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Paul Turner 05ca62c6ca sched: Use rq->clock_task instead of rq->clock for correctly maintaining load averages
The delta in clock_task is a more fair attribution of how much time a tg has
been contributing load to the current cpu.

While not really important it also means we're more in sync (by magnitude)
with respect to periodic updates (since __update_curr deltas are clock_task
based).

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110122044852.007092349@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 12:31:03 +01:00
Paul Turner b815f1963e sched: Fix/remove redundant cfs_rq checks
Since updates are against an entity's queuing cfs_rq it's not possible to
enter update_cfs_{shares,load} with a NULL cfs_rq.  (Indeed, update_cfs_load
would crash prior to the check if we did anyway since we load is examined
during the initializers).

Also, in the update_cfs_load case there's no point
in maintaining averages for rq->cfs_rq since we don't perform shares
distribution at that level -- NULL check is replaced accordingly.

Thanks to Dan Carpenter for pointing out the deference before NULL check.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110122044851.825284940@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 12:31:02 +01:00
Paul Turner e37b6a7b27 sched: Fix sign under-flows in wake_affine
While care is taken around the zero-point in effective_load to not exceed
the instantaneous rq->weight, it's still possible (e.g. using wake_idx != 0)
for (load + effective_load) to underflow.

In this case the comparing the unsigned values can result in incorrect balanced
decisions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110122044851.734245014@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 12:31:01 +01:00
Yong Zhang 3ff6dcac73 sched: Fix poor interactivity on UP systems due to group scheduler nice tune bug
Michael Witten and Christian Kujau reported that the autogroup
scheduling feature hurts interactivity on their UP systems.

It turns out that this is an older bug in the group scheduling code,
and the wider appeal provided by the autogroup feature exposed it
more prominently.

When on UP with FAIR_GROUP_SCHED enabled, tune shares
only affect tg->shares, but is not reflected in
tg->se->load. The reason is that update_cfs_shares()
does nothing on UP.

So introduce update_cfs_shares() for UP && FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.

This issue was found when enable autogroup scheduling was enabled,
but it is an older bug that also exists on cgroup.cpu on UP.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Christian Kujau <christian@nerdbynature.de>
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110124073352.GA24186@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-24 11:47:50 +01:00
Mike Galbraith d7d8294415 sched: Fix signed unsigned comparison in check_preempt_tick()
Signed unsigned comparison may lead to superfluous resched if leftmost
is right of the current task, wasting a few cycles, and inadvertently
_lengthening_ the current task's slice.

Reported-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1294202477.9384.5.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 15:09:44 +01:00
Paul Turner 977dda7c9b sched: Update effective_load() to use global share weights
Previously effective_load would approximate the global load weight present on
a group taking advantage of:

entity_weight = tg->shares ( lw / global_lw ), where entity_weight was provided
by tg_shares_up.

This worked (approximately) for an 'empty' (at tg level) cpu since we would
place boost load representative of what a newly woken task would receive.

However, now that load is instantaneously updated this assumption is no longer
true and the load calculation is rather incorrect in this case.

Fix this (and improve the general case) by re-writing effective_load to take
advantage of the new shares distribution code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110115015817.069769529@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 15:09:38 +01:00
Paul Turner 19e5eebb8e sched: Fix interactivity bug by charging unaccounted run-time on entity re-weight
Mike Galbraith reported poor interactivity[*] when the new shares distribution
code was combined with autogroups.

The root cause turns out to be a mis-ordering of accounting accrued execution
time and shares updates.  Since update_curr() is issued hierarchically,
updating the parent entity weights to reflect child enqueue/dequeue results in
the parent's unaccounted execution time then being accrued (vs vruntime) at the
new weight as opposed to the weight present at accumulation.

While this doesn't have much effect on processes with timeslices that cross a
tick, it is particularly problematic for an interactive process (e.g. Xorg)
which incurs many (tiny) timeslices.  In this scenario almost all updates are
at dequeue which can result in significant fairness perturbation (especially if
it is the only thread, resulting in potential {tg->shares, MIN_SHARES}
transitions).

Correct this by ensuring unaccounted time is accumulated prior to manipulating
an entity's weight.

