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2009-11-05Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: Fix kthread_bind() by moving the body of kthread_bind() to sched.c sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL at node level sched: Fix boot crash by zalloc()ing most of the cpu masks sched: Strengthen buddies and mitigate buddy induced latencies
2009-11-03sched: Fix kthread_bind() by moving the body of kthread_bind() to sched.cMike Galbraith
Eric Paris reported that commit f685ceacab07d3f6c236f04803e2f2f0dbcc5afb causes boot time PREEMPT_DEBUG complaints. [ 4.590699] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: rmmod/1314 [ 4.593043] caller is task_hot+0x86/0xd0 Since kthread_bind() messes with scheduler internals, move the body to sched.c, and lock the runqueue. Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Tested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1256813310.7574.3.camel@marge.simson.net> [ v2: fix !SMP build and clean up ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-02sched: Fix boot crash by zalloc()ing most of the cpu masksRusty Russell
I got a boot crash when forcing cpumasks offstack on 32 bit, because find_new_ilb() returned 3 on my UP system (nohz.cpu_mask wasn't zeroed). AFAICT the others need to be zeroed too: only nohz.ilb_grp_nohz_mask is initialized before use. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <200911022037.21282.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: sched: move rq_weight data array out of .percpu percpu: allow pcpu_alloc() to be called with IRQs off
2009-10-29sched: move rq_weight data array out of .percpuJiri Kosina
Commit 34d76c41 introduced percpu array update_shares_data, size of which being proportional to NR_CPUS. Unfortunately this blows up ia64 for large NR_CPUS configuration, as ia64 allows only 64k for .percpu section. Fix this by allocating this array dynamically and keep only pointer to it percpu. The per-cpu handling doesn't impose significant performance penalty on potentially contented path in tg_shares_up(). ... ffffffff8104337c: 65 48 8b 14 25 20 cd mov %gs:0xcd20,%rdx ffffffff81043383: 00 00 ffffffff81043385: 48 c7 c0 00 e1 00 00 mov $0xe100,%rax ffffffff8104338c: 48 c7 45 a0 00 00 00 movq $0x0,-0x60(%rbp) ffffffff81043393: 00 ffffffff81043394: 48 c7 45 a8 00 00 00 movq $0x0,-0x58(%rbp) ffffffff8104339b: 00 ffffffff8104339c: 48 01 d0 add %rdx,%rax ffffffff8104339f: 49 8d 94 24 08 01 00 lea 0x108(%r12),%rdx ffffffff810433a6: 00 ffffffff810433a7: b9 ff ff ff ff mov $0xffffffff,%ecx ffffffff810433ac: 48 89 45 b0 mov %rax,-0x50(%rbp) ffffffff810433b0: bb 00 04 00 00 mov $0x400,%ebx ffffffff810433b5: 48 89 55 c0 mov %rdx,-0x40(%rbp) ... After: ... ffffffff8104337c: 65 8b 04 25 28 cd 00 mov %gs:0xcd28,%eax ffffffff81043383: 00 ffffffff81043384: 48 98 cltq ffffffff81043386: 49 8d bc 24 08 01 00 lea 0x108(%r12),%rdi ffffffff8104338d: 00 ffffffff8104338e: 48 8b 15 d3 7f 76 00 mov 0x767fd3(%rip),%rdx # ffffffff817ab368 <update_shares_data> ffffffff81043395: 48 8b 34 c5 00 ee 6d mov -0x7e921200(,%rax,8),%rsi ffffffff8104339c: 81 ffffffff8104339d: 48 c7 45 a0 00 00 00 movq $0x0,-0x60(%rbp) ffffffff810433a4: 00 ffffffff810433a5: b9 ff ff ff ff mov $0xffffffff,%ecx ffffffff810433aa: 48 89 7d c0 mov %rdi,-0x40(%rbp) ffffffff810433ae: 48 c7 45 a8 00 00 00 movq $0x0,-0x58(%rbp) ffffffff810433b5: 00 ffffffff810433b6: bb 00 04 00 00 mov $0x400,%ebx ffffffff810433bb: 48 01 f2 add %rsi,%rdx ffffffff810433be: 48 89 55 b0 mov %rdx,-0x50(%rbp) ... Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-10-23sched: Strengthen buddies and mitigate buddy induced latenciesMike Galbraith
This patch restores the effectiveness of LAST_BUDDY in preventing pgsql+oltp from collapsing due to wakeup preemption. It also switches LAST_BUDDY to exclusively do what it does best, namely mitigate the effects of aggressive wakeup preemption, which improves vmark throughput markedly, and restores mysql+oltp scalability. Since buddies are about scalability, enable them beginning at the point where we begin expanding sched_latency, namely sched_nr_latency. Previously, buddies were cleared aggressively, which seriously reduced their effectiveness. Not clearing aggressively however, produces a small drop in mysql+oltp throughput immediately after peak, indicating that LAST_BUDDY is actually doing some harm. This is right at the point where X on the desktop in competition with another load wants low latency service. Ergo, do not enable until we need to scale. To mitigate latency induced by buddies, or by a task just missing wakeup preemption, check latency at tick time. Last hunk prevents buddies from stymieing BALANCE_NEWIDLE via CACHE_HOT_BUDDY. Supporting performance tests: tip = v2.6.32-rc5-1497-ga525b32 tipx = NO_GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS NEXT_BUDDY granularity knobs = 31 knobs + 31 buddies tip+x = NO_GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS granularity knobs = 31 knobs (Three run averages except where noted.) vmark: ------ tip 108466 messages per second tip+ 125307 messages per second tip+x 125335 messages per second tipx 117781 messages per second 2.6.31.3 122729 messages per second mysql+oltp: ----------- clients 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 .......................................................................................... tip 9949.89 18690.20 34801.24 34460.04 32682.88 30765.97 28305.27 25059.64 19548.08 tip+ 10013.90 18526.84 34900.38 34420.14 33069.83 32083.40 30578.30 28010.71 25605.47 tipx 9698.71 18002.70 34477.56 33420.01 32634.30 31657.27 29932.67 26827.52 21487.18 2.6.31.3 8243.11 18784.20 34404.83 33148.38 31900.32 31161.90 29663.81 25995.94 18058.86 pgsql+oltp: ----------- clients 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 .......................................................................................... tip 13686.37 26609.25 51934.28 51347.81 49479.51 45312.65 36691.91 26851.57 24145.35 tip+ (1x) 13907.85 27135.87 52951.98 52514.04 51742.52 50705.43 49947.97 48374.19 46227.94 tip+x 13906.78 27065.81 52951.19 52542.59 52176.11 51815.94 50838.90 49439.46 46891.00 tipx 13742.46 26769.81 52351.99 51891.73 51320.79 50938.98 50248.65 48908.70 46553.84 2.6.31.3 13815.35 26906.46 52683.34 52061.31 51937.10 51376.80 50474.28 49394.47 47003.25 Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-14Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: Fix missing kernel-doc notation Revert "x86, timers: Check for pending timers after (device) interrupts" sched: Update the clock of runqueue select_task_rq() selected
2009-10-13Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: cciss: Add cciss_allow_hpsa module parameter cciss: Fix multiple calls to pci_release_regions blk-settings: fix function parameter kernel-doc notation writeback: kill space in debugfs item name writeback: account IO throttling wait as iowait elv_iosched_store(): fix strstrip() misuse cfq-iosched: avoid probable slice overrun when idling cfq-iosched: apply bool value where we return 0/1 cfq-iosched: fix think time allowed for seekers cfq-iosched: fix the slice residual sign cfq-iosched: abstract out the 'may this cfqq dispatch' logic block: use proper BLK_RW_ASYNC in blk_queue_start_tag() block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2 block: get rid of kblock_schedule_delayed_work() cfq-iosched: fix possible problem with jiffies wraparound cfq-iosched: fix issue with rq-rq merging and fifo list ordering
2009-10-12sched: Fix missing kernel-doc notationRandy Dunlap
The following htmldocs warnings: Warning(kernel/sched.c:685): No description found for parameter 'cpu' Warning(kernel/sched.c:3676): No description found for parameter 'sd' Trigger because new parameters were added to update_rq_clock() and update_group_power() without updating the kernel-doc notation. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4AD29070.7070002@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-09sched: Update the clock of runqueue select_task_rq() selectedMike Galbraith
In try_to_wake_up(), we update the runqueue clock, but select_task_rq() may select a different runqueue than the one we updated, leaving the new runqueue's clock stale for a bit. This patch cures occasional huge latencies reported by latencytop when coming out of idle on a mostly idle NO_HZ box. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1255070103.7639.30.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-09writeback: account IO throttling wait as iowaitWu Fengguang
It makes sense to do IOWAIT when someone is blocked due to IO throttle, as suggested by Kame and Peter. There is an old comment for not doing IOWAIT on throttle, however it has been mismatching the code for a long time. If we stop accounting IOWAIT for 2.6.32, it could be an undesirable behavior change. So restore the io_schedule. CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-05sched: Set correct normal_prio and prio values in sched_fork()Peter Williams
normal_prio should be updated if policy changes from RT to SCHED_MORMAL or if static_prio/nice is changed. Some paths through sched_fork() ignore this requirement and may result in normal_prio having an invalid value. Fixing this issue allows the call to effective_prio() in wake_up_new_task() to be removed. Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <f8f46736fd4e7f090ac0.1253774830@mudlark.pw.nest> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-01const: constify remaining file_operationsAlexey Dobriyan
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix KVM] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handlerAlexey Dobriyan
