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Gregory Haskins a8728944ef sched: use highest_prio.curr for pull threshold
highest_prio.curr is actually a more accurate way to keep track of
the pull_rt_task() threshold since it is always up to date, even
if the "next" task migrates during double_lock.  Therefore, stop
looking at the "next" task object and simply use the highest_prio.curr.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
2008-12-29 09:39:49 -05:00
Gregory Haskins e864c499d9 sched: track the next-highest priority on each runqueue
We will use this later in the series to reduce the amount of rq-lock
contention during a pull operation

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
2008-12-29 09:39:49 -05:00
Gregory Haskins 4d9842776a sched: cleanup inc/dec_rt_tasks
Move some common definitions up to the function prologe to simplify the
body logic.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
2008-12-29 09:39:49 -05:00
Ingo Molnar 4e202284e6 Merge branch 'sched/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.28' into sched/core 2008-12-25 13:42:23 +01:00
Bharata B Rao 80f40ee4a0 sched: use RCU variant of list traversal in for_each_leaf_rt_rq()
Impact: fix potential of rare crash

for_each_leaf_rt_rq() walks an RCU protected list (rq->leaf_rt_rq_list),
but doesn't use list_for_each_entry_rcu(). Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 21:39:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 45ab6b0c76 Merge branch 'sched/core' into cpus4096
Conflicts:
	include/linux/ftrace.h
	kernel/sched.c
2008-12-12 13:48:57 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan 70574a996f sched: move double_unlock_balance() higher
Move double_lock_balance()/double_unlock_balance() higher to fix the following
with gcc-3.4.6:

   CC      kernel/sched.o
 In file included from kernel/sched.c:1605:
 kernel/sched_rt.c: In function `find_lock_lowest_rq':
 kernel/sched_rt.c:914: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'double_unlock_balance': function body not available
 kernel/sched_rt.c:1077: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
 make[2]: *** [kernel/sched.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 20:11:15 +01:00
Rusty Russell 3d8cbdf865 sched: convert local_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t, fix
Impact: build fix for !CONFIG_SMP

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 07:58:28 +01:00
Rusty Russell 96f874e264 sched: convert remaining old-style cpumask operators
Impact: Trivial API conversion

  NR_CPUS -> nr_cpu_ids
  cpumask_t -> struct cpumask
  sizeof(cpumask_t) -> cpumask_size()
  cpumask_a = cpumask_b -> cpumask_copy(&cpumask_a, &cpumask_b)

  cpu_set() -> cpumask_set_cpu()
  first_cpu() -> cpumask_first()
  cpumask_of_cpu() -> cpumask_of()
  cpus_* -> cpumask_*

There are some FIXMEs where we all archs to complete infrastructure
(patches have been sent):

  cpu_coregroup_map -> cpu_coregroup_mask
  node_to_cpumask* -> cpumask_of_node

There is also one FIXME where we pass an array of cpumasks to
partition_sched_domains(): this implies knowing the definition of
'struct cpumask' and the size of a cpumask.  This will be fixed in a
future patch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:42 +01:00
Rusty Russell 0e3900e6d3 sched: convert local_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:35 +01:00
Rusty Russell 24600ce89a sched: convert check_preempt_equal_prio to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack reduction for large NR_CPUS

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
stack space.

We simply return if the allocation fails: since we don't use it we
could just pass NULL to cpupri_find and have it handle that.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:28 +01:00
Rusty Russell c6c4927b22 sched: convert struct root_domain to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

def_root_domain is static, and so its masks are initialized with
alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var.  After that, alloc_cpumask_var is used.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:18 +01:00
Rusty Russell 758b2cdc6f sched: wrap sched_group and sched_domain cpumask accesses.
Impact: trivial wrap of member accesses

This eases the transition in the next patch.

We also get rid of a temporary cpumask in find_idlest_cpu() thanks to
for_each_cpu_and, and sched_balance_self() due to getting weight before
setting sd to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:50:45 +01:00
Sripathi Kodi cf7f8690e8 sched, lockdep: inline double_unlock_balance()
We have a test case which measures the variation in the amount of time
needed to perform a fixed amount of work on the preempt_rt kernel. We
started seeing deterioration in it's performance recently. The test
should never take more than 10 microseconds, but we started 5-10%
failure rate.

Using elimination method, we traced the problem to commit
1b12bbc747 (lockdep: re-annotate
scheduler runqueues).

When LOCKDEP is disabled, this patch only adds an additional function
call to double_unlock_balance(). Hence I inlined double_unlock_balance()
and the problem went away. Here is a patch to make this change.

Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 22:12:09 +01:00
Dimitri Sivanich e113a745f6 sched/rt: small optimization to update_curr_rt()
Impact: micro-optimization to SCHED_FIFO/RR scheduling

A very minor improvement, but might it be better to check sched_rt_runtime(rt_rq)
before taking the rt_runtime_lock?

Peter Zijlstra observes:

> Yes, I think its ok to do so.
>
> Like pointed out in the other thread, there are two races:
>
>  - sched_rt_runtime() going to RUNTIME_INF, and that will be handled
>    properly by sched_rt_runtime_exceeded()
>
>  - sched_rt_runtime() going to !RUNTIME_INF, and here we can miss an
>    accounting cycle, but I don't think that is something to worry too
>    much about.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

--

 kernel/sched_rt.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
2008-11-03 11:29:00 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 8c82a17e9c Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc1' into sched/urgent 2008-10-24 12:48:46 +02:00
Li Zefan 4ce72a2c06 sched: add CONFIG_SMP consistency
a patch from Henrik Austad did this:

>> Do not declare select_task_rq as part of sched_class when CONFIG_SMP is
>> not set.