[*] http://xkcd.com/619/ is perversely Nostradamian here.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20101216031038.159704378@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-19 16:36:30 +01:00
Paul Turner 43365bd7ff sched: Move periodic share updates to entity_tick()
Long running entities that do not block (dequeue) require periodic updates to
maintain accurate share values.  (Note: group entities with several threads are
quite likely to be non-blocking in many circumstances).

By virtue of being long-running however, we will see entity ticks (otherwise
the required update occurs in dequeue/put and we are done).  Thus we can move
the detection (and associated work) for these updates into the periodic path.

This restores the 'atomicity' of update_curr() with respect to accounting.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101216031038.067028969@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-19 16:36:22 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 8e9255e6a2 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: we want to queue up dependent cleanup

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-08 20:15:29 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 22a867d817 Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc3' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-26 15:05:21 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 70caf8a6c1 sched: Fix UP build breakage
The recent cgroup-scheduling rework caused a UP build problem.

Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-23 10:29:07 +01:00
Paul Turner d6b5591829 sched: Allow update_cfs_load() to update global load
Refactor the global load updates from update_shares_cpu() so that
update_cfs_load() can update global load when it is more than ~10%
out of sync.

The new global_load parameter allows us to force an update, regardless of
the error factor so that we can synchronize w/ update_shares().

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.377473595@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:50 +01:00
Paul Turner 3b3d190ec3 sched: Implement demand based update_cfs_load()
When the system is busy, dilation of rq->next_balance makes lb->update_shares()
insufficiently frequent for threads which don't sleep (no dequeue/enqueue
updates).  Adjust for this by making demand based updates based on the
accumulation of execution time sufficient to wrap our averaging window.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.291159744@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:49 +01:00
Paul Turner c66eaf619c sched: Update shares on idle_balance
Since shares updates are no longer expensive and effectively local, update them
at idle_balance().  This allows us to more quickly redistribute shares to
another cpu when our load becomes idle.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.204191702@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:49 +01:00
Paul Turner a7a4f8a752 sched: Add sysctl_sched_shares_window
Introduce a new sysctl for the shares window and disambiguate it from
sched_time_avg.

A 10ms window appears to be a good compromise between accuracy and performance.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.112173964@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:49 +01:00
Paul Turner 67e86250f8 sched: Introduce hierarchal order on shares update list
Avoid duplicate shares update calls by ensuring children always appear before
parents in rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list.

This allows us to do a single in-order traversal for update_shares().

Since we always enqueue in bottom-up order this reduces to 2 cases:

1) Our parent is already in the list, e.g.

   root
     \
      b
      /\
      c d* (root->b->c already enqueued)

Since d's parent is enqueued we push it to the head of the list, implicitly ahead of b.

2) Our parent does not appear in the list (or we have no parent)

In this case we enqueue to the tail of the list, if our parent is subsequently enqueued
(bottom-up) it will appear to our right by the same rule.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.022488865@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:48 +01:00
Paul Turner e33078baa4 sched: Fix update_cfs_load() synchronization
Using cfs_rq->nr_running is not sufficient to synchronize update_cfs_load with
the put path since nr_running accounting occurs at deactivation.

It's also not safe to make the removal decision based on load_avg as this fails
with both high periods and low shares.  Resolve this by clipping history after
4 periods without activity.

Note: the above will always occur from update_shares() since in the
last-task-sleep-case that task will still be cfs_rq->curr when update_cfs_load
is called.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.933428187@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:48 +01:00
Paul Turner f0d7442a59 sched: Fix load corruption from update_cfs_shares()
As part of enqueue_entity both a new entity weight and its contribution to the
queuing cfs_rq / rq are updated.  Since update_cfs_shares will only update the
queueing weights when the entity is on_rq (which in this case it is not yet),
there's a dependency loop here:

update_cfs_shares needs account_entity_enqueue to update cfs_rq->load.weight
account_entity_enqueue needs the updated weight for the queuing cfs_rq load[*]

Fix this and avoid spurious dequeue/enqueues by issuing update_cfs_shares as
if we had accounted the enqueue already.

This was also resulting in rq->load corruption previously.

