -c4 sleep 4
 Entries: 48 (clients=4)

 Averages:
 ------------------------------
        Max          4750 usec
        Avg           497 usec
        Stdev         737 usec

 root@twins:/home/peter# echo WAKEUP_RUNNING > /debug/sched_features

 root@twins:/home/peter# ./latt -c4 sleep 4
 Entries: 48 (clients=4)

 Averages:
 ------------------------------
        Max            14 usec
        Avg             5 usec
        Stdev           3 usec

Disabled by default - needs more testing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
2009-09-17 10:17:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 5a9b86f647 sched: Rename flags to wake_flags
For consistencies sake, rename the argument (again).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16 16:44:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 5158f4e442 sched: Clean up the load_idx selection in select_task_rq_fair
Clean up the code a little.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16 16:44:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 3b64089422 sched: Optimize cgroup vs wakeup a bit
We don't need to call update_shares() for each domain we iterate,
just got the largets one.

However, we should call it before wake_affine() as well, so that
that can use up-to-date values too.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16 16:44:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 51e0304ce6 sched: Implement a gentler fair-sleepers feature
Add back FAIR_SLEEPERS and GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS.

FAIR_SLEEPERS is the old logic: credit sleepers with their sleep time.

GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS dampens this a bit: 50% of their sleep time gets
credited.

The hope here is to still give the benefits of fair-sleepers logic
(quick wakeups, etc.) while not allow them to have 100% of their
sleep time as if they were running.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16 09:05:20 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 59abf02644 sched: Add SD_PREFER_LOCAL
And turn it on for NUMA and MC domains. This improves
locality in balancing decisions by keeping up to
capacity amount of tasks local before looking for idle
CPUs. (and twice the capacity if SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE
is set.)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16 08:42:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra e69b0f1b41 sched: Add a few SYNC hint knobs to play with
Currently we use overlap to weaken the SYNC hint, but allow it to
set the hint as well.

 echo NO_SYNC_WAKEUP > /debug/sched_features
 echo SYNC_MORE > /debug/sched_features

preserves pipe-test behaviour without using the WF_SYNC hint.

Worth playing with on more workloads...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 19:47:23 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra a7558e0105 sched: Add WF_FORK
Avoid the cache buddies from biasing the time distribution away
from fork()ers. Normally the next buddy will be the preferred
scheduling target, but this makes fork()s prefer to run the new
child, whereas we prefer to run the parent, since that will
generate more work.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:31 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7d47872146 sched: Rename sync arguments
In order to extend the functions to have more than 1 flag (sync),
rename the argument to flags, and explicitly define a WF_ space for
individual flags.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 0763a660a8 sched: Rename select_task_rq() argument
In order to be able to rename the sync argument, we need to rename
the current flag argument.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:29 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 78e7ed53c9 sched: Tweak wake_idx
When merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self() we lost
the use of wake_idx, restore that and set them to 0 to make wake
balancing more aggressive.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:07 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra d7c33c4930 sched: Fix task affinity for select_task_rq_fair
While merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self() I made
a mistake that leads to testing the wrong task affinty.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:07 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 83f54960c1 sched: for_each_domain() vs RCU
for_each_domain() uses RCU to serialize the sched_domains, except
it doesn't actually use rcu_read_lock() and instead relies on
disabling preemption -> FAIL.

XXX: audit other sched_domain code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ae154be1f3 sched: Weaken SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE
One of the problems of power-saving balancing is that under certain
scenarios it is too slow and allows tons of real work to pile up.

Avoid this by ignoring the powersave stuff when there's real work
to be done.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c88d591089 sched: Merge select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self()
The problem with wake_idle() is that is doesn't respect things like
cpu_power, which means it doesn't deal well with SMT nor the recent
RT interaction.

To cure this, it needs to do what sched_balance_self() does, which
leads to the possibility of merging select_task_rq_fair() and
sched_balance_self().

