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Peter Zijlstra 147c5fc2ba sched/fair: Shrink sg_lb_stats and play memset games
We can shrink sg_lb_stats because rq::nr_running is an unsigned int
and cpu numbers are 'int'

Before:
  sgs:        /* size: 72, cachelines: 2, members: 10 */
  sds:        /* size: 184, cachelines: 3, members: 7 */

After:
  sgs:        /* size: 56, cachelines: 1, members: 10 */
  sds:        /* size: 152, cachelines: 3, members: 7 */

Further we can avoid clearing all of sds since we do a total
clear/assignment of sg_stats in update_sg_lb_stats() with exception of
busiest_stat.avg_load which is referenced in update_sd_pick_busiest().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0klzmz9okll8wc0nsudguc9p@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:35 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim 56cf515b4b sched: Clean-up struct sd_lb_stat
There is no reason to maintain separate variables for this_group
and busiest_group in sd_lb_stat, except saving some space.
But this structure is always allocated in stack, so this saving
isn't really benificial [peterz: reducing stack space is good; in this
case readability increases enough that I think its still beneficial]

This patch unify these variables, so IMO, readability may be improved.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
[ Rename this to local -- avoids confusion between this_cpu and the C++ this pointer. ]
Reviewed-by: Paul  Turner <pjt@google.com>
[ Lots of style edits, a few fixes and a rename. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375778203-31343-4-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:35 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim 23f0d2093c sched: Factor out code to should_we_balance()
Now checking whether this cpu is appropriate to balance or not
is embedded into update_sg_lb_stats() and this checking has no direct
relationship to this function. There is not enough reason to place
this checking at update_sg_lb_stats(), except saving one iteration
for sched_group_cpus.

In this patch, I factor out this checking to should_we_balance() function.
And before doing actual work for load_balancing, check whether this cpu is
appropriate to balance via should_we_balance(). If this cpu is not
a candidate for balancing, it quit the work immediately.

With this change, we can save two memset cost and can expect better
compiler optimization.

Below is result of this patch.

 * Vanilla *
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  34499	   1136	    116	  35751	   8ba7	kernel/sched/fair.o

 * Patched *
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  34243	   1136	    116	  35495	   8aa7	kernel/sched/fair.o

In addition, rename @balance to @continue_balancing in order to represent
its purpose more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
[ s/should_balance/continue_balancing/g ]
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
[ Made style changes and a fix in should_we_balance(). ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375778203-31343-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:34 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim 95a79b805b sched: Remove one division operation in find_busiest_queue()
Remove one division operation in find_busiest_queue() by using
crosswise multiplication:

	wl_i / power_i > wl_j / power_j :=
	wl_i * power_j > wl_j * power_i

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
[ Expanded the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375778203-31343-2-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:26:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar aee2bce3cf Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Pick up the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-29 12:02:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d3ec3a1fd0 Linux 3.11-rc5
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Merge tag 'v3.11-rc5' into sched/core

Merge Linux 3.11-rc5, to pick up the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-16 17:40:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c9572f010d Linux 3.11-rc5
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Merge Linux 3.11-rc5, to sync up with the latest upstream fixes since -rc1.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-15 10:00:09 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 28fbc8b6a2 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Docbook fixes that make 99% of the diffstat, plus a oneliner fix"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Ensure update_cfs_shares() is called for parents of continuously-running tasks
  sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
2013-08-13 16:58:17 -07:00
Dave Kleikamp 10e84b97ed mm: sched: numa: fix NUMA balancing when !SCHED_DEBUG
Commit 3105b86a9f ("mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of
NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG") defined numabalancing_enabled to
control the enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing, but it
is never used.

I believe the intention was to use this in place of sched_feat_numa(NUMA).

Currently, if SCHED_DEBUG is not defined, sched_feat_numa(NUMA) will
never be changed from the initial "false".

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-31 14:41:02 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra bf0bd948d1 sched: Ensure update_cfs_shares() is called for parents of continuously-running tasks
We typically update a task_group's shares within the dequeue/enqueue
path.  However, continuously running tasks sharing a CPU are not
subject to these updates as they are only put/picked.  Unfortunately,
when we reverted f269ae046 (in 17bc14b7), we lost the augmenting
periodic update that was supposed to account for this; resulting in a
potential loss of fairness.

To fix this, re-introduce the explicit update in
update_cfs_rq_blocked_load() [called via entity_tick()].

Reported-by: Max Hailperin <max@gustavus.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9545m3apw5d93ubyrotrj31y@git.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-30 22:14:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7d9ffa8961 sched: Micro-optimize the smart wake-affine logic
Smart wake-affine is using node-size as the factor currently, but the overhead
of the mask operation is high.

Thus, this patch introduce the 'sd_llc_size' percpu variable, which will record
the highest cache-share domain size, and make it to be the new factor, in order
to reduce the overhead and make it more reasonable.

Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Tested-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51D5008E.6030102@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Tidied up the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23 12:22:06 +02:00
Michael Wang 62470419e9 sched: Implement smarter wake-affine logic
The wake-affine scheduler feature is currently always trying to pull
the wakee close to the waker. In theory this should be beneficial if
the waker's CPU caches hot data for the wakee, and it's also beneficial
in the extreme ping-pong high context switch rate case.

Testing shows it can benefit hackbench up to 15%.

However, the feature is somewhat blind, from which some workloads
such as pgbench suffer. It's also time-consuming algorithmically.

Testing shows it can damage pgbench up to 50% - far more than the
benefit it brings in the best case.

So wake-affine should be smarter and it should realize when to
stop its thankless effort at trying to find a suitable CPU to wake on.

This patch introduces 'wakee_flips', which will be increased each
time the task flips (switches) its wakee target.

So a high 'wakee_flips' value means the task has more than one
wakee, and the bigger the number, the higher the wakeup frequency.

Now when making the decision on whether to pull or not, pay attention to
the wakee with a high 'wakee_flips', pulling such a task may benefit
the wakee. Also imply that the waker will face cruel competition later,
it could be very cruel or very fast depends on the story behind
'wakee_flips', waker therefore suffers.

Furthermore, if waker also has a high 'wakee_flips', that implies that
multiple tasks rely on it, then waker's higher latency will damage all
of them, so pulling wakee seems to be a bad deal.

Thus, when 'waker->wakee_flips / wakee->wakee_flips' becomes
higher and higher, the cost of pulling seems to be worse and worse.

The patch therefore helps the wake-affine feature to stop its pulling
work when:

	wakee->wakee_flips > factor &&
	waker->wakee_flips > (factor * wakee->wakee_flips)

The 'factor' here is the number of CPUs in the current CPU's NUMA node,
so a bigger node will lead to more pulling since the trial becomes more
severe.

After applying the patch, pgbench shows up to 40% improvements and no regressions.

Tested with 12 cpu x86 server and tip 3.10.0-rc7.