[*]: this dependency also exists when using the group cfs_rq w/
     update_cfs_shares as the weight of the enqueued entity changes
     without the load being updated.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.844900206@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:47 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 9e3081ca61 sched: Make tg_shares_up() walk on-demand
Make tg_shares_up() use the active cgroup list, this means we cannot
do a strict bottom-up walk of the hierarchy, but assuming its a very
wide tree with a small number of active groups it should be a win.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.754159484@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:47 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 3d4b47b4b0 sched: Implement on-demand (active) cfs_rq list
Make certain load-balance actions scale per number of active cgroups
instead of the number of existing cgroups.

This makes wakeup/sleep paths more expensive, but is a win for systems
where the vast majority of existing cgroups are idle.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.666535048@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:47 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 2069dd75c7 sched: Rewrite tg_shares_up)
By tracking a per-cpu load-avg for each cfs_rq and folding it into a
global task_group load on each tick we can rework tg_shares_up to be
strictly per-cpu.

This should improve cpu-cgroup performance for smp systems
significantly.

[ Paul: changed to use queueing cfs_rq + bug fixes ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.580480400@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:46 +01:00
Nikhil Rao d5ad140bc1 sched: Fix idle balancing
An earlier commit reverts idle balancing throttling reset to fix a 30%
regression in volanomark throughput. We still need to reset idle_stamp
when we pull a task in newidle balance.

Reported-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290022924-3548-1-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:12:33 +01:00
Alex Shi b5482cfa1c sched: Fix volanomark performance regression
Commit fab4762 triggers excessive idle balancing, causing a ~30% loss in
volanomark throughput. Remove idle balancing throttle reset.

Originally-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1289928732.5169.211.camel@maggy.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:11:43 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 1e5a74059f sched: Fix cross-sched-class wakeup preemption
Instead of dealing with sched classes inside each check_preempt_curr()
implementation, pull out this logic into the generic wakeup preemption
path.

This fixes a hang in KVM (and others) where we are waiting for the
stop machine thread to run ...

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Tested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1288891946.2039.31.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-11 14:37:23 +01:00
Suresh Siddha aae6d3ddd8 sched: Use group weight, idle cpu metrics to fix imbalances during idle
Currently we consider a sched domain to be well balanced when the imbalance
is less than the domain's imablance_pct. As the number of cores and threads
are increasing, current values of imbalance_pct (for example 25% for a
NUMA domain) are not enough to detect imbalances like:

a) On a WSM-EP system (two sockets, each having 6 cores and 12 logical threads),
24 cpu-hogging tasks get scheduled as 13 on one socket and 11 on another
socket. Leading to an idle HT cpu.

b) On a hypothetial 2 socket NHM-EX system (each socket having 8 cores and
16 logical threads), 16 cpu-hogging tasks can get scheduled as 9 on one
socket and 7 on another socket. Leaving one core in a socket idle
whereas in another socket we have a core having both its HT siblings busy.

While this issue can be fixed by decreasing the domain's imbalance_pct
(by making it a function of number of logical cpus in the domain), it
can potentially cause more task migrations across sched groups in an
overloaded case.

Fix this by using imbalance_pct only during newly_idle and busy
load balancing. And during idle load balancing, check if there
is an imbalance in number of idle cpu's across the busiest and this
sched_group or if the busiest group has more tasks than its weight that
the idle cpu in this_group can pull.

Reported-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1284760952.2676.11.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-10 23:13:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 37542b6a7e 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_stat: Update sched_info_queue/dequeue() code comments
  sched, cgroup: Fixup broken cgroup movement
2010-10-29 08:05:33 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra b2b5ce022a sched, cgroup: Fixup broken cgroup movement
Dima noticed that we fail to correct the ->vruntime of sleeping tasks
when we move them between cgroups.