It's unused. It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl shouldn't care about the rest. It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a timeBen Blum
Alter the ss->can_attach and ss->attach functions to be able to deal with a whole threadgroup at a time, for use in cgroup_attach_proc. (This is a pre-patch to cgroup-procs-writable.patch.) Currently, new mode of the attach function can only tell the subsystem about the old cgroup of the threadgroup leader. No subsystem currently needs that information for each thread that's being moved, but if one were to be added (for example, one that counts tasks within a group) this bit would need to be reworked a bit to tell the subsystem the right information. [hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix build] Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers timers: Add tracepoints for timer_list timers cputime: Optimize jiffies_to_cputime(1) itimers: Simplify arm_timer() code a bit itimers: Fix periodic tics precision itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROF Trivial header file include conflicts in kernel/fork.c
2009-09-22cpuidle: fix the menu governor to boost IO performanceArjan van de Ven
Fix the menu idle governor which balances power savings, energy efficiency and performance impact. The reason for a reworked governor is that there have been serious performance issues reported with the existing code on Nehalem server systems. To show this I'm sure Andrew wants to see benchmark results: (benchmark is "fio", "no cstates" is using "idle=poll") no cstates current linux new algorithm 1 disk 107 Mb/s 85 Mb/s 105 Mb/s 2 disks 215 Mb/s 123 Mb/s 209 Mb/s 12 disks 590 Mb/s 320 Mb/s 585 Mb/s In various power benchmark measurements, no degredation was found by our measurement&diagnostics team. Obviously a small percentage more power was used in the "fio" benchmark, due to the much higher performance. While it would be a novel idea to describe the new algorithm in this commit message, I cheaped out and described it in comments in the code instead. [changes since first post: spelling fixes from akpm, review feedback, folded menu-tng into menu.c] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-21Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf: Tidy up after the big rename perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list Manually resolved some fairly trivial conflicts with the tracing tree in include/trace/ftrace.h and kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c.
2009-09-21perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21sched: Simplify sys_sched_rr_get_interval() system callPeter Williams
By removing the need for it to know details of scheduling classes. This allows PlugSched to define orthogonal scheduling classes. Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <06d1b89ee15a0eef82d7.1253496713@mudlark.pw.nest> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20sched: Fix potential NULL derference of doms_curYong Zhang
If CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled but doms_cur alloc failed in arch_init_sched_domains(), doms_cur will move back to fallback_doms. But this time, fallback_doms has not been initialized yet. Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl LKML-Reference: <1252930816-7672-1-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20sched: Fix raciness in runqueue_is_locked()Andrew Morton
runqueue_is_locked() is unavoidably racy due to a poor interface design. It does cpu = get_cpu() ret = some_perpcu_thing(cpu); put_cpu(cpu); return ret; Its return value is unreliable. Fix. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <200909191855.n8JItiko022148@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-17Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (37 commits) sched: Fix SD_POWERSAVING_BALANCE|SD_PREFER_LOCAL vs SD_WAKE_AFFINE sched: Stop buddies from hogging the system sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING sched: Fix TASK_WAKING & loadaverage breakage sched: Disable wakeup balancing sched: Rename flags to wake_flags sched: Clean up the load_idx selection in select_task_rq_fair sched: Optimize cgroup vs wakeup a bit sched: x86: Name old_perf in a unique way sched: Implement a gentler fair-sleepers feature sched: Add SD_PREFER_LOCAL sched: Add a few SYNC hint knobs to play with sched: Fix sync wakeups again sched: Add WF_FORK sched: Rename sync arguments sched: Rename select_task_rq() argument sched: Feature to disable APERF/MPERF cpu_power x86: sched: Provide arch implementations using aperf/mperf x86: Add generic aperf/mperf code x86: Move APERF/MPERF into a X86_FEATURE ... Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h due to nearby addition of amd_get_nb_id() declaration from the EDAC merge.