The percentages in the final column highlight the areas with the biggest wins,
all other areas improved as well:

	pgbench		    base	smart

	| db_size | clients |  tps  |	|  tps  |
	+---------+---------+-------+   +-------+
	| 22 MB   |       1 | 10598 |   | 10796 |
	| 22 MB   |       2 | 21257 |   | 21336 |
	| 22 MB   |       4 | 41386 |   | 41622 |
	| 22 MB   |       8 | 51253 |   | 57932 |
	| 22 MB   |      12 | 48570 |   | 54000 |
	| 22 MB   |      16 | 46748 |   | 55982 | +19.75%
	| 22 MB   |      24 | 44346 |   | 55847 | +25.93%
	| 22 MB   |      32 | 43460 |   | 54614 | +25.66%
	| 7484 MB |       1 |  8951 |   |  9193 |
	| 7484 MB |       2 | 19233 |   | 19240 |
	| 7484 MB |       4 | 37239 |   | 37302 |
	| 7484 MB |       8 | 46087 |   | 50018 |
	| 7484 MB |      12 | 42054 |   | 48763 |
	| 7484 MB |      16 | 40765 |   | 51633 | +26.66%
	| 7484 MB |      24 | 37651 |   | 52377 | +39.11%
	| 7484 MB |      32 | 37056 |   | 51108 | +37.92%
	| 15 GB   |       1 |  8845 |   |  9104 |
	| 15 GB   |       2 | 19094 |   | 19162 |
	| 15 GB   |       4 | 36979 |   | 36983 |
	| 15 GB   |       8 | 46087 |   | 49977 |
	| 15 GB   |      12 | 41901 |   | 48591 |
	| 15 GB   |      16 | 40147 |   | 50651 | +26.16%
	| 15 GB   |      24 | 37250 |   | 52365 | +40.58%
	| 15 GB   |      32 | 36470 |   | 50015 | +37.14%

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51D50057.9000809@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Improved the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23 12:18:41 +02:00
Vladimir Davydov 685207963b sched: Move h_load calculation to task_h_load()
The bad thing about update_h_load(), which computes hierarchical load
factor for task groups, is that it is called for each task group in the
system before every load balancer run, and since rebalance can be
triggered very often, this function can eat really a lot of cpu time if
there are many cpu cgroups in the system.

Although the situation was improved significantly by commit a35b646
('sched, cgroup: Reduce rq->lock hold times for large cgroup
hierarchies'), the problem still can arise under some kinds of loads,
e.g. when cpus are switching from idle to busy and back very frequently.

For instance, when I start 1000 of processes that wake up every
millisecond on my 8 cpus host, 'top' and 'perf top' show:

Cpu(s): 17.8%us, 24.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 57.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si
Events: 243K cycles
  7.57%  [kernel]               [k] __schedule
  7.08%  [kernel]               [k] timerqueue_add
  6.13%  libc-2.12.so           [.] usleep

Then if I create 10000 *idle* cpu cgroups (no processes in them), cpu
usage increases significantly although the 'wakers' are still executing
in the root cpu cgroup:

Cpu(s): 19.1%us, 48.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 31.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.7%si
Events: 230K cycles
 24.56%  [kernel]            [k] tg_load_down
  5.76%  [kernel]            [k] __schedule

This happens because this particular kind of load triggers 'new idle'
rebalance very frequently, which requires calling update_h_load(),
which, in turn, calls tg_load_down() for every *idle* cpu cgroup even
though it is absolutely useless, because idle cpu cgroups have no tasks
to pull.

This patch tries to improve the situation by making h_load calculation
proceed only when h_load is really necessary. To achieve this, it
substitutes update_h_load() with update_cfs_rq_h_load(), which computes
h_load only for a given cfs_rq and all its ascendants, and makes the
load balancer call this function whenever it considers if a task should
be pulled, i.e. it moves h_load calculations directly to task_h_load().
For h_load of the same cfs_rq not to be updated multiple times (in case
several tasks in the same cgroup are considered during the same balance
run), the patch keeps the time of the last h_load update for each cfs_rq
and breaks calculation when it finds h_load to be uptodate.

The benefit of it is that h_load is computed only for those cfs_rq's,
which really need it, in particular all idle task groups are skipped.
Although this, in fact, moves h_load calculation under rq lock, it
should not affect latency much, because the amount of work done under rq
lock while trying to pull tasks is limited by sched_nr_migrate.

After the patch applied with the setup described above (1000 wakers in
the root cgroup and 10000 idle cgroups), I get:

Cpu(s): 16.9%us, 24.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 58.4%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si
Events: 242K cycles
  7.57%  [kernel]                  [k] __schedule
  6.70%  [kernel]                  [k] timerqueue_add
  5.93%  libc-2.12.so              [.] usleep

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373896159-1278-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23 12:18:41 +02:00
Kirill Tkhai 87e3c8ae1c sched/fair: Cleanup: remove duplicate variable declaration
cfs_rq is declared twice, fix it.

Also use 'se' instead of '&p->se'.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/169201374366727@web6d.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-22 10:27:40 +02:00
Yacine Belkadi e69f61862a sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
When building the htmldocs (in verbose mode), scripts/kernel-doc
reports the follwing type of warnings:

  Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:936): No description found for return value of 'task_curr'
  ...

Fix those by:

 - adding the missing descriptions
 - using "Return" sections for the descriptions

Signed-off-by: Yacine Belkadi <yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373654747-2389-1-git-send-email-yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com
[ While at it, fix the cpupri_set() explanation. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-18 09:58:21 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker 0db0628d90 kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
Kamalesh Babulal 0fc576d592 sched/fair: Fix typo describing flags in enqueue_entity
Fix spelling of 'calling' in description of se flags in
enqueue_entity().

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130627055418.GA18582@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:18:25 +02:00
Alex Shi 2509940fd7 sched/cfs_rq: Change atomic64_t removed_load to atomic_long_t
Similar to runnable_load_avg, blocked_load_avg variable, long type is
enough for removed_load in 64 bit or 32 bit machine.

Then we avoid the expensive atomic64 operations on 32 bit machine.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-12-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:41 +02:00
Alex Shi bf5b986ed4 sched/tg: Use 'unsigned long' for load variable in task group
Since tg->load_avg is smaller than tg->load_weight, we don't need a
atomic64_t variable for load_avg in 32 bit machine.
The same reason for cfs_rq->tg_load_contrib.

The atomic_long_t/unsigned long variable type are more efficient and
convenience for them.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-11-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:40 +02:00
Alex Shi 72a4cf20cb sched: Change cfs_rq load avg to unsigned long
Since the 'u64 runnable_load_avg, blocked_load_avg' in cfs_rq struct are
smaller than 'unsigned long' cfs_rq->load.weight. We don't need u64
vaiables to describe them. unsigned long is more efficient and convenience.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-10-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:38 +02:00
Alex Shi a003a25b22 sched: Consider runnable load average in move_tasks()
Aside from using runnable load average in background, move_tasks is
also the key function in load balance. We need consider the runnable
load average in it in order to make it an apple to apple load
comparison.

Morten had caught a div u64 bug on ARM, thanks!

Thanks-to: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-8-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:36 +02:00
Alex Shi b92486cbf2 sched: Compute runnable load avg in cpu_load and cpu_avg_load_per_task
They are the base values in load balance, update them with rq runnable
load average, then the load balance will consider runnable load avg
naturally.

We also try to include the blocked_load_avg as cpu load in balancing,
but that cause kbuild performance drop 6% on every Intel machine, and
aim7/oltp drop on some of 4 CPU sockets machines.
Or only add blocked_load_avg into get_rq_runable_load, hackbench still
drop a little on NHM EX.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-7-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:35 +02:00
Alex Shi 282cf499f0 sched: Fix sleep time double accounting in enqueue entity
The woken migrated task will __synchronize_entity_decay(se); in
migrate_task_rq_fair, then it needs to set
`se->avg.last_runnable_update -= (-se->avg.decay_count) << 20' before
update_entity_load_avg, in order to avoid sleep time is updated twice
for se.avg.load_avg_contrib in both __syncchronize and
update_entity_load_avg.