Reported-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1287150604.29097.1513.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-22 14:16:45 +02:00
Linus Torvalds bc4016f481 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (29 commits)
  sched: Export account_system_vtime()
  sched: Call tick_check_idle before __irq_enter
  sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power
  sched: Do not account irq time to current task
  x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
  sched: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time
  sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification
  sched: Consolidate account_system_vtime extern declaration
  sched: Fix softirq time accounting
  sched: Drop group_capacity to 1 only if local group has extra capacity
  sched: Force balancing on newidle balance if local group has capacity
  sched: Set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu
  sched: Do not consider SCHED_IDLE tasks to be cache hot
  sched: Drop all load weight manipulation for RT tasks
  sched: Create special class for stop/migrate work
  sched: Unindent labels
  sched: Comment updates: fix default latency and granularity numbers
  tracing/sched: Add sched_pi_setprio tracepoint
  sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference
  sched: Try not to migrate higher priority RT tasks
  ...
2010-10-21 12:55:43 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi aa48380851 sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power
The idea was suggested by Peter Zijlstra here:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127476934517534&w=2

irq time is technically not available to the tasks running on the CPU.
This patch removes irq time from CPU power piggybacking on
sched_rt_avg_update().

Tested this by keeping CPU X busy with a network intensive task having 75%
oa a single CPU irq processing (hard+soft) on a 4-way system. And start seven
cycle soakers on the system. Without this change, there will be two tasks on
each CPU. With this change, there is a single task on irq busy CPU X and
remaining 7 tasks are spread around among other 3 CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-8-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:27 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi 305e6835e0 sched: Do not account irq time to current task
Scheduler accounts both softirq and interrupt processing times to the
currently running task. This means, if the interrupt processing was
for some other task in the system, then the current task ends up being
penalized as it gets shorter runtime than otherwise.

Change sched task accounting to acoount only actual task time from
currently running task. Now update_curr(), modifies the delta_exec to
depend on rq->clock_task.

Note that this change only handles CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING case. We can
extend this to CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING with minimal effort. But, thats
for later.

This change will impact scheduling behavior in interrupt heavy conditions.

Tested on a 4-way system with eth0 handled by CPU 2 and a network heavy
task (nc) running on CPU 3 (and no RSS/RFS). With that I have CPU 2
spending 75%+ of its time in irq processing. CPU 3 spending around 35%
time running nc task.

Now, if I run another CPU intensive task on CPU 2, without this change
/proc/<pid>/schedstat shows 100% of time accounted to this task. With this
change, it rightly shows less than 25% accounted to this task as remaining
time is actually spent on irq processing.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-7-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:26 +02:00
Nikhil Rao 75dd321d79 sched: Drop group_capacity to 1 only if local group has extra capacity
When SD_PREFER_SIBLING is set on a sched domain, drop group_capacity to 1
only if the local group has extra capacity. The extra check prevents the case
where you always pull from the heaviest group when it is already under-utilized
(possible with a large weight task outweighs the tasks on the system).

For example, consider a 16-cpu quad-core quad-socket machine with MC and NUMA
scheduling domains. Let's say we spawn 15 nice0 tasks and one nice-15 task,
and each task is running on one core. In this case, we observe the following
events when balancing at the NUMA domain:

- find_busiest_group() will always pick the sched group containing the niced
  task to be the busiest group.
- find_busiest_queue() will then always pick one of the cpus running the
  nice0 task (never picks the cpu with the nice -15 task since
  weighted_cpuload > imbalance).
- The load balancer fails to migrate the task since it is the running task
  and increments sd->nr_balance_failed.
- It repeats the above steps a few more times until sd->nr_balance_failed > 5,
  at which point it kicks off the active load balancer, wakes up the migration
  thread and kicks the nice 0 task off the cpu.

The load balancer doesn't stop until we kick out all nice 0 tasks from
the sched group, leaving you with 3 idle cpus and one cpu running the
nice -15 task.

When balancing at the NUMA domain, we drop sgs.group_capacity to 1 if the child
domain (in this case MC) has SD_PREFER_SIBLING set.  Subsequent load checks are
not relevant because the niced task has a very large weight.

In this patch, we add an extra condition to the "if(prefer_sibling)" check in
update_sd_lb_stats(). We drop the capacity of a group only if the local group
has extra capacity, ie. nr_running < group_capacity. This patch preserves the
original intent of the prefer_siblings check (to spread tasks across the system
in low utilization scenarios) and fixes the case above.

It helps in the following ways:
- In low utilization cases (where nr_tasks << nr_cpus), we still drop
  group_capacity down to 1 if we prefer siblings.
- On very busy systems (where nr_tasks >> nr_cpus), sgs.nr_running will most
  likely be > sgs.group_capacity.
- When balancing large weight tasks, if the local group does not have extra
  capacity, we do not pick the group with the niced task as the busiest group.
  This prevents failed balances, active migration and the under-utilization
  described above.

Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1287173550-30365-5-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:19 +02:00
Nikhil Rao fab476228b sched: Force balancing on newidle balance if local group has capacity
This patch forces a load balance on a newly idle cpu when the local group has
extra capacity and the busiest group does not have any. It improves system
utilization when balancing tasks with a large weight differential.

Under certain situations, such as a niced down task (i.e. nice = -15) in the
presence of nr_cpus NICE0 tasks, the niced task lands on a sched group and
kicks away other tasks because of its large weight. This leads to sub-optimal
utilization of the machine. Even though the sched group has capacity, it does
not pull tasks because sds.this_load >> sds.max_load, and f_b_g() returns NULL.

With this patch, if the local group has extra capacity, we shortcut the checks
in f_b_g() and try to pull a task over. A sched group has extra capacity if the
group capacity is greater than the number of running tasks in that group.

Thanks to Mike Galbraith for discussions leading to this patch and for the
insight to reuse SD_NEWIDLE_BALANCE.

Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1287173550-30365-4-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:18 +02:00
Nikhil Rao 2582f0eba5 sched: Set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu
When cycling through sched groups to determine the busiest group, set
group_imb only if the busiest cpu has more than 1 runnable task. This patch
fixes the case where two cpus in a group have one runnable task each, but there
is a large weight differential between these two tasks. The load balancer is
unable to migrate any task from this group, and hence do not consider this
group to be imbalanced.

Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286996978-7007-3-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com>
[ small code readability edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:17 +02:00
Takuya Yoshikawa 864616ee67 sched: Comment updates: fix default latency and granularity numbers
Targeted preemption latency and minimal preemption granularity
for CPU-bound tasks have been changed.

This patch updates the comments about these values.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20101014160913.eb24fef4.yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-14 09:13:35 +02:00
Ingo Molnar ed859ed3b0 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: update from -rc5 to -almost-final

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-14 09:11:46 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney b0a0f667a3 sched: suppress RCU lockdep splat in task_fork_fair
> ===================================================
> [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
> ---------------------------------------------------
> /home/greearb/git/linux.wireless-testing/kernel/sched.c:618 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
>
> rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
> 1 lock held by ifup/23517:
>   #0:  (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}, at: [<c042f782>] task_fork_fair+0x3b/0x108
>
> stack backtrace:
> Pid: 23517, comm: ifup Not tainted 2.6.36-rc6-wl+ #5
> Call Trace:
>   [<c075e219>] ? printk+0xf/0x16
>   [<c0455842>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x74/0x7d
>   [<c0426854>] task_group+0x6d/0x79
>   [<c042686e>] set_task_rq+0xe/0x57
>   [<c042f79e>] task_fork_fair+0x57/0x108
>   [<c042e965>] sched_fork+0x82/0xf9
>   [<c04334b3>] copy_process+0x569/0xe8e
>   [<c0433ef0>] do_fork+0x118/0x262
>   [<c076302f>] ? do_page_fault+0x16a/0x2cf
>   [<c044b80c>] ? up_read+0x16/0x2a
>   [<c04085ae>] sys_clone+0x1b/0x20
>   [<c04030a5>] ptregs_clone+0x15/0x30
>   [<c0402f1c>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38

Here a newly created task is having its runqueue assigned.  The new task
is not yet on the tasklist, so cannot go away.  This is therefore a false
positive, suppress with an RCU read-side critical section.

Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com
2010-10-07 10:40:50 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi 58b26c4c02 sched: Increment cache_nice_tries only on periodic lb
scheduler uses cache_nice_tries as an indicator to do cache_hot and
active load balance, when normal load balance fails. Currently,
this value is changed on any failed load balance attempt. That ends
up being not so nice to workloads that enter/exit idle often, as
they do more frequent new_idle balance and that pretty soon results
in cache hot tasks being pulled in.