Peter observed:

> While a proper cleanup, could you do it by re-arranging the methods so
> as to not create an additional ifdef?

Do not declare select_task_rq and some other methods as part of sched_class
when CONFIG_SMP is not set.

Also gather those methods to avoid CONFIG_SMP mess.

Idea-by: Henrik Austad <henrik.austad@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-22 10:01:52 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner c465a76af6 Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/debug' into v28-timers-for-linus 2008-10-20 13:14:06 +02:00
Dario Faggioli f6121f4f87 sched_rt.c: resch needed in rt_rq_enqueue() for the root rt_rq
While working on the new version of the code for SCHED_SPORADIC I
noticed something strange in the present throttling mechanism. More
specifically in the throttling timer handler in sched_rt.c
(do_sched_rt_period_timer()) and in rt_rq_enqueue().

The problem is that, when unthrottling a runqueue, rt_rq_enqueue() only
asks for rescheduling if the runqueue has a sched_entity associated to
it (i.e., rt_rq->rt_se != NULL).
Now, if the runqueue is the root rq (which has a rt_se = NULL)
rescheduling does not take place, and it is delayed to some undefined
instant in the future.

This imply some random bandwidth usage by the RT tasks under throttling.
For instance, setting rt_runtime_us/rt_period_us = 950ms/1000ms an RT
task will get less than 95%. In our tests we got something varying
between 70% to 95%.
Using smaller time values, e.g., 95ms/100ms, things are even worse, and
I can see values also going down to 20-25%!!

The tests we performed are simply running 'yes' as a SCHED_FIFO task,
and checking the CPU usage with top, but we can investigate thoroughly
if you think it is needed.

Things go much better, for us, with the attached patch... Don't know if
it is the best approach, but it solved the issue for us.

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchimichael@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-04 14:31:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 78333cdd0e sched: add some comments to the bandwidth code
Hopefully clarify some of this code a little.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:16 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 63e5c39859 Merge branches 'sched/urgent' and 'sched/rt' into sched/devel 2008-09-23 16:23:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 15afe09bf4 sched: wakeup preempt when small overlap
Lin Ming reported a 10% OLTP regression against 2.6.27-rc4.

The difference seems to come from different preemption agressiveness,
which affects the cache footprint of the workload and its effective
cache trashing.

Aggresively preempt a task if its avg overlap is very small, this should
avoid the task going to sleep and find it still running when we schedule
back to it - saving a wakeup.

Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 16:28:32 +02:00
Frank Mayhar f06febc96b timers: fix itimer/many thread hang
Overview

This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the
ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling.  It was put together
with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code.

The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using
a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads.  It appears
that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was
at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse.
Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken
for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at
which point things degrade rather quickly.

This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF."

Code Changes

This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it
run in constant time for a particular machine.  (Performance may vary between
one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single-
or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of
running processors.)  To do this, at each tick we now update fields in
signal_struct as well as task_struct.  The run_posix_cpu_timers() function
uses those fields to make its decisions.

We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and
scheduler times and use these in appropriate places:

struct task_cputime {
	cputime_t utime;
	cputime_t stime;
	unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime;
};

This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new
substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus
multiprocessor kernels.  For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as
a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer:

struct thread_group_cputime {
	struct task_cputime totals;
};

struct thread_group_cputime {
	struct task_cputime *totals;
};

We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to
cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also
replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration
of thread timers).  The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide
timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends.  In the non-SMP
case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that
simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in
one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than
the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention).  For SMP, the
thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated
using alloc_percpu().  The timer functions update only the timer field in
the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr().

We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the
thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP
implementations from the rest of the kernel.  The thread_group_cputime_init()
function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task.
The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the
out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill
in the per-cpu structures and fields.  The thread_group_cputime_free()
function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures.  The
thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls
thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been
allocated.  The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime
structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields;
in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal
is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and,
if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU.  Finally, the three
functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and
account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the
respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure.

Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further.

The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new
thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal().
It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from
cleanup_signal().

All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from
from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to
snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in
the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated.

Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit.
The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a
slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread
timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting.
With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and
the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away.  All
summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the
thread_group_cputime() inline.  When process-wide timers are set, the new
task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest
expiration; this is checked in the fast path.

Performance

The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations.  It
generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in
which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs
very significantly better (Case 2 below).  Overall it's a wash except in those
two cases.

I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system.

Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed
	kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system,
	all of which was spent in the system.  There were twice as many
	voluntary context switches with the fix as without it.

Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most
	an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in
	eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and
	had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023
	seconds per tick).

Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an
	interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had
	very nearly the same performance in both cases:  6.3 seconds elapsed
	for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel.

With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially
the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus
5.8 seconds).  The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds
versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per
tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel.

Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits.

Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer
	running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while
	it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of
	wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was
	user time.  The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds
	of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system
	time.  Really, though, the results were too close to call.  The results
	were essentially the same with no itimer running.

Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds
	(where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running,
	the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified
	kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick.  Otherwise,
	performance was almost indistinguishable.  With no itimer running this
	test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases.

In times past I did some limited performance testing.  those results are below.