However if the sleeping task is woken up from the same cpu, it miss
the last_runnable_update before update_entity_load_avg(se, 0, 1), then
the sleep time was used twice in both functions.  So we need to remove
the double sleep time accounting.

Paul also contributed some code comments in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-5-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:32 +02:00
Alex Shi a75cdaa915 sched: Set an initial value of runnable avg for new forked task
We need to initialize the se.avg.{decay_count, load_avg_contrib} for a
new forked task. Otherwise random values of above variables cause a
mess when a new task is enqueued:

    enqueue_task_fair
        enqueue_entity
            enqueue_entity_load_avg

and make fork balancing imbalance due to incorrect load_avg_contrib.

Further more, Morten Rasmussen notice some tasks were not launched at
once after created. So Paul and Peter suggest giving a start value for
new task runnable avg time same as sched_slice().

PeterZ said:

> So the 'problem' is that our running avg is a 'floating' average; ie. it
> decays with time. Now we have to guess about the future of our newly
> spawned task -- something that is nigh impossible seeing these CPU
> vendors keep refusing to implement the crystal ball instruction.
>
> So there's two asymptotic cases we want to deal well with; 1) the case
> where the newly spawned program will be 'nearly' idle for its lifetime;
> and 2) the case where its cpu-bound.
>
> Since we have to guess, we'll go for worst case and assume its
> cpu-bound; now we don't want to make the avg so heavy adjusting to the
> near-idle case takes forever. We want to be able to quickly adjust and
> lower our running avg.
>
> Now we also don't want to make our avg too light, such that it gets
> decremented just for the new task not having had a chance to run yet --
> even if when it would run, it would be more cpu-bound than not.
>
> So what we do is we make the initial avg of the same duration as that we
> guess it takes to run each task on the system at least once -- aka
> sched_slice().
>
> Of course we can defeat this with wakeup/fork bombs, but in the 'normal'
> case it should be good enough.

Paul also contributed most of the code comments in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
[peterz; added explanation of sched_slice() usage]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-4-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:30 +02:00
Alex Shi 141965c749 Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking"
Remove CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED that covers the runnable info, then
we can use runnable load variables.

Also remove 2 CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED setting which is not in reverted
patch(introduced in 9ee474f), but also need to revert.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51CA76A3.3050207@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:22 +02:00
Michael Wang 8404c90d05 sched: Femove the useless declaration in kernel/sched/fair.c
default_cfs_period(), do_sched_cfs_period_timer(), do_sched_cfs_slack_timer()
already defined previously, no need to declare again.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51AD8808.7020608@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:41 +02:00
Michael Wang 22b958d8cc sched: Refine the code in unthrottle_cfs_rq()
Directly use rq to save some code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51AD87EB.1070605@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:41 +02:00
Kamalesh Babulal 0de358f1c2 sched/fair: Remove unused variable from expire_cfs_rq_runtime()
Commit 78becc2709 ("sched: Use an accessor to read the rq clock")
introduces rq_clock(), which obsoletes the use of the "rq" variable
in expire_cfs_rq_runtime() and triggers this build warning:

  kernel/sched/fair.c: In function 'expire_cfs_rq_runtime':
  kernel/sched/fair.c:2159:13: warning: unused variable 'rq' [-Wunused-variable]

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369904660-14169-1-git-send-email-kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-31 13:02:29 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 78becc2709 sched: Use an accessor to read the rq clock
Read the runqueue clock through an accessor. This
prepares for adding a debugging infrastructure to
detect missing or redundant calls to update_rq_clock()
between a scheduler's entry and exit point.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:27 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 1a55af2e45 sched: Update rq clock earlier in unthrottle_cfs_rq
In this function we are making use of rq->clock right before the
update of the rq clock, let's just call update_rq_clock() just
before that to avoid using a stale rq clock value.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:25 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 71b1da46ff sched: Update rq clock before setting fair group shares
Because we may update the execution time in

    sched_group_set_shares()->update_cfs_shares()->reweight_entity()->update_curr()

before reweighting the entity while setting the group shares and this requires
an uptodate version of the runqueue clock.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d07e75a6e0 Merge branch 'sched/cleanups' into sched/core
Merge reason: these bits, formerly in sched/urgent, are too late for v3.10.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 08:16:02 +02:00
Nathan Zimmer 424c93fe4c sched: Use this_rq() helper
It is a few instructions more efficent to and slightly more
readable to use this_rq()-> instead of cpu_rq(smp_processor_id())-> .

Size comparison of kernel/sched/fair.o:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  27972     122      26   28120    6dd8 fair.o.before
  27956     122      26   28104    6dc8 fair.o.after

Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368116643-87971-1-git-send-email-nzimmer@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-10 10:35:56 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker 8527632dc9 sched: Move update_load_*() methods from sched.h to fair.c
These inlines are only used by kernel/sched/fair.c so they do
not need to be present in the main kernel/sched/sched.h file.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366398650-31599-3-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-07 13:14:51 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker c032862fba Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.

Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.

Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h
	kernel/rcutree.h
	kernel/rcutree_plugin.h

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-05-02 17:54:19 +02:00
Vincent Guittot 25f55d9d01 sched: Fix init NOHZ_IDLE flag
On my SMP platform which is made of 5 cores in 2 clusters, I
have the nr_busy_cpu field of sched_group_power struct that is
not null when the platform is fully idle - which makes the
scheduler unhappy.

The root cause is:

During the boot sequence, some CPUs reach the idle loop and set
their NOHZ_IDLE flag while waiting for others CPUs to boot. But
the nr_busy_cpus field is initialized later with the assumption
that all CPUs are in the busy state whereas some CPUs have
already set their NOHZ_IDLE flag.

More generally, the NOHZ_IDLE flag must be initialized when new
sched_domains are created in order to ensure that NOHZ_IDLE and
nr_busy_cpus are aligned.

This condition can be ensured by adding a synchronize_rcu()
between the destruction of old sched_domains and the creation of
new ones so the NOHZ_IDLE flag will not be updated with old
sched_domain once it has been initialized. But this solution
introduces a additionnal latency in the rebuild sequence that is
called during cpu hotplug.

As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker, another solution is to have
the same rcu lifecycle for both NOHZ_IDLE and sched_domain
struct. A new nohz_idle field is added to sched_domain so both
status and sched_domain will share the same RCU lifecycle and
will be always synchronized. In addition, there is no more need
to protect nohz_idle against concurrent access as it is only
modified by 2 exclusive functions called by local cpu.

This solution has been prefered to the creation of a new struct
with an extra pointer indirection for sched_domain.

The synchronization is done at the cost of :

 - An additional indirection and a rcu_dereference for accessing nohz_idle.
 - We use only the nohz_idle field of the top sched_domain.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366729142-14662-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
[ Fixed !NO_HZ build bug. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-26 12:13:44 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim e02e60c109 sched: Prevent to re-select dst-cpu in load_balance()
Commit 88b8dac0 makes load_balance() consider other cpus in its
group. But, in that, there is no code for preventing to
re-select dst-cpu. So, same dst-cpu can be selected over and
over.

This patch add functionality to load_balance() in order to
exclude cpu which is selected once. We prevent to re-select
dst_cpu via env's cpus, so now, env's cpus is a candidate not
only for src_cpus, but also dst_cpus.

With this patch, we can remove lb_iterations and
max_lb_iterations, because we decide whether we can go ahead or
not via env's cpus.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-7-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:46 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim e6252c3ef4 sched: Rename load_balance_tmpmask to load_balance_mask
This name doesn't represent specific meaning.
So rename it to imply it's purpose.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-6-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:45 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim d31980846f sched: Move up affinity check to mitigate useless redoing overhead
Currently, LBF_ALL_PINNED is cleared after affinity check is
passed. So, if task migration is skipped by small load value or
small imbalance value in move_tasks(), we don't clear
LBF_ALL_PINNED. At last, we trigger 'redo' in load_balance().