Modify sched_balance_self() to:

  - update_shares() when walking up the domain tree,
    (it only called it for the top domain, but it should
     have done this anyway), which allows us to remove
    this ugly bit from try_to_wake_up().

  - do wake_affine() on the smallest domain that contains
    both this (the waking) and the prev (the wakee) cpu for
    WAKE invocations.

Then use the top-down balance steps it had to replace wake_idle().

This leads to the dissapearance of SD_WAKE_BALANCE and
SD_WAKE_IDLE_FAR, with SD_WAKE_IDLE replaced with SD_BALANCE_WAKE.

SD_WAKE_AFFINE needs SD_BALANCE_WAKE to be effective.

Touch all topology bits to replace the old with new SD flags --
platforms might need re-tuning, enabling SD_BALANCE_WAKE
conditionally on a NUMA distance seems like a good additional
feature, magny-core and small nehalem systems would want this
enabled, systems with slow interconnects would not.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 5f3edc1b1e sched: Hook sched_balance_self() into sched_class::select_task_rq()
Rather ugly patch to fully place the sched_balance_self() code
inside the fair class.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:04 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra aaee1203ca sched: Move sched_balance_self() into sched_fair.c
Move the sched_balance_self() code into sched_fair.c

This facilitates the merger of sched_balance_self() and
sched_fair::select_task_rq().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:04 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 3cb63d527f sched: Complete buddy switches
Add a NEXT_BUDDY feature flag to aid in debugging.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra e6b1b2c9c0 sched: Split WAKEUP_OVERLAP
It consists of two conditions, split them out in separate toggles
so we can test them independently.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f977bb4937 perf_counter, sched: Add sched_stat_runtime tracepoint
This allows more precise tracking of how the scheduler accounts
(and acts upon) a task having spent N nanoseconds of CPU time.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-13 18:17:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar e1f8450854 sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field
This weird perf trace output:

  cc1-9943  [001]  2802.059479616: sched_stat_wait: task: as:9944 wait: 2801938766276 [ns]

Is caused by setting one component field of the delta to zero
a bit too early. Move it to later.

( Note, this does not affect the NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS interactivity bug,
  it's just a reporting bug in essence. )

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <4AA93D34.8040500@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-10 20:52:54 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 172e082a91 sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies
Reduce the latency target from 20 msecs to 5 msecs.

Why? Larger latencies increase spread, which is good for scaling,
but bad for worst case latency.

We still have the ilog(nr_cpus) rule to scale up on bigger
server boxes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09 17:30:06 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 2bba22c50b sched: Turn off child_runs_first
Set child_runs_first default to off.

It hurts 'optimal' make -j<NR_CPUS> workloads as make jobs
get preempted by child tasks, reducing parallelism.

Note, this patch might make existing races in user
applications more prominent than before - so breakages
might be bisected to this commit.

Child-runs-first is broken on SMP to begin with, and we
already had it off briefly in v2.6.23 so most of the
offenders ought to be fixed. Would be nice not to revert
this commit but fix those apps finally ...

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
[ made the sysctl independent of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, in case
  people want to work around broken apps. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09 17:30:05 +02:00
Mike Galbraith b5d9d734a5 sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()
A fork/exec load is usually "pass the baton", so the child
should never be placed behind the parent.  With START_DEBIT we
make room for the new task, but with child_runs_first, that
room comes out of the _parent's_ hide. There's nothing to say
that the parent wasn't ahead of min_vruntime at fork() time,
which means that the "baton carrier", who is essentially the
parent in drag, can gain time and increase scheduling latencies
for waiters.

With NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS + START_DEBIT + child_runs_first
enabled, we essentially pass the sleeper fairness off to the
child, which is fine, but if we don't base placement on the
parent's updated vruntime, we can end up compounding latency
woes if the child itself then does fork/exec.  The debit
incurred at fork doesn't hurt the parent who is then going to
sleep and maybe exit, but the child who acquires the error
harms all comers.

This improves latencies of make -j<n> kernel build workloads.

Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-08 13:15:34 +02:00