On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed
in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s.  On
the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but
system time dropped to 0.007 seconds.  Performance with eight, four and one
thread were comparable.  Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed
more accurate:  The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks
for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720
for 0.061 seconds per tick.  Both cases were configured for an interval of
0.01 seconds.  Again, the other tests were comparable.  Each thread in this
test computed the primes up to 25,000,000.

I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is
impossible without the fix.  In this case each thread computed the primes only
up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable).  System time dominated, at
1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of
629.938s).  It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite
accurate.  There is obviously no comparable test without the fix.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 16:25:35 +02:00
Zhang, Yanmin baf25731e5 sched: fix 2.6.27-rc5 couldn't boot on tulsa machine randomly
On my tulsa x86-64 machine, kernel 2.6.25-rc5 couldn't boot randomly.

Basically, function __enable_runtime forgets to reset rt_rq->rt_throttled
to 0. When every cpu is up, per-cpu migration_thread is created and it runs
very fast, sometimes to mark the corresponding rt_rq->rt_throttled to 1 very
quickly. After all cpus are up, with below calling chain:

   sched_init_smp => arch_init_sched_domains => build_sched_domains => ...
=> cpu_attach_domain => rq_attach_root => set_rq_online => ...
=> _enable_runtime

_enable_runtime is called against every rt_rq again, so rt_rq->rt_time is
reset to 0, but rt_rq->rt_throttled might be still 1. Later on function
do_sched_rt_period_timer couldn't reset it, and all RT tasks couldn't be
scheduled to run on that cpu. here is RT task migration_thread which is
woken up when a task is migrated to another cpu.

Below patch fixes it against 2.6.27-rc5.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-11 09:34:28 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra cc2991cf15 sched: rt-bandwidth accounting fix
It fixes an accounting bug where we would continue accumulating runtime
even though the bandwidth control is disabled. This would lead to very long
throttle periods once bandwidth control gets turned on again.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 13:42:38 +02:00
John Blackwood f3ade83780 sched: fix sched_rt_rq_enqueue() resched idle
When sysctl_sched_rt_runtime is set to something other than -1 and the
CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED kernel parameter is NOT enabled, we get into a state
where we see one or more CPUs idling forvever even though there are
real-time
tasks in their rt runqueue that are able to run (no longer throttled).

The sequence is:

- A real-time task is running when the timer sets the rt runqueue
    to throttled, and the rt task is resched_task()ed and switched
    out, and idle is switched in since there are no non-rt tasks to
    run on that cpu.

- Eventually the do_sched_rt_period_timer() runs and un-throttles
    the rt runqueue, but we just exit the timer interrupt and go back
    to executing the idle task in the idle loop forever.

If we change the sched_rt_rq_enqueue() routine to use some of the code
from the CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED enabled version of this same routine and
resched_task() the currently executing task (idle in our case) if it is
a lower priority task than the higher rt task in the now un-throttled
runqueue, the problem is no longer observed.

Signed-off-by: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 11:13:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 0b148fa048 sched: rt-bandwidth group disable fixes
More extensive disable of bandwidth control. It allows sysctl_sched_rt_runtime
to disable full group bandwidth control.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-19 13:10:10 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 6f0d5c390e sched: rt-bandwidth accounting fix
It fixes an accounting bug where we would continue accumulating runtime
even though the bandwidth control is disabled. This would lead to very long
throttle periods once bandwidth control gets turned on again.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-19 13:10:09 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f1679d0848 sched: fix rt-bandwidth hotplug race
When we hot-unplug a cpu and rebuild the sched-domain, all cpus will be
detatched. Alex observed the case where a runqueue was stealing bandwidth
from an already disabled runqueue to satisfy its own needs.

Stop this by skipping over already disabled runqueues.

Reported-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-14 15:50:58 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 1b12bbc747 lockdep: re-annotate scheduler runqueues
Instead of using a per-rq lock class, use the regular nesting operations.

However, take extra care with double_lock_balance() as it can release the
already held rq->lock (and therefore change its nesting class).

So what can happen is:

 spin_lock(rq->lock);	// this rq subclass 0

 double_lock_balance(rq, other_rq);
   // release rq
   // acquire other_rq->lock subclass 0
   // acquire rq->lock subclass 1

 spin_unlock(other_rq->lock);

leaving you with rq->lock in subclass 1

So a subsequent double_lock_balance() call can try to nest a subclass 1
lock while already holding a subclass 1 lock.

Fix this by introducing double_unlock_balance() which releases the other
rq's lock, but also re-sets the subclass for this rq's lock to 0.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 09:30:22 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 8ffa5b6596 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: clean up compiler warning
  sched: fix hrtick & generic-ipi dependency
2008-07-24 12:53:51 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 58838cf3ca sched: clean up compiler warning
Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-24 13:24:57 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 7f9dce3837 Merge branch 'sched/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: hrtick_enabled() should use cpu_active()
  sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation
  sched: fix build error, provide partition_sched_domains() unconditionally
  sched: fix warning in inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed
  cpu hotplug: Make cpu_active_map synchronization dependency clear
  cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2)
  sched: rework of "prioritize non-migratable tasks over migratable ones"
  sched: reduce stack size in isolated_cpu_setup()
  Revert parts of "ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions"

Fixed up conflicts in include/asm-x86/thread_info.h (due to the
TIF_SINGLESTEP unification vs TIF_HRTICK_RESCHED removal) and
kernel/sched_fair.c (due to cpu_active_map vs for_each_cpu_mask_nr()
introduction).
2008-07-23 19:36:53 -07:00
Ingo Molnar d986434a7d Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/devel 2008-07-20 11:01:29 +02:00
David Howells 577b4a58d2 sched: fix warning in inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed
Fix inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed.  It is
declared if CONFIG_SMP or CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED, but only used if CONFIG_SMP.