Imbalance value is often so small that any tasks cannot be moved
to other cpus and, of course, this situation may be continued
after we change the target cpu. So this patch move up affinity
check code and clear LBF_ALL_PINNED before evaluating load value
in order to mitigate useless redoing overhead.

In addition, re-order some comments correctly.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-5-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:44 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim cfc0311804 sched: Don't consider other cpus in our group in case of NEWLY_IDLE
Commit 88b8dac0 makes load_balance() consider other cpus in its
group, regardless of idle type. When we do NEWLY_IDLE balancing,
we should not consider it, because a motivation of NEWLY_IDLE
balancing is to turn this cpu to non idle state if needed. This
is not the case of other cpus. So, change code not to consider
other cpus for NEWLY_IDLE balancing.

With this patch, assign 'if (pulled_task) this_rq->idle_stamp =
0' in idle_balance() is corrected, because NEWLY_IDLE balancing
doesn't consider other cpus. Assigning to 'this_rq->idle_stamp'
is now valid.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-4-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:44 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim de5eb2dd7f sched: Explicitly cpu_idle_type checking in rebalance_domains()
After commit 88b8dac0, dst-cpu can be changed in load_balance(),
then we can't know cpu_idle_type of dst-cpu when load_balance()
return positive. So, add explicit cpu_idle_type checking.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:43 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim f1cd085810 sched: Change position of resched_cpu() in load_balance()
cur_ld_moved is reset if env.flags hit LBF_NEED_BREAK.
So, there is possibility that we miss doing resched_cpu().
Correct it as changing position of resched_cpu()
before checking LBF_NEED_BREAK.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-2-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:43 +02:00
Vincent Guittot 642dbc39ab sched: Fix wrong rq's runnable_avg update with rt tasks
The current update of the rq's load can be erroneous when RT
tasks are involved.

The update of the load of a rq that becomes idle, is done only
if the avg_idle is less than sysctl_sched_migration_cost. If RT
tasks and short idle duration alternate, the runnable_avg will
not be updated correctly and the time will be accounted as idle
time when a CFS task wakes up.

A new idle_enter function is called when the next task is the
idle function so the elapsed time will be accounted as run time
in the load of the rq, whatever the average idle time is. The
function update_rq_runnable_avg is removed from idle_balance.

When a RT task is scheduled on an idle CPU, the update of the
rq's load is not done when the rq exit idle state because CFS's
functions are not called. Then, the idle_balance, which is
called just before entering the idle function, updates the rq's
load and makes the assumption that the elapsed time since the
last update, was only running time.

As a consequence, the rq's load of a CPU that only runs a
periodic RT task, is close to LOAD_AVG_MAX whatever the running
duration of the RT task is.

A new idle_exit function is called when the prev task is the
idle function so the elapsed time will be accounted as idle time
in the rq's load.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366302867-5055-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-21 11:22:52 +02:00
Libin b9b0853a4b sched: Fix comment in rebalance_domains()
A comment in function rebalance_domains() mentions
arch_init_sched_domains(), but that function does not exist
anymore. The proper function is init_sched_domains().

Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Cc: <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364814841-49156-1-git-send-email-huawei.libin@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:39:57 +02:00
Zhang Hang 4e2dcb73ae sched: Simplify can_migrate_task()
At this point tsk_cache_hot is always true, so no need to check it.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Hang <bob.zhanghang@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51650107.9040606@huawei.com
[ Also remove unnecessary schedstat #ifdefs. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 11:15:45 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 3451d0243c nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.

As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.

It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.

On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.

But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:

1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
   CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE

We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.

So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.

Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-03 13:56:03 +02:00
Andrei Epure 1bf08230f7 sched: Fix variable name misnomer, add comments
The min_vruntime variable actually stores the maximum value.
The added comment was taken from place_entity function.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@gmail.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363115544-1964-1-git-send-email-epure.andrei@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-14 08:22:29 +01:00
Andrei Epure 660cc00f8c sched: Spelling fix
Signed-off-by: Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@gmail.com>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362996200-2674-1-git-send-email-epure.andrei@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-11 15:12:11 +01:00
Li Zefan 15f803c94b sched: Make default_scale_freq_power() static
As default_scale_{freq,smt}_power() and update_rt_power() are
used in kernel/sched/fair.c only, annotate them as static
functions.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A7AF.8010900@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-06 11:24:34 +01:00
Linus Torvalds d652e1eb8e Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes:

   - scheduler side full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed
     and receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
     cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready, from Frederic
     Weisbecker.

   - Initial sched.h split-up changes, by Clark Williams

   - select_idle_sibling() performance improvement by Mike Galbraith:

        " 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:

          pre   15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
          post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs "

  - sched_rr_get_interval() ABI fix/change.  We think this detail is not
    used by apps (so it's not an ABI in practice), but lets keep it
    under observation.

  - misc RT scheduling cleanups, optimizations"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  sched/rt: Add <linux/sched/rt.h> header to <linux/init_task.h>
  cputime: Remove irqsave from seqlock readers
  sched, powerpc: Fix sched.h split-up build failure
  cputime: Restore CPU_ACCOUNTING config defaults for PPC64
  sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file
  sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice
  sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header
  sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
  sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome
  sched/rt: Further simplify pick_rt_task()
  sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec in update_curr_rt()
  cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs
  kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks
  cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats
  cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting
  cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting
  cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file
  cputime: Librarize per nsecs resolution cputime definitions
  cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling
  context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime
  ...

Fix up conflict in kernel/context_tracking.c due to comment additions.
2013-02-19 18:19:48 -08:00
Mike Galbraith e0a79f529d sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome
If the previous CPU is cache affine and idle, select it.

The current implementation simply traverses the sd_llc domain,
taking the first idle CPU encountered, which walks buddy pairs
hand in hand over the package, inflicting excruciating pain.

1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:

  pre   15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
  post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359371965.5783.127.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-02-04 20:07:24 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann 38dc3348e3 sched: Fix warning in kernel/sched/fair.c
a4c96ae319 "sched: Unthrottle rt runqueues in
__disable_runtime()" turned the unthrottle_offline_cfs_rqs
function into a static symbol, which now triggers a warning
about it being potentially unused:

  kernel/sched/fair.c:2055:13: warning: 'unthrottle_offline_cfs_rqs' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]

Marking it __maybe_unused shuts up the gcc warning and lets the
compiler safely drop the function body when it's not being used.

To reproduce, build the ARM bcm2835_defconfig.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Boonstoppel <pboonstoppel@nvidia.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@list.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359123276-15833-6-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-01-25 15:23:14 +01:00
Viresh Kumar 16c8f1c72e sched/fair: Set se->vruntime directly in place_entity()
We are first storing the new vruntime in a variable and then
storing it in se->vruntime. Simply update se->vruntime directly.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org
Cc: patches@linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ae59db1945518d6f6250920d46eb1f1a9cc0024e.1352361704.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-01-24 18:06:11 +01:00
Zhu Yanhai a59f4e079d sched: Fix the broken sched_rr_get_interval()
The caller of sched_sliced() should pass se.cfs_rq and se as the
arguments, however in sched_rr_get_interval() we gave it
rq.cfs_rq and se, which made the following computation obviously
wrong.

