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Jens Axboe f5ff8422bb Fix warnings with !CONFIG_BLOCK
Hide everything in blkdev.h with CONFIG_BLOCK isn't set, and fixup
the (few) files that fail to build because they were relying on blkdev.h
pulling in extra includes for them.

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

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

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

with sched_compat_yield=0:

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

with sched_compat_yield=1:

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

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

found by Adrian Bunk.

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

this also removes some code:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Invert this relation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fix this.

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

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

Similarly MC scheduler optimizations also get fixed with this patch.

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

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

- The directories have impossible permissions (writeable).

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

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

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

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

the ACPI bits were acked by Len.

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

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

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

- arch_reinit_sched_domains()
- struct attr_sched_mc_power_savings
- struct attr_sched_smt_power_savings

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

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

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

(this is pretty theoretical though)

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

the current error table is:

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

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

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

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

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

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

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

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

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

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

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

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

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

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

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

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

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

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

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

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

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

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

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

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

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

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 31ee529cc2 sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->put_prev_task()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->put_prev_task().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar ff95f3df54 sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from pick_next_task()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from pick_next_task().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar fb8d472402 sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->pick_next_task()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->pick_next_task().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f02231e51a sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->dequeue_task()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->dequeue_task().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar fd390f6a04 sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->enqueue_task()
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->enqueue_task().

( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d281918d7c sched: remove 'now' use from assignments
change all 'now' timestamp uses in assignments to rq->clock.

( this is an identity transformation that causes no functionality change:
  all such new rq->clock is necessarily preceded by an update_rq_clock()
  call. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar eb59449400 sched: remove __rq_clock()
remove the (now unused) __rq_clock() function.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c1b3da3ecd sched: eliminate __rq_clock() use
eliminate __rq_clock() use by changing it to:

   __update_rq_clock(rq)
   now = rq->clock;

identity transformation - no change in behavior.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 2ab81159fa sched: remove rq_clock()
remove the now unused rq_clock() function.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar a8e504d2a5 sched: eliminate rq_clock() use
eliminate rq_clock() use by changing it to:

   update_rq_clock(rq)
   now = rq->clock;

identity transformation - no change in behavior.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar b04a0f4c16 sched: add [__]update_rq_clock(rq)
add the [__]update_rq_clock(rq) functions. (No change in functionality,
just reorganization to prepare for elimination of the heavy 64-bit
timestamp-passing in the scheduler.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:46 +02:00
Peter Williams a4ac01c36e sched: fix bug in balance_tasks()
There are two problems with balance_tasks() and how it used:

1. The variables best_prio and best_prio_seen (inherited from the old
move_tasks()) were only required to handle problems caused by the
active/expired arrays, the order in which they were processed and the
possibility that the task with the highest priority could be on either.
  These issues are no longer present and the extra overhead associated
with their use is unnecessary (and possibly wrong).

2. In the absence of CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED being set, the same
this_best_prio variable needs to be used by all scheduling classes or
there is a risk of moving too much load.  E.g. if the highest priority
task on this at the beginning is a fairly low priority task and the rt
class migrates a task (during its turn) then that moved task becomes the
new highest priority task on this_rq but when the sched_fair class
initializes its copy of this_best_prio it will get the priority of the
original highest priority task as, due to the run queue locks being
held, the reschedule triggered by pull_task() will not have taken place.
  This could result in inappropriate overriding of skip_for_load and
excessive load being moved.

The attached patch addresses these problems by deleting all reference to
best_prio and best_prio_seen and making this_best_prio a reference
parameter to the various functions involved.

load_balance_fair() has also been modified so that this_best_prio is
only reset (in the loop) if CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is set.  This should
preserve the effect of helping spread groups' higher priority tasks
around the available CPUs while improving system performance when
CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED isn't set.

Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:46 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan e0361851e5 sched: remove binary sysctls from kernel.sched_domain
kernel.sched_domain hierarchy is under CTL_UNNUMBERED and thus
unreachable to sysctl(2). Generating .ctl_number's in such situation is
not useful.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 8e717b194c sched: schedule() speedup
speed up schedule(): share the 'now' parameter that deactivate_task()
was calculating internally.

( this also fixes the small accounting window between the deactivate
  call and the pick_next_task() call. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 7bfd048587 sched: uninline rq_clock()
uninline rq_clock() to save 263 bytes of code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   39561    3642      24   43227    a8db sched.o.before
   39298    3642      24   42964    a7d4 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:46 +02:00