This is a consequence of patch 1f11eb6a8b plus
patch 1100ac91b6.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 13:56:03 +02:00
Max Krasnyansky e761b77252 cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2)
This is based on Linus' idea of creating cpu_active_map that prevents
scheduler load balancer from migrating tasks to the cpu that is going
down.

It allows us to simplify domain management code and avoid unecessary
domain rebuilds during cpu hotplug event handling.

Please ignore the cpusets part for now. It needs some more work in order
to avoid crazy lock nesting. Although I did simplfy and unify domain
reinitialization logic. We now simply call partition_sched_domains() in
all the cases. This means that we're using exact same code paths as in
cpusets case and hence the test below cover cpusets too.
Cpuset changes to make rebuild_sched_domains() callable from various
contexts are in the separate patch (right next after this one).

This not only boots but also easily handles
	while true; do make clean; make -j 8; done
and
	while true; do on-off-cpu 1; done
at the same time.
(on-off-cpu 1 simple does echo 0/1 > /sys/.../cpu1/online thing).

Suprisingly the box (dual-core Core2) is quite usable. In fact I'm typing
this on right now in gnome-terminal and things are moving just fine.

Also this is running with most of the debug features enabled (lockdep,
mutex, etc) no BUG_ONs or lockdep complaints so far.

I believe I addressed all of the Dmitry's comments for original Linus'
version. I changed both fair and rt balancer to mask out non-active cpus.
And replaced cpu_is_offline() with !cpu_active() in the main scheduler
code where it made sense (to me).

Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com
Cc: pj@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 13:22:25 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko 7ebefa8cee sched: rework of "prioritize non-migratable tasks over migratable ones"
(1) handle in a generic way all cases when a newly woken-up task is
not migratable (not just a corner case when "rt_se->nr_cpus_allowed ==
1")

(2) if current is to be preempted, then make sure "p" will be picked
up by pick_next_task_rt().
i.e. move task's group at the head of its list as well.

currently, it's not a case for the group-scheduling case as described
here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0807.0/0134.html

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 12:55:14 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 82638844d9 Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/xen/smp.c
	kernel/sched_rt.c
	net/iucv/iucv.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-16 00:29:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 68083e05d7 Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into cpus4096 2008-07-06 14:23:39 +02:00
Dhaval Giani 55e12e5e7b sched: make sched_{rt,fair}.c ifdefs more readable
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:32:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c09595f63b sched: revert revert of: fair-group: SMP-nice for group scheduling
Try again..

Initial commit: 18d95a2832
Revert: 6363ca57c7

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:29 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra bf647b62fd sched: clean up some unused variables
In file included from /mnt/build/linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c:1496:
/mnt/build/linux-2.6/kernel/sched_rt.c: In function '__enable_runtime':
/mnt/build/linux-2.6/kernel/sched_rt.c:339: warning: unused variable 'rd'
/mnt/build/linux-2.6/kernel/sched_rt.c: In function 'requeue_rt_entity':
/mnt/build/linux-2.6/kernel/sched_rt.c:692: warning: unused variable 'queue'

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:26 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8a8cde163e sched: rt: dont stop the period timer when there are tasks wanting to run
So if the group ever gets throttled, it will never wake up again.

Reported-by: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Daniel K. <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 11:00:19 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 6c3df25511 sched: rt: dont stop the period timer when there are tasks wanting to run
So if the group ever gets throttled, it will never wake up again.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
2008-06-20 10:26:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra eff6549b95 sched: rt: move some code around
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 10:26:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b79f3833d8 sched: rt: fix SMP bandwidth balancing for throttled groups
Now we exceed the runtime and get throttled - the period rollover tick
will subtract the cpu quota from the runtime and check if we're below
quota. However with this cpu having a very small portion of the runtime
it will not refresh as fast as it should.

Therefore, also rebalance the runtime when we're throttled.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 10:26:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ada18de2eb sched: debug: add some rt debug output
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 10:25:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1cdad71537 Merge branch 'sched' into sched-devel
Conflicts:

	kernel/sched_rt.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19 09:09:15 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 15a8641ead sched: rt-group: fix RR buglet
In tick_task_rt() we first call update_curr_rt() which can dequeue a runqueue
due to it running out of runtime, and then we try to requeue it, of it also
having exhausted its RR quota. Obviously requeueing something that is no longer
on the runqueue will not have the expected result.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Daniel K. <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19 09:06:59 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ad2a3f13b7 sched: rt-group: heirarchy aware throttle
The bandwidth throttle code dequeues a group when it runs out of quota, and
re-queues it once the period rolls over and the quota gets refreshed.

Sadly it failed to take the hierarchy into consideration. Share more of the
enqueue/dequeue code with regular task opterations.

Also, some operations like sched_setscheduler() can dequeue/enqueue tasks that
are in throttled runqueues, we should not inadvertly re-enqueue empty runqueues
so check for that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Daniel K. <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19 09:06:57 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko 20b6331bfe sched: rework of "prioritize non-migratable tasks over migratable ones"
regarding this commit: 45c01e8249

I think we can do it simpler. Please take a look at the patch below.

Instead of having 2 separate arrays (which is + ~800 bytes on x86_32 and
twice so on x86_64), let's add "exclusive" (the ones that are bound to
this CPU) tasks to the head of the queue and "shared" ones -- to the
end.