The change was introduced by commit:

  77034937dc sched: fix crash in sys_sched_rr_get_interval()

... 5 years ago, while it had been the correct 'cfs_rq_of' before
the commit. The change seems to be irrelevant to the commit
msg, which was to return a 0 timeslice for tasks that are on an
idle runqueue. So I believe that was just a plain typo.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanhai <gaoyang.zyh@taobao.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1357621012-15039-1-git-send-email-gaoyang.zyh@taobao.com
[ Since this is an ABI and an old bug, we'll test this via a
  slow upstream route, to hopefully discover any app breakage. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-01-24 14:41:00 +01:00
Hugh Dickins 2832bc19f6 sched: numa: ksm: fix oops in task_numa_placment()
task_numa_placement() oopsed on NULL p->mm when task_numa_fault() got
called in the handling of break_ksm() for ksmd.  That might be a
peculiar case, which perhaps KSM could takes steps to avoid? but it's
more robust if task_numa_placement() allows for such a possibility.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-20 07:06:56 -08:00
Mel Gorman 221392c3ad sched: numa: Fix build error if CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING && !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Michal Hocko reported that the following build error occurs if
CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING is set without THP support

  kernel/sched/fair.c: In function ‘task_numa_work’:
  kernel/sched/fair.c:932:55: error: call to ‘__build_bug_failed’ declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed

The problem is that HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT triggers a BUILD_BUG() on
!CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE. This patch addresses the problem.

Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 08:25:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 3d59eebc5e Automatic NUMA Balancing V11
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Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma

Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman:
 "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree
  (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and
  autonuma which is in aa.git.

  In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because
  its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about
  scheduling.  In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be
  desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building
  scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9.

  The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are

    mel:    https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108
    mingo:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331
    tglx:   https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437
    srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397

  The results are a mixed bag.  In my own tests, balancenuma does
  reasonably well.  It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against
  mainline.  On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is
  incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad
  but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts.  Thomas'
  results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of
  numacore or autonuma.  Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a
  large machine with imbalanced node sizes.

  My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved
  dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally.
  We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of
  migration even when it shows that overall performance is better.
  There are also cases where it regresses.  Of interest is that for
  specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of
  warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by
  the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports.  Recently I
  reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with
  NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of
  this problem is.  Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch
  handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case.  It's possible
  numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration.

  These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start
  with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has
  not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks."

* tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits)
  mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
  mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
  mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting
  mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.
  mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
  mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
  mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships
  mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page
  mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page
  mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame
  sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
  mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
  mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes
  mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting
  mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault
  mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
  ...
2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 17bc14b767 Revert "sched: Update_cfs_shares at period edge"
This reverts commit f269ae0469.

It turns out it causes a very noticeable interactivity regression with
CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP (test-case: "make -j32" of the kernel in a
terminal window, while scrolling in a browser - the autogrouping means
that the two end up in separate cgroups, and the browser should be
smooth as silk despite the high load).

Says Paul Turner:
 "It seems that the update-throttling on the wake-side is reducing the
  interactive tasks' ability to preempt.  While I suspect the right
  longer term answer here is force these updates only in the
  cross-cgroup case; this is less trivial.  For this release I believe
  the right answer is either going to be a revert or restore the updates
  on the enqueue-side."

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bisected-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-14 07:20:43 -08:00
Mel Gorman 5bca230353 mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
Due to the fact that migrations are driven by the CPU a task is running
on there is no point tracking NUMA faults until one task runs on a new
node. This patch tracks the first node used by an address space. Until
it changes, PTE scanning is disabled and no NUMA hinting faults are
trapped. This should help workloads that are short-lived, do not care
about NUMA placement or have bound themselves to a single node.

This takes advantage of the logic in "mm: sched: numa: Implement slow
start for working set sampling" to delay when the checks are made. This
will take advantage of processes that set their CPU and node bindings
early in their lifetime. It will also potentially allow any initial load
balancing to take place.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
2012-12-11 14:42:56 +00:00
Mel Gorman 1a687c2e9a mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
This patch adds Kconfig options and kernel parameters to allow the
enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing. The existance
of such a switch was and is very important when debugging problems
related to transparent hugepages and we should have the same for
automatic NUMA placement.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
2012-12-11 14:42:55 +00:00
Mel Gorman b8593bfda1 mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
The PTE scanning rate and fault rates are two of the biggest sources of
system CPU overhead with automatic NUMA placement.  Ideally a proper policy
would detect if a workload was properly placed, schedule and adjust the
PTE scanning rate accordingly. We do not track the necessary information
to do that but we at least know if we migrated or not.

This patch scans slower if a page was not migrated as the result of a
NUMA hinting fault up to sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_max which is
now higher than the previous default. Once every minute it will reset
the scanner in case of phase changes.

This is hilariously crude and the numbers are arbitrary. Workloads will
converge quite slowly in comparison to what a proper policy should be able
to do. On the plus side, we will chew up less CPU for workloads that have
no need for automatic balancing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
2012-12-11 14:42:55 +00:00
Mel Gorman fb003b80da sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
Currently the rate of scanning for an address space is controlled
by the individual tasks. The next scan is simply determined by
2*p->numa_scan_period.

The 2*p->numa_scan_period is arbitrary and never changes. At this point
there is still no proper policy that decides if a task or process is
properly placed. It just scans and assumes the next NUMA fault will
place it properly. As it is assumed that pages will get properly placed
over time, increase the scan window each time a fault is incurred. This
is a big assumption as noted in the comments.

It should be noted that changing to p->numa_scan_period will increase
system CPU usage because now the scanning rate has effectively doubled.
If that is a problem then the min_rate should be made 200ms instead of
restoring the 2* logic.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
2012-12-11 14:42:51 +00:00
Mel Gorman e14808b49f mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
If there are a large number of NUMA hinting faults and all of them
are resulting in migrations it may indicate that memory is just
bouncing uselessly around. NUMA balancing cost is likely exceeding
any benefit from locality. Rate limit the PTE updates if the node
is migration rate-limited. As noted in the comments, this distorts
the NUMA faulting statistics.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
2012-12-11 14:42:51 +00:00
Peter Zijlstra 4b96a29ba8 mm: sched: numa: Implement slow start for working set sampling
Add a 1 second delay before starting to scan the working set of
a task and starting to balance it amongst nodes.

[ note that before the constant per task WSS sampling rate patch
  the initial scan would happen much later still, in effect that
  patch caused this regression. ]

The theory is that short-run tasks benefit very little from NUMA
placement: they come and go, and they better stick to the node
they were started on. As tasks mature and rebalance to other CPUs
and nodes, so does their NUMA placement have to change and so
does it start to matter more and more.

In practice this change fixes an observable kbuild regression:

   # [ a perf stat --null --repeat 10 test of ten bzImage builds to /dev/shm ]

   !NUMA:
   45.291088843 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.40% )
   45.154231752 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.36% )

   +NUMA, no slow start:
   46.172308123 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.30% )
   46.343168745 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.25% )

   +NUMA, 1 sec slow start:
   45.224189155 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.25% )
   45.160866532 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.17% )

and it also fixes an observable perf bench (hackbench) regression:

   # perf stat --null --repeat 10 perf bench sched messaging

   -NUMA:

   -NUMA:                  0.246225691 seconds time elapsed                   ( +-  1.31% )
   +NUMA no slow start:    0.252620063 seconds time elapsed                   ( +-  1.13% )

   +NUMA 1sec delay:       0.248076230 seconds time elapsed                   ( +-  1.35% )

The implementation is simple and straightforward, most of the patch
deals with adding the /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing_scan_delay_ms tunable
knob.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
[ Wrote the changelog, ran measurements, tuned the default. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
2012-12-11 14:42:47 +00:00
Mel Gorman 9f40604cda sched, numa, mm: Count WS scanning against present PTEs, not virtual memory ranges
By accounting against the present PTEs, scanning speed reflects the
actual present (mapped) memory.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.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>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
2012-12-11 14:42:46 +00:00
Peter Zijlstra 6e5fb223e8 mm: sched: numa: Implement constant, per task Working Set Sampling (WSS) rate
Previously, to probe the working set of a task, we'd use
a very simple and crude method: mark all of its address
space PROT_NONE.