Making the cache_nice_tries ignore failed new_idle balance seems to
make better sense. With that only the failed load balance in
periodic load balance gets accounted and the rate of accumulation
of cache_nice_tries will not depend on idle entry/exit (short
running sleep-wakeup kind of tasks). This reduces movement of
cache_hot tasks.

schedstat diff (after-before) excerpt from a workload that has
frequent and short wakeup-idle pattern (:2 in cpu col below refers
to NEWIDLE idx) This snapshot was across ~400 seconds.

Without this change:
domainstats:  domain0
 cpu     cnt      bln      fld      imb     gain    hgain  nobusyq  nobusyg
 0:2  306487   219575    73167  110069413    44583    19070     1172   218403
 1:2  292139   194853    81421  120893383    50745    21902     1259   193594
 2:2  283166   174607    91359  129699642    54931    23688     1287   173320
 3:2  273998   161788    93991  132757146    57122    24351     1366   160422
 4:2  289851   215692    62190  83398383    36377    13680      851   214841
 5:2  316312   222146    77605  117582154    49948    20281      988   221158
 6:2  297172   195596    83623  122133390    52801    21301      929   194667
 7:2  283391   178078    86378  126622761    55122    22239      928   177150
 8:2  297655   210359    72995  110246694    45798    19777     1125   209234
 9:2  297357   202011    79363  119753474    50953    22088     1089   200922
10:2  278797   178703    83180  122514385    52969    22726     1128   177575
11:2  272661   167669    86978  127342327    55857    24342     1195   166474
12:2  293039   204031    73211  110282059    47285    19651      948   203083
13:2  289502   196762    76803  114712942    49339    20547     1016   195746
14:2  264446   169609    78292  115715605    50459    21017      982   168627
15:2  260968   163660    80142  116811793    51483    21281     1064   162596

With this change:
domainstats:  domain0
 cpu     cnt      bln      fld      imb     gain    hgain  nobusyq  nobusyg
 0:2  272347   187380    77455  105420270    24975        1      953   186427
 1:2  267276   172360    86234  116242264    28087        6     1028   171332
 2:2  259769   156777    93281  123243134    30555        1     1043   155734
 3:2  250870   143129    97627  127370868    32026        6     1188   141941
 4:2  248422   177116    64096  78261112    22202        2      757   176359
 5:2  275595   180683    84950  116075022    29400        6      778   179905
 6:2  262418   162609    88944  119256898    31056        4      817   161792
 7:2  252204   147946    92646  122388300    32879        4      824   147122
 8:2  262335   172239    81631  110477214    26599        4      864   171375
 9:2  261563   164775    88016  117203621    28331        3      849   163926
10:2  243389   140949    93379  121353071    29585        2      909   140040
11:2  242795   134651    98310  124768957    30895        2     1016   133635
12:2  255234   166622    79843  104696912    26483        4      746   165876
13:2  244944   151595    83855  109808099    27787        3      801   150794
14:2  241301   140982    89935  116954383    30403        6      845   140137
15:2  232271   128564    92821  119185207    31207        4     1416   127148

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1284167957-3675-1-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-21 13:57:11 +02:00
Suresh Siddha f6c3f1686e sched: Fix nohz balance kick
There's a situation where the nohz balancer will try to wake itself:

cpu-x is idle which is also ilb_cpu
got a scheduler tick during idle
and the nohz_kick_needed() in trigger_load_balance() checks for
rq_x->nr_running which might not be zero (because of someone waking a
task on this rq etc) and this leads to the situation of the cpu-x
sending a kick to itself.

And this can cause a lockup.

Avoid this by not marking ourself eligible for kicking.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1284400941.2684.19.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-21 13:50:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0bf377bbb0 sched: Improve latencies under load by decreasing minimum scheduling granularity
Mathieu reported bad latencies with make -j10 kind of kbuild
workloads - which is mostly caused by us scheduling with a
too coarse granularity.

Reduce the minimum granularity some more, to make sure we
can meet the latency target.