In case of a few newly woken up "exclusive" tasks, they are 'stacked'
(not queued as now), meaning that a task {i+1} is being placed in front
of the previously woken up task {i}. But I don't think that this
behavior may cause any realistic problems.

There are a couple of changes on top of this one.

(1) in check_preempt_curr_rt()

I don't think there is a need for the "pick_next_rt_entity(rq, &rq->rt)
!= &rq->curr->rt" check.

enqueue_task_rt(p) and check_preempt_curr_rt() are always called one
after another with rq->lock being held so the following check
"p->rt.nr_cpus_allowed == 1 && rq->curr->rt.nr_cpus_allowed != 1" should
be enough (well, just its left part) to guarantee that 'p' has been
queued in front of the 'curr'.

(2) in set_cpus_allowed_rt()

I don't thinks there is a need for requeue_task_rt() here.

Perhaps, the only case when 'requeue' (+ reschedule) might be useful is
as follows:

i) weight == 1 && cpu_isset(task_cpu(p), *new_mask)

i.e. a task is being bound to this CPU);

ii) 'p' != rq->curr

but here, 'p' has already been on this CPU for a while and was not
migrated. i.e. it's possible that 'rq->curr' would not have high chances
to be migrated right at this particular moment (although, has chance in
a bit longer term), should we allow it to be preempted.

Anyway, I think we should not perhaps make it more complex trying to
address some rare corner cases. For instance, that's why a single queue
approach would be preferable. Unless I'm missing something obvious, this
approach gives us similar functionality at lower cost.

Verified only compilation-wise.

(Almost)-Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-18 12:41:18 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7def2be1dc sched: fix hotplug cpus on ia64
Cliff Wickman wrote:

> I built an ia64 kernel from Andrew's tree (2.6.26-rc2-mm1)
> and get a very predictable hotplug cpu problem.
> billberry1:/tmp/cpw # ./dis
> disabled cpu 17
> enabled cpu 17
> billberry1:/tmp/cpw # ./dis
> disabled cpu 17
> enabled cpu 17
> billberry1:/tmp/cpw # ./dis
>
> The script that disables the cpu always hangs (unkillable)
> on the 3rd attempt.
>
> And a bit further:
> The kstopmachine thread always sits on the run queue (real time) for about
> 30 minutes before running.

this fix solves some (but not all) issues between CPU hotplug and
RT bandwidth throttling.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-10 12:17:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1100ac91b6 sched: fix cpuprio build bug
this patch was not built on !SMP:

 kernel/sched_rt.c: In function 'inc_rt_tasks':
 kernel/sched_rt.c:404: error: 'struct rq' has no member named 'online'

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-06 15:19:46 +02:00
Gregory Haskins 1f11eb6a8b sched: fix cpupri hotplug support
The RT folks over at RedHat found an issue w.r.t. hotplug support which
was traced to problems with the cpupri infrastructure in the scheduler:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449676

This bug affects 23-rt12+, 24-rtX, 25-rtX, and sched-devel.  This patch
applies to 25.4-rt4, though it should trivially apply to most cpupri enabled
kernels mentioned above.

It turned out that the issue was that offline cpus could get inadvertently
registered with cpupri so that they were erroneously selected during
migration decisions.  The end result would be an OOPS as the offline cpu
had tasks routed to it.

This patch generalizes the old join/leave domain interface into an
online/offline interface, and adjusts the root-domain/hotplug code to
utilize it.

I was able to easily reproduce the issue prior to this patch, and am no
longer able to reproduce it after this patch.  I can offline cpus
indefinately and everything seems to be in working order.

Thanks to Arnaldo (acme), Thomas, and Peter for doing the legwork to point
me in the right direction.  Also thank you to Peter for reviewing the
early iterations of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-06 15:19:42 +02:00
Gregory Haskins 6e0534f278 sched: use a 2-d bitmap for searching lowest-pri CPU
The current code use a linear algorithm which causes scaling issues
on larger SMP machines.  This patch replaces that algorithm with a
2-dimensional bitmap to reduce latencies in the wake-up path.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-06 15:19:28 +02:00
Gregory Haskins 45c01e8249 sched: prioritize non-migratable tasks over migratable ones
Dmitry Adamushko pointed out a known flaw in the rt-balancing algorithm
that could allow suboptimal balancing if a non-migratable task gets
queued behind a running migratable one.  It is discussed in this thread:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/22/296

This issue has been further exacerbated by a recent checkin to
sched-devel (git-id 5eee63a5ebc19a870ac40055c0be49457f3a89a3).

>From a pure priority standpoint, the run-queue is doing the "right"
thing. Using Dmitry's nomenclature, if T0 is on cpu1 first, and T1
wakes up at equal or lower priority (affined only to cpu1) later, it
*should* wait for T0 to finish.  However, in reality that is likely
suboptimal from a system perspective if there are other cores that
could allow T0 and T1 to run concurrently.  Since T1 can not migrate,
the only choice for higher concurrency is to try to move T0.  This is
not something we addessed in the recent rt-balancing re-work.

This patch tries to enhance the balancing algorithm by accomodating this
scenario.  It accomplishes this by incorporating the migratability of a
task into its priority calculation.  Within a numerical tsk->prio, a
non-migratable task is logically higher than a migratable one.  We
maintain this by introducing a new per-priority queue (xqueue, or
exclusive-queue) for holding non-migratable tasks.  The scheduler will
draw from the xqueue over the standard shared-queue (squeue) when
available.