That method has various (obvious) disadvantages:

 - it samples the working set at dissimilar rates,
   giving some tasks a sampling quality advantage
   over others.

 - creates performance problems for tasks with very
   large working sets

 - over-samples processes with large address spaces but
   which only very rarely execute

Improve that method by keeping a rotating offset into the
address space that marks the current position of the scan,
and advance it by a constant rate (in a CPU cycles execution
proportional manner). If the offset reaches the last mapped
address of the mm then it then it starts over at the first
address.

The per-task nature of the working set sampling functionality in this tree
allows such constant rate, per task, execution-weight proportional sampling
of the working set, with an adaptive sampling interval/frequency that
goes from once per 100ms up to just once per 8 seconds.  The current
sampling volume is 256 MB per interval.

As tasks mature and converge their working set, so does the
sampling rate slow down to just a trickle, 256 MB per 8
seconds of CPU time executed.

This, beyond being adaptive, also rate-limits rarely
executing systems and does not over-sample on overloaded
systems.

[ In AutoNUMA speak, this patch deals with the effective sampling
  rate of the 'hinting page fault'. AutoNUMA's scanning is
  currently rate-limited, but it is also fundamentally
  single-threaded, executing in the knuma_scand kernel thread,
  so the limit in AutoNUMA is global and does not scale up with
  the number of CPUs, nor does it scan tasks in an execution
  proportional manner.

  So the idea of rate-limiting the scanning was first implemented
  in the AutoNUMA tree via a global rate limit. This patch goes
  beyond that by implementing an execution rate proportional
  working set sampling rate that is not implemented via a single
  global scanning daemon. ]

[ Dan Carpenter pointed out a possible NULL pointer dereference in the
  first version of this patch. ]

Based-on-idea-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Bug-Found-By: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
[ Wrote changelog and fixed bug. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
2012-12-11 14:42:46 +00:00
Peter Zijlstra cbee9f88ec mm: numa: Add fault driven placement and migration
NOTE: This patch is based on "sched, numa, mm: Add fault driven
	placement and migration policy" but as it throws away all the policy
	to just leave a basic foundation I had to drop the signed-offs-by.

This patch creates a bare-bones method for setting PTEs pte_numa in the
context of the scheduler that when faulted later will be faulted onto the
node the CPU is running on.  In itself this does nothing useful but any
placement policy will fundamentally depend on receiving hints on placement
from fault context and doing something intelligent about it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
2012-12-11 14:42:45 +00:00
Ingo Molnar ec05a2311c Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge in fixes before we queue up dependent bits, to avoid conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-11-18 09:34:44 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra e9c84cb8d5 sched: Describe CFS load-balancer
Add some scribbles on how and why the load-balancer works..

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341316406.23484.64.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:33 +02:00
Paul Turner f4e26b120b sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking
While per-entity load-tracking is generally useful, beyond computing shares
distribution, e.g. runnable based load-balance (in progress), governors,
power-management, etc.

These facilities are not yet consumers of this data.  This may be trivially
reverted when the information is required; but avoid paying the overhead for
calculations we will not use until then.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141507.422162369@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:31 +02:00
Paul Turner 5b51f2f80b sched: Make __update_entity_runnable_avg() fast
__update_entity_runnable_avg forms the core of maintaining an entity's runnable
load average.  In this function we charge the accumulated run-time since last
update and handle appropriate decay.  In some cases, e.g. a waking task, this
time interval may be much larger than our period unit.

Fortunately we can exploit some properties of our series to perform decay for a
blocked update in constant time and account the contribution for a running
update in essentially-constant* time.

[*]: For any running entity they should be performing updates at the tick which
gives us a soft limit of 1 jiffy between updates, and we can compute up to a
32 jiffy update in a single pass.

C program to generate the magic constants in the arrays:

  #include <math.h>
  #include <stdio.h>

  #define N 32
  #define WMULT_SHIFT 32

  const long WMULT_CONST = ((1UL << N) - 1);
  double y;

  long runnable_avg_yN_inv[N];
  void calc_mult_inv() {
  	int i;
  	double yn = 0;

  	printf("inverses\n");
  	for (i = 0; i < N; i++) {
  		yn = (double)WMULT_CONST * pow(y, i);
  		runnable_avg_yN_inv[i] = yn;
  		printf("%2d: 0x%8lx\n", i, runnable_avg_yN_inv[i]);
  	}
  	printf("\n");
  }

  long mult_inv(long c, int n) {
  	return (c * runnable_avg_yN_inv[n]) >>  WMULT_SHIFT;
  }

  void calc_yn_sum(int n)
  {
  	int i;
  	double sum = 0, sum_fl = 0, diff = 0;

  	/*
  	 * We take the floored sum to ensure the sum of partial sums is never
  	 * larger than the actual sum.
  	 */
  	printf("sum y^n\n");
  	printf("   %8s  %8s %8s\n", "exact", "floor", "error");
  	for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
  		sum = (y * sum + y * 1024);
  		sum_fl = floor(y * sum_fl+ y * 1024);
  		printf("%2d: %8.0f  %8.0f %8.0f\n", i, sum, sum_fl,
  			sum_fl - sum);
  	}
  	printf("\n");
  }

  void calc_conv(long n) {
  	long old_n;
  	int i = -1;

  	printf("convergence (LOAD_AVG_MAX, LOAD_AVG_MAX_N)\n");
  	do {
  		old_n = n;
  		n = mult_inv(n, 1) + 1024;
  		i++;
  	} while (n != old_n);
  	printf("%d> %ld\n", i - 1, n);
  	printf("\n");
  }

  void main() {
  	y = pow(0.5, 1/(double)N);
  	calc_mult_inv();
  	calc_conv(1024);
  	calc_yn_sum(N);
  }

[ Compile with -lm ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141507.277808946@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:30 +02:00
Paul Turner f269ae0469 sched: Update_cfs_shares at period edge
Now that our measurement intervals are small (~1ms) we can amortize the posting
of update_shares() to be about each period overflow.  This is a large cost
saving for frequently switching tasks.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141507.200772172@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:29 +02:00
Paul Turner 48a1675323 sched: Refactor update_shares_cpu() -> update_blocked_avgs()
Now that running entities maintain their own load-averages the work we must do
in update_shares() is largely restricted to the periodic decay of blocked
entities.  This allows us to be a little less pessimistic regarding our
occupancy on rq->lock and the associated rq->clock updates required.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141507.133999170@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:28 +02:00
Paul Turner 82958366cf sched: Replace update_shares weight distribution with per-entity computation
Now that the machinery in place is in place to compute contributed load in a
bottom up fashion; replace the shares distribution code within update_shares()
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141507.061208672@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:28 +02:00
Paul Turner f1b17280ef sched: Maintain runnable averages across throttled periods
With bandwidth control tracked entities may cease execution according to user
specified bandwidth limits.  Charging this time as either throttled or blocked
however, is incorrect and would falsely skew in either direction.