I got the following results (make -j10 kbuild load, average of 3
runs):

 vanilla:

  maximum latency: 38278.9 µs
  average latency:  7730.1 µs

 patched:

  maximum latency: 22702.1 µs
  average latency:  6684.8 µs

Mathieu also measured it:

|
| * wakeup-latency.c (SIGEV_THREAD) with make -j10
|
| - Mainline 2.6.35.2 kernel
|
| maximum latency: 45762.1 µs
| average latency: 7348.6 µs
|
| - With only Peter's smaller min_gran (shown below):
|
| maximum latency: 29100.6 µs
| average latency: 6684.1 µs
|

Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTi=8m4g01wZPacySoF7U0PevTNVgJoZZrHiUD-pN@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-13 20:17:11 +02:00
Linus Torvalds aad1830e6b 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:
  x86, tsc: Fix a preemption leak in restore_sched_clock_state()
  sched: Move sched_avg_update() to update_cpu_load()
2010-09-11 07:59:49 -07:00
Suresh Siddha da2b71edd8 sched: Move sched_avg_update() to update_cpu_load()
Currently sched_avg_update() (which updates rt_avg stats in the rq)
is getting called from scale_rt_power() (in the load balance context)
which doesn't take rq->lock.

Fix it by moving the sched_avg_update() to more appropriate
update_cpu_load() where the CFS load gets updated as well.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1282596171.2694.3.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 20:39:33 +02:00
Andi Kleen b3bd3de66f gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings
No real bugs I believe, just some dead code.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-05 14:36:58 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 861d034ee8 sched: Fix rq->clock synchronization when migrating tasks
sched_fork() -- we do task placement in ->task_fork_fair() ensure we
  update_rq_clock() so we work with current time. We leave the vruntime
  in relative state, so the time delay until wake_up_new_task() doesn't
  matter.

wake_up_new_task() -- Since task_fork_fair() left p->vruntime in
  relative state we can safely migrate, the activate_task() on the
  remote rq will call update_rq_clock() and causes the clock to be
  synced (enough).

Tested-by: Jack Daniel <wanders.thirst@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Philby John <pjohn@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1281002322.1923.1708.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-20 14:59:01 +02:00
Ingo Molnar dca45ad8af Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: Move from the -rc3 to the almost-rc6 base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-21 21:45:08 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra bbc8cb5bae sched: Reduce update_group_power() calls
Currently we update cpu_power() too often, update_group_power() only
updates the local group's cpu_power but it gets called for all groups.

Furthermore, CPU_NEWLY_IDLE invocations will result in all cpus
calling it, even though a slow update of cpu_power is sufficient.

Therefore move the update under 'idle != CPU_NEWLY_IDLE &&
local_group' to reduce superfluous invocations.

Reported-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1278612989.1900.176.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-17 12:05:14 +02:00
Suresh Siddha 5343bdb8fd sched: Update rq->clock for nohz balanced cpus
Suresh spotted that we don't update the rq->clock in the nohz
load-balancer path.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1278626014.2834.74.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-17 12:02:08 +02:00
Michael Neuling 2ec57d448b sched: Fix spelling of sibling
No logic changes, only spelling.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <15249.1277776921@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-29 10:44:29 +02:00
Daniel J Blueman f3b577dec1 rcu: apply RCU protection to wake_affine()
The task_group() function returns a pointer that must be protected
by either RCU, the ->alloc_lock, or the cgroup lock (see the
rcu_dereference_check() in task_subsys_state(), which is invoked by
task_group()).  The wake_affine() function currently does none of these,
which means that a concurrent update would be within its rights to free
the structure returned by task_group().  Because wake_affine() uses this
structure only to compute load-balancing heuristics, there is no reason
to acquire either of the two locks.

Therefore, this commit introduces an RCU read-side critical section that
starts before the first call to task_group() and ends after the last use
of the "tg" pointer returned from task_group().  Thanks to Li Zefan for
pointing out the need to extend the RCU read-side critical section from
that proposed by the original patch.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-06-23 06:50:44 -07:00
Michael Neuling b6b1229440 sched: Fix comments to make them DocBook happy
Docbook fails in sched_fair.c due to comments added in the asymmetric
packing patch series.

This fixes these errors. No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <24737.1276135581@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18 10:46:55 +02:00
Michael Neuling 694f5a1112 sched: Fix fix_small_capacity
The CPU power test is the wrong way around in fix_small_capacity.

This was due to a small changes made in the posted patch on lkml to what
was was taken upstream.

This patch fixes asymmetric packing for POWER7.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <12629.1276124617@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18 10:46:54 +02:00