There are several details for utilizing this properly.

1) During task-wake-up, we not only need to check if the priority
   preempts the current task, but we also need to check for this
   non-migratable condition.  Therefore, if a non-migratable task wakes
   up and sees an equal priority migratable task already running, it
   will attempt to preempt it *if* there is a likelyhood that the
   current task will find an immediate home.

2) Tasks only get this non-migratable "priority boost" on wake-up.  Any
   requeuing will result in the non-migratable task being queued to the
   end of the shared queue.  This is an attempt to prevent the system
   from being completely unfair to migratable tasks during things like
   SCHED_RR timeslicing.

I am sure this patch introduces potentially "odd" behavior if you
concoct a scenario where a bunch of non-migratable threads could starve
migratable ones given the right pattern.  I am not yet convinced that
this is a problem since we are talking about tasks of equal RT priority
anyway, and there never is much in the way of guarantees against
starvation under that scenario anyway. (e.g. you could come up with a
similar scenario with a specific timing environment verses an affinity
environment).  I can be convinced otherwise, but for now I think this is
"ok".

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-06 15:19:25 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6363ca57c7 revert ("sched: fair-group: SMP-nice for group scheduling")
Yanmin Zhang reported:

Comparing with 2.6.25, volanoMark has big regression with kernel 2.6.26-rc1.
It's about 50% on my 8-core stoakley, 16-core tigerton, and Itanium Montecito.

With bisect, I located the following patch:

| 18d95a2832 is first bad commit
| commit 18d95a2832
| Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
| Date:   Sat Apr 19 19:45:00 2008 +0200
|
|     sched: fair-group: SMP-nice for group scheduling

Revert it so that we get v2.6.25 behavior.

Bisected-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-29 11:28:57 +02:00
Mike Travis 363ab6f142 core: use performance variant for_each_cpu_mask_nr
Change references from for_each_cpu_mask to for_each_cpu_mask_nr
where appropriate

Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 18:35:12 +02:00
Gregory Haskins 8ae121ac86 sched: fix RT task-wakeup logic
Dmitry Adamushko pointed out a logic error in task_wake_up_rt() where we
will always evaluate to "true".  You can find the thread here:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/22/296

In reality, we only want to try to push tasks away when a wake up request is
not going to preempt the current task.  So lets fix it.

Note: We introduce test_tsk_need_resched() instead of open-coding the flag
check so that the merge-conflict with -rt should help remind us that we
may need to support NEEDS_RESCHED_DELAYED in the future, too.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-05 23:56:18 +02:00
Harvey Harrison 2abdad0a4c sched: make rt_sched_class, idle_sched_class static
The C files are included directly in sched.c, so they are
effectively static.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-05 23:56:17 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 58d6c2d72f sched: rt-group: optimize dequeue_rt_stack
Now that the group hierarchy can have an arbitrary depth the O(n^2) nature
of RT task dequeues will really hurt. Optimize this by providing space to
store the tree path, so we can walk it the other way.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 18d95a2832 sched: fair-group: SMP-nice for group scheduling
Implement SMP nice support for the full group hierarchy.

On each load-balance action, compile a sched_domain wide view of the full
task_group tree. We compute the domain wide view when walking down the
hierarchy, and readjust the weights when walking back up.

After collecting and readjusting the domain wide view, we try to balance the
tasks within the task_groups. The current approach is a naively balance each
task group until we've moved the targeted amount of load.

Inspired by Srivatsa Vaddsgiri's previous code and Abhishek Chandra's H-SMP
paper.

XXX: there will be some numerical issues due to the limited nature of
     SCHED_LOAD_SCALE wrt to representing a task_groups influence on the
     total weight. When the tree is deep enough, or the task weight small
     enough, we'll run out of bits.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Abhishek Chandra <chandra@cs.umn.edu>
CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
Dhaval Giani 354d60c2ff sched: mix tasks and groups
This patch allows tasks and groups to exist in the same cfs_rq. With this
change the CFS group scheduling follows a 1/(M+N) model from a 1/(1+N)
fairness model where M tasks and N groups exist at the cfs_rq level.

[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: rt bits and assorted fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Mike Travis cd8ba7cd9b sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function
Add a new function that accepts a pointer to the "newly allowed cpus"
cpumask argument.

int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const cpumask_t *new_mask)

The current set_cpus_allowed() function is modified to use the above
but this does not result in an ABI change.  And with some compiler
optimization help, it may not introduce any additional overhead.

Additionally, to enforce the read only nature of the new_mask arg, the
"const" property is migrated to sub-functions called by set_cpus_allowed.
This silences compiler warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ac086bc229 sched: rt-group: smp balancing
Currently the rt group scheduling does a per cpu runtime limit, however
the rt load balancer makes no guarantees about an equal spread of real-
time tasks, just that at any one time, the highest priority tasks run.

Solve this by making the runtime limit a global property by borrowing
excessive runtime from the other cpus once the local limit runs out.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra d0b27fa778 sched: rt-group: synchonised bandwidth period
Various SMP balancing algorithms require that the bandwidth period
run in sync.

Possible improvements are moving the rt_bandwidth thing into root_domain
and keeping a span per rt_bandwidth which marks throttled cpus.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 6fa46fa526 sched: balance RT task resched only on runqueue
Sripathi Kodi reported a crash in the -rt kernel:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435674

this is due to a place that can reschedule a task without holding
the tasks runqueue lock.  This was caused by the RT balancing code
that pulls RT tasks to the current run queue and will reschedule the
current task.