What we actually want is for any throttled periods to be "invisible" to
load-tracking as they are removed from the system for that interval and
contribute normally otherwise.

Do this by moderating the progression of time to omit any periods in which the
entity belonged to a throttled hierarchy.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.998912151@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:27 +02:00
Paul Turner bb17f65571 sched: Normalize tg load contributions against runnable time
Entities of equal weight should receive equitable distribution of cpu time.
This is challenging in the case of a task_group's shares as execution may be
occurring on multiple cpus simultaneously.

To handle this we divide up the shares into weights proportionate with the load
on each cfs_rq.  This does not however, account for the fact that the sum of
the parts may be less than one cpu and so we need to normalize:
  load(tg) = min(runnable_avg(tg), 1) * tg->shares
Where runnable_avg is the aggregate time in which the task_group had runnable
children.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.930124292@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:26 +02:00
Paul Turner 8165e145ce sched: Compute load contribution by a group entity
Unlike task entities who have a fixed weight, group entities instead own a
fraction of their parenting task_group's shares as their contributed weight.

Compute this fraction so that we can correctly account hierarchies and shared
entity nodes.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.855074415@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:25 +02:00
Paul Turner c566e8e9e4 sched: Aggregate total task_group load
Maintain a global running sum of the average load seen on each cfs_rq belonging
to each task group so that it may be used in calculating an appropriate
shares:weight distribution.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.792901086@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:24 +02:00
Paul Turner aff3e49884 sched: Account for blocked load waking back up
When a running entity blocks we migrate its tracked load to
cfs_rq->blocked_runnable_avg.  In the sleep case this occurs while holding
rq->lock and so is a natural transition.  Wake-ups however, are potentially
asynchronous in the presence of migration and so special care must be taken.

We use an atomic counter to track such migrated load, taking care to match this
with the previously introduced decay counters so that we don't migrate too much
load.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.726077467@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:23 +02:00
Paul Turner 0a74bef8be sched: Add an rq migration call-back to sched_class
Since we are now doing bottom up load accumulation we need explicit
notification when a task has been re-parented so that the old hierarchy can be
updated.

Adds: migrate_task_rq(struct task_struct *p, int next_cpu)

(The alternative is to do this out of __set_task_cpu, but it was suggested that
this would be a cleaner encapsulation.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.660023400@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:23 +02:00
Paul Turner 9ee474f556 sched: Maintain the load contribution of blocked entities
We are currently maintaining:

  runnable_load(cfs_rq) = \Sum task_load(t)

For all running children t of cfs_rq.  While this can be naturally updated for
tasks in a runnable state (as they are scheduled); this does not account for
the load contributed by blocked task entities.

This can be solved by introducing a separate accounting for blocked load:

  blocked_load(cfs_rq) = \Sum runnable(b) * weight(b)

Obviously we do not want to iterate over all blocked entities to account for
their decay, we instead observe that:

  runnable_load(t) = \Sum p_i*y^i

and that to account for an additional idle period we only need to compute:

  y*runnable_load(t).

This means that we can compute all blocked entities at once by evaluating:

  blocked_load(cfs_rq)` = y * blocked_load(cfs_rq)

Finally we maintain a decay counter so that when a sleeping entity re-awakens
we can determine how much of its load should be removed from the blocked sum.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.585389902@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:22 +02:00
Paul Turner 2dac754e10 sched: Aggregate load contributed by task entities on parenting cfs_rq
For a given task t, we can compute its contribution to load as:

  task_load(t) = runnable_avg(t) * weight(t)

On a parenting cfs_rq we can then aggregate:

  runnable_load(cfs_rq) = \Sum task_load(t), for all runnable children t

Maintain this bottom up, with task entities adding their contributed load to
the parenting cfs_rq sum.  When a task entity's load changes we add the same
delta to the maintained sum.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.514678907@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:21 +02:00
Ben Segall 18bf2805d9 sched: Maintain per-rq runnable averages
Since runqueues do not have a corresponding sched_entity we instead embed a
sched_avg structure directly.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.442637130@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:20 +02:00
Paul Turner 9d85f21c94 sched: Track the runnable average on a per-task entity basis
Instead of tracking averaging the load parented by a cfs_rq, we can track
entity load directly. With the load for a given cfs_rq then being the sum
of its children.

To do this we represent the historical contribution to runnable average
within each trailing 1024us of execution as the coefficients of a
geometric series.

We can express this for a given task t as:

  runnable_sum(t) = \Sum u_i * y^i, runnable_avg_period(t) = \Sum 1024 * y^i
  load(t) = weight_t * runnable_sum(t) / runnable_avg_period(t)

Where: u_i is the usage in the last i`th 1024us period (approximately 1ms)
~ms and y is chosen such that y^k = 1/2.  We currently choose k to be 32 which
roughly translates to about a sched period.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.372695337@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 8ed92e51f9 sched: Add WAKEUP_PREEMPTION feature flag, on by default
As per the recent discussion with Mike and Linus, make it easier to
test with/without this feature. No change in default behavior.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-izoxq4haeg4mTognnDbwcevt@git.kernel.org
2012-10-16 10:05:27 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 0b981cb94b Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Continued quest to clean up and enhance the cputime code by Frederic
  Weisbecker, in preparation for future tickless kernel features.

  Other than that, smallish changes."

Fix up trivial conflicts due to additions next to each other in arch/{x86/}Kconfig

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  cputime: Make finegrained irqtime accounting generally available
  cputime: Gather time/stats accounting config options into a single menu
  ia64: Reuse system and user vtime accounting functions on task switch
  ia64: Consolidate user vtime accounting
  vtime: Consolidate system/idle context detection
  cputime: Use a proper subsystem naming for vtime related APIs
  sched: cpu_power: enable ARCH_POWER
  sched/nohz: Clean up select_nohz_load_balancer()
  sched: Fix load avg vs. cpu-hotplug
  sched: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
  sched: Fix nohz_idle_balance()
  sched: Remove useless code in yield_to()
  sched: Add time unit suffix to sched sysctl knobs
  sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on sysctl
  sched: Remove AFFINE_WAKEUPS feature flag
  s390: Remove leftover account_tick_vtime() header
  cputime: Consolidate vtime handling on context switch
  sched: Move cputime code to its own file
  cputime: Generalize CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
  tile: Remove SD_PREFER_LOCAL leftover
  ...
2012-10-01 10:43:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 37407ea7f9 Revert "sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random perturbations"
This reverts commit 970e178985.

Nikolay Ulyanitsky reported thatthe 3.6-rc5 kernel has a 15-20%
performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 on his machine (running "pgbench").

Borislav Petkov was able to reproduce this, and bisected it to this
commit 970e178985 ("sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies' ...")
apparently because the new single-idle-buddy model simply doesn't find
idle CPU's to reschedule on aggressively enough.

Mike Galbraith suspects that it is likely due to the user-mode spinlocks
in PostgreSQL not reacting well to preemption, but we don't really know
the details - I'll just revert the commit for now.

There are hopefully other approaches to improve scheduler scalability
without it causing these kinds of downsides.

Reported-by: Nikolay Ulyanitsky <lystor@gmail.com>
Bisected-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-16 12:29:43 -07:00
Alex Shi c1cc017c59 sched/nohz: Clean up select_nohz_load_balancer()
There is no load_balancer to be selected now. It just sets the
state of the nohz tick to stop.