There's a slight chance that the pulling of the RT tasks will release
the current runqueue's lock and retake it (in the double_lock_balance).
During this time that the runqueue is released, the current task can
migrate to another runqueue.

In the prio_changed_rt code, after the pull, if the current task is of
lesser priority than one of the RT tasks pulled, resched_task is called
on the current task. If the current task had migrated in that small
window, resched_task will be called without holding the runqueue lock
for the runqueue that the task is on.

This race condition also exists in the mainline kernel and this patch
adds a check to make sure the task hasn't migrated before calling
resched_task.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-07 16:43:00 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 62fb185130 sched: revert load_balance_monitor() changes
The following commits cause a number of regressions:

  commit 58e2d4ca58
  Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
  Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100
  sched: group scheduling, change how cpu load is calculated

  commit 6b2d770026
  Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
  Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100
  sched: group scheduler, fix fairness of cpu bandwidth allocation for task groups

Namely:
 - very frequent wakeups on SMP, reported by PowerTop users.
 - cacheline trashing on (large) SMP
 - some latencies larger than 500ms

While there is a mergeable patch to fix the latter, the former issues
are not fixable in a manner suitable for .25 (we're at -rc3 now).

Hence we revert them and try again in v2.6.26.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-04 17:54:06 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 052f1dc7eb sched: rt-group: make rt groups scheduling configurable
Make the rt group scheduler compile time configurable.
Keep it experimental for now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:40 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 9f0c1e560c sched: rt-group: interface
Change the rt_ratio interface to rt_runtime_us, to match rt_period_us.
This avoids picking a granularity for the ratio.

Extend the /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/ interface to allow setting
the group's rt_runtime.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 23b0fdfc92 sched: rt-group: deal with PI
Steven mentioned the fun case where a lock holding task will be throttled.

Simple fix: allow groups that have boosted tasks to run anyway.

If a runnable task in a throttled group gets boosted the dequeue/enqueue
done by rt_mutex_setprio() is enough to unthrottle the group.

This is ofcourse not quite correct. Two possible ways forward are:
  - second prio array for boosted tasks
  - boost to a prio ceiling (this would also work for deadline scheduling)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:39 +01:00
Dmitry Adamushko 326587b840 sched: fix goto retry in pick_next_task_rt()
looking at it one more time:

(1) it looks to me that there is no need to call
sched_rt_ratio_exceeded() from pick_next_rt_entity()

- [ for CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED ] queues with rt_rq->rt_throttled are
not within this 'tree-like hierarchy' (or whatever we should call it
:-)

- there is also no need to re-check 'rt_rq->rt_time > ratio' at this
point as 'rt_rq->rt_time' couldn't have been increased since the last
call to update_curr_rt() (which obviously calls
sched_rt_ratio_esceeded())
well, it might be that 'ratio' for this rt_rq has been re-configured
(and the period over which this rt_rq was active has not yet been
finished)... but I don't think we should really take this into
account.

(2) now pick_next_rt_entity() must never return NULL, so let's change
pick_next_task_rt() accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 5a52dd5009 sched: rt-watchdog: fix .rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY
Remove the curious logic to set it_sched_expires in the future. It useless
because rt.timeout wouldn't be incremented anyway.

Explicity check for RLIM_INFINITY as a test programm that had a 1s soft limit
and a inf hard limit would SIGKILL at 1s. This is because RLIM_INFINITY+d-1
is d-2.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlsta <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:32 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 1020387f5f sched: rt-group: reduce rescheduling
Only reschedule if the new group has a higher prio task.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:32 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 48d5e25821 sched: rt throttling vs no_hz
We need to teach no_hz about the rt throttling because its tick driven.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:31 +01:00
Mike Galbraith 614ee1f61f sched: pull_rt_task() cleanup
"goto out" is an odd way to spell "skip".

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:30 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 6f505b1642 sched: rt group scheduling
Extend group scheduling to also cover the realtime classes. It uses the time
limiting introduced by the previous patch to allow multiple realtime groups.

The hard time limit is required to keep behaviour deterministic.

The algorithms used make the realtime scheduler O(tg), linear scaling wrt the
number of task groups. This is the worst case behaviour I can't seem to get out
of, the avg. case of the algorithms can be improved, I focused on correctness
and worst case.

[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: move side-effects out of BUG_ON(). ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:30 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra fa85ae2418 sched: rt time limit
Very simple time limit on the realtime scheduling classes.
Allow the rq's realtime class to consume sched_rt_ratio of every
sched_rt_period slice. If the class exceeds this quota the fair class
will preempt the realtime class.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 8f4d37ec07 sched: high-res preemption tick
Use HR-timers (when available) to deliver an accurate preemption tick.

The regular scheduler tick that runs at 1/HZ can be too coarse when nice
level are used. The fairness system will still keep the cpu utilisation 'fair'
by then delaying the task that got an excessive amount of CPU time but try to
minimize this by delivering preemption points spot-on.

The average frequency of this extra interrupt is sched_latency / nr_latency.
Which need not be higher than 1/HZ, its just that the distribution within the
sched_latency period is important.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 78f2c7db60 sched: SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR watchdog timer
Introduce a new rlimit that allows the user to set a runtime timeout on
real-time tasks their slice. Once this limit is exceeded the task will receive
SIGXCPU.

So it measures runtime since the last sleep.