So rename the function, pass the 'cpu' as a parameter and then
remove the useless call from tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick().

[ s/set_nohz_tick_stopped/nohz_balance_enter_idle/g
  s/clear_nohz_tick_stopped/nohz_balance_exit_idle/g ]
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347261059-24747-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-13 16:52:05 +02:00
Vincent Guittot 5ed4f1d96d sched: Fix nohz_idle_balance()
On tickless systems, one CPU runs load balance for all idle CPUs.

The cpu_load of this CPU is updated before starting the load balance
of each other idle CPUs. We should instead update the cpu_load of
the balance_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347509486-8688-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-13 16:52:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 59f979455d Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge in the current fixes branch, we are going to apply dependent patches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-04 14:31:00 +02:00
Randy Dunlap 9450d57eab sched: Fix kernel-doc warnings in kernel/sched/fair.c
Fix two kernel-doc warnings in kernel/sched/fair.c:

  Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3660): Excess function parameter 'cpus' description in 'update_sg_lb_stats'
  Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3806): Excess function parameter 'cpus' description in 'update_sd_lb_stats'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50303714.3090204@xenotime.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-04 14:30:49 +02:00
Peter Boonstoppel a4c96ae319 sched: Unthrottle rt runqueues in __disable_runtime()
migrate_tasks() uses _pick_next_task_rt() to get tasks from the
real-time runqueues to be migrated. When rt_rq is throttled
_pick_next_task_rt() won't return anything, in which case
migrate_tasks() can't move all threads over and gets stuck in an
infinite loop.

Instead unthrottle rt runqueues before migrating tasks.

Additionally: move unthrottle_offline_cfs_rqs() to rq_offline_fair()

Signed-off-by: Peter Boonstoppel <pboonstoppel@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5FBF8E85CA34454794F0F7ECBA79798F379D3648B7@HQMAIL04.nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-04 14:30:30 +02:00
Alex Shi f03542a701 sched: recover SD_WAKE_AFFINE in select_task_rq_fair and code clean up
Since power saving code was removed from sched now, the implement
code is out of service in this function, and even pollute other logical.
like, 'want_sd' never has chance to be set '0', that remove the effect
of SD_WAKE_AFFINE here.

So, clean up the obsolete code, includes SD_PREFER_LOCAL.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5028F431.6000306@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 19:02:05 +02:00
Michael Wang 78feefc512 sched: using dst_rq instead of this_rq during load balance
As we already have dst_rq in lb_env, using or changing "this_rq" do not
make sense.

This patch will replace "this_rq" with dst_rq in load_balance, and we
don't need to change "this_rq" while process LBF_SOME_PINNED any more.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/501F8357.3070102@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 18:58:15 +02:00
Borislav Petkov 532b1858c5 sched: Fix __sched_period comment
It should be sched_nr_latency so fix it before it annoys me more.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344435364-18632-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 18:58:15 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra a35b6466aa sched, cgroup: Reduce rq->lock hold times for large cgroup hierarchies
Peter Portante reported that for large cgroup hierarchies (and or on
large CPU counts) we get immense lock contention on rq->lock and stuff
stops working properly.

His workload was a ton of processes, each in their own cgroup,
everybody idling except for a sporadic wakeup once every so often.

It was found that:

  schedule()
    idle_balance()
      load_balance()
        local_irq_save()
        double_rq_lock()
        update_h_load()
          walk_tg_tree(tg_load_down)
            tg_load_down()

Results in an entire cgroup hierarchy walk under rq->lock for every
new-idle balance and since new-idle balance isn't throttled this
results in a lot of work while holding the rq->lock.

This patch does two things, it removes the work from under rq->lock
based on the good principle of race and pray which is widely employed
in the load-balancer as a whole. And secondly it throttles the
update_h_load() calculation to max once per jiffy.

I considered excluding update_h_load() for new-idle balance
all-together, but purely relying on regular balance passes to update
this data might not work out under some rare circumstances where the
new-idle busiest isn't the regular busiest for a while (unlikely, but
a nightmare to debug if someone hits it and suffers).

Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Peter Portante <pportant@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-aaarrzfpnaam7pqrekofu8a6@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 18:41:54 +02:00
Michael Wang b9403130a5 sched/cleanups: Add load balance cpumask pointer to 'struct lb_env'
With this patch struct ld_env will have a pointer of the load balancing
cpumask and we don't need to pass a cpumask around anymore.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FFE8665.3080705@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-31 17:00:16 +02:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri 88b8dac0a1 sched: Improve balance_cpu() to consider other cpus in its group as target of (pinned) task
Current load balance scheme requires only one cpu in a
sched_group (balance_cpu) to look at other peer sched_groups for
imbalance and pull tasks towards itself from a busy cpu. Tasks
thus pulled by balance_cpu could later get picked up by cpus
that are in the same sched_group as that of balance_cpu.

This scheme however fails to pull tasks that are not allowed to
run on balance_cpu (but are allowed to run on other cpus in its
sched_group). That can affect fairness and in some worst case
scenarios cause starvation.

Consider a two core (2 threads/core) system running tasks as
below:

          Core0            Core1
         /     \          /     \
	C0     C1	 C2     C3
        |      |         |      |
        v      v         v      v
	F0     T1        F1     [idle]
			 T2

 F0 = SCHED_FIFO task (pinned to C0)
 F1 = SCHED_FIFO task (pinned to C2)
 T1 = SCHED_OTHER task (pinned to C1)
 T2 = SCHED_OTHER task (pinned to C1 and C2)

F1 could become a cpu hog, which will starve T2 unless C1 pulls
it. Between C0 and C1 however, C0 is required to look for
imbalance between cores, which will fail to pull T2 towards
Core0. T2 will starve eternally in this case. The same scenario
can arise in presence of non-rt tasks as well (say we replace F1
with high irq load).

We tackle this problem by having balance_cpu move pinned tasks
to one of its sibling cpus (where they can run). We first check
if load balance goal can be met by ignoring pinned tasks,
failing which we retry move_tasks() with a new env->dst_cpu.

This patch modifies load balance semantics on who can move load
towards a given cpu in a given sched_domain.

Before this patch, a given_cpu or a ilb_cpu acting on behalf of
an idle given_cpu is responsible for moving load to given_cpu.

With this patch applied, balance_cpu can in addition decide on
moving some load to a given_cpu.

There is a remote possibility that excess load could get moved
as a result of this (balance_cpu and given_cpu/ilb_cpu deciding
*independently* and at *same* time to move some load to a
given_cpu). However we should see less of such conflicting
decisions in practice and moreover subsequent load balance
cycles should correct the excess load moved to given_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE06CDB.2060605@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24 13:58:06 +02:00
Prashanth Nageshappa bbf18b1949 sched: Reset loop counters if all tasks are pinned and we need to redo load balance
While load balancing, if all tasks on the source runqueue are pinned,
we retry after excluding the corresponding source cpu. However, loop counters
env.loop and env.loop_break are not reset before retrying, which can lead
to failure in moving the tasks. In this patch we reset env.loop and
env.loop_break to their inital values before we retry.

Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE06EEF.2090709@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24 13:55:37 +02:00
Prashanth Nageshappa 85c1e7dae1 sched: Reorder 'struct lb_env' members to reduce its size
Members of 'struct lb_env' are not in appropriate order to reuse compiler
added padding on 64bit architectures. In this patch we reorder those struct
members and help reduce the size of the structure from 96 bytes to 80
bytes on 64 bit architectures.

Suggested-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE06DDE.7000403@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24 13:55:20 +02:00