Input and ideas by Thomas Gleixner and Lennart Poettering.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:27 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra fa717060f1 sched: sched_rt_entity
Move the task_struct members specific to rt scheduling together.
A future optimization could be to put sched_entity and sched_rt_entity
into a union.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:27 +01:00
Gregory Haskins c49443c538 sched: remove some old cpuset logic
We had support for overlapping cpuset based rto logic in early
prototypes that is no longer used, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:23 +01:00
Gregory Haskins cdc8eb984c sched: RT-balance, only adjust overload state when changing
The overload set/clears were originally idempotent when this logic was first
implemented.  But that is no longer true due to the addition of the atomic
counter and this logic was never updated to work properly with that change.
So only adjust the overload state if it is actually changing to avoid
getting out of sync.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:23 +01:00
Steven Rostedt cb46984504 sched: RT-balance, add new methods to sched_class
Dmitry Adamushko found that the current implementation of the RT
balancing code left out changes to the sched_setscheduler and
rt_mutex_setprio.

This patch addresses this issue by adding methods to the schedule classes
to handle being switched out of (switched_from) and being switched into
(switched_to) a sched_class. Also a method for changing of priorities
is also added (prio_changed).

This patch also removes some duplicate logic between rt_mutex_setprio and
sched_setscheduler.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:22 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 9a897c5a67 sched: RT-balance, replace hooks with pre/post schedule and wakeup methods
To make the main sched.c code more agnostic to the schedule classes.
Instead of having specific hooks in the schedule code for the RT class
balancing. They are replaced with a pre_schedule, post_schedule
and task_wake_up methods. These methods may be used by any of the classes
but currently, only the sched_rt class implements them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:22 +01:00
Ingo Molnar bdd7c81b49 sched: fix sched_rt.c:join/leave_domain
fix build bug in sched_rt.c:join/leave_domain and make them only
be included on SMP builds.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:18 +01:00
Gregory Haskins 637f50851b sched: only balance our RT tasks within our domain
We move the rt-overload data as the first global to per-domain
reclassification.  This limits the scope of overload related cache-line
bouncing to stay with a specified partition instead of affecting all
cpus in the system.

Finally, we limit the scope of find_lowest_cpu searches to the domain
instead of the entire system.  Note that we would always respect domain
boundaries even without this patch, but we first would scan potentially
all cpus before whittling the list down.  Now we can avoid looking at
RQs that are out of scope, again reducing cache-line hits.

Note: In some cases, task->cpus_allowed will effectively reduce our search
to within our domain.  However, I believe there are cases where the
cpus_allowed mask may be all ones and therefore we err on the side of
caution.  If it can be optimized later, so be it.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 7f51f29820 sched: clean up schedule_balance_rt()
clean up schedule_balance_rt().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:17 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 80bf3171dc sched: clean up pull_rt_task()
clean up pull_rt_task().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:17 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 00597c3ed7 sched: remove leftover debugging
remove leftover debugging.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 6e1938d3ad sched: remove rt_overload()
remove rt_overload() - it's an unnecessary indirection.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 84de427489 sched: clean up kernel/sched_rt.c
clean up whitespace damage and missing comments in kernel/sched_rt.c.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar deeeccd41b sched: clean up overlong line in kernel/sched_debug.c
clean up overlong line in kernel/sched_debug.c.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 4df64c0bfb sched: clean up find_lock_lowest_rq()
clean up find_lock_lowest_rq().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 79064fbf75 sched: clean up pick_next_highest_task_rt()
clean up pick_next_highest_task_rt().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:14 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 610bf05645 sched: RT-balance, optimize cpu search
This patch removes several cpumask operations by keeping track
of the first of the CPUS that is of the lowest priority. When
the search for the lowest priority runqueue is completed, all
the bits up to the first CPU with the lowest priority runqueue
is cleared.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:13 +01:00
Gregory Haskins 06f90dbd76 sched: RT-balance, optimize
We can cheaply track the number of bits set in the cpumask for the lowest
priority CPUs.  Therefore, compute the mask's weight and use it to skip
the optimal domain search logic when there is only one CPU available.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:13 +01:00
Gregory Haskins 17b3279b48 sched: break out early if RT task cannot be migrated
We don't need to bother searching if the task cannot be migrated

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:13 +01:00
Steven Rostedt e1f47d891c sched: RT-balance, avoid overloading
This patch changes the searching for a run queue by a waking RT task
to try to pick another runqueue if the currently running task
is an RT task.

The reason is that RT tasks behave different than normal
tasks. Preempting a normal task to run a RT task to keep
its cache hot is fine, because the preempted non-RT task
may wait on that same runqueue to run again unless the
migration thread comes along and pulls it off.

RT tasks behave differently. If one is preempted, it makes
an active effort to continue to run. So by having a high
priority task preempt a lower priority RT task, that lower
RT task will then quickly try to run on another runqueue.
This will cause that lower RT task to replace its nice
hot cache (and TLB) with a completely cold one. This is
for the hope that the new high priority RT task will keep
 its cache hot.

Remeber that this high priority RT task was just woken up.
So it may likely have been sleeping for several milliseconds,
and will end up with a cold cache anyway. RT tasks run till
they voluntarily stop, or are preempted by a higher priority
task. This means that it is unlikely that the woken RT task
will have a hot cache to wake up to. So pushing off a lower
RT task is just killing its cache for no good reason.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:12 +01:00
Gregory Haskins a22d7fc187 sched: wake-balance fixes
We have logic to detect whether the system has migratable tasks, but we are
not using it when deciding whether to push tasks away.  So we add support
for considering this new information.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:12 +01:00