2009-09-17sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNINGPeter Zijlstra
Create a new wakeup preemption mode, preempt towards tasks that run shorter on avg. It sets next buddy to be sure we actually run the task we preempted for. Test results: root@twins:~# while :; do :; done & [1] 6537 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done & [2] 6538 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done & [3] 6539 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done & [4] 6540 root@twins:/home/peter# ./latt -c4 sleep 4 Entries: 48 (clients=4) Averages: ------------------------------ Max 4750 usec Avg 497 usec Stdev 737 usec root@twins:/home/peter# echo WAKEUP_RUNNING > /debug/sched_features root@twins:/home/peter# ./latt -c4 sleep 4 Entries: 48 (clients=4) Averages: ------------------------------ Max 14 usec Avg 5 usec Stdev 3 usec Disabled by default - needs more testing. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
2009-09-17sched: Fix TASK_WAKING & loadaverage breakageIngo Molnar
Fix this: top - 21:54:00 up 2:59, 1 user, load average: 432512.33, 426421.74, 417432.74 Which happens because we now set TASK_WAKING before activate_task(). Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16sched: Optimize cgroup vs wakeup a bitPeter Zijlstra
We don't need to call update_shares() for each domain we iterate, just got the largets one. However, we should call it before wake_affine() as well, so that that can use up-to-date values too. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15sched: Fix sync wakeups againPeter Zijlstra
The sync argument rename to introduce WF_* broke stuff by missing a local alias for an argument in __wake_up_common, fix it by using the more descriptive wake_flags name. This restores WF_SYNC propagation, which fixes wake_affine() behaviour, which fixes pipe-test. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits) powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas() vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm() percpu: add chunk->base_addr percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[] percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk() percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page percpu: improve boot messages percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking ... Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-15sched: Add WF_FORKPeter Zijlstra
Avoid the cache buddies from biasing the time distribution away from fork()ers. Normally the next buddy will be the preferred scheduling target, but this makes fork()s prefer to run the new child, whereas we prefer to run the parent, since that will generate more work. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15sched: Rename sync argumentsPeter Zijlstra
In order to extend the functions to have more than 1 flag (sync), rename the argument to flags, and explicitly define a WF_ space for individual flags. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15sched: Feature to disable APERF/MPERF cpu_powerPeter Zijlstra
I suspect a feed-back loop between cpuidle and the aperf/mperf cpu_power bits, where when we have idle C-states lower the ratio, which leads to lower cpu_power and then less load, which generates more idle time, etc.. Put in a knob to disable it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15sched: Provide arch_scale_freq_powerPeter Zijlstra
Provide an ach specific hook for cpufreq based scaling of cpu_power. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> [ego@in.ibm.com: spotting bugs] LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15sched: Weaken SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCEPeter Zijlstra
One of the problems of power-saving balancing is that under certain scenarios it is too slow and allows tons of real work to pile up. Avoid this by ignoring the powersave stuff when there's real work to be done. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15sched: Merge select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self()Peter Zijlstra
The problem with wake_idle() is that is doesn't respect things like cpu_power, which means it doesn't deal well with SMT nor the recent RT interaction. To cure this, it needs to do what sched_balance_self() does, which leads to the possibility of merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self(). Modify sched_balance_self() to: - update_shares() when walking up the domain tree, (it only called it for the top domain, but it should have done this anyway), which allows us to remove this ugly bit from try_to_wake_up(). - do wake_affine() on the smallest domain that contains both this (the waking) and the prev (the wakee) cpu for WAKE invocations. Then use the top-down balance steps it had to replace wake_idle(). This leads to the dissapearance of SD_WAKE_BALANCE and SD_WAKE_IDLE_FAR, with SD_WAKE_IDLE replaced with SD_BALANCE_WAKE. SD_WAKE_AFFINE needs SD_BALANCE_WAKE to be effective. Touch all topology bits to replace the old with new SD flags -- platforms might need re-tuning, enabling SD_BALANCE_WAKE conditionally on a NUMA distance seems like a good additional feature, magny-core and small nehalem systems would want this enabled, systems with slow interconnects would not. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15sched: Add TASK_WAKINGPeter Zijlstra
We're going to want to drop rq->lock in try_to_wake_up() for a longer period of time, however we also want to deal with concurrent waking of the same task, which is currently handled by holding rq->lock. So introduce a new TASK state, namely TASK_WAKING, which indicates someone is already waking the task (other wakers will fail p->state & state). We also keep preemption disabled over the whole ttwu(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15sched: Hook sched_balance_self() into sched_class::select_task_rq()Peter Zijlstra
Rather ugly patch to fully place the sched_balance_self() code inside the fair class. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15sched: Move sched_balance_self() into sched_fair.cPeter Zijlstra
Move the sched_balance_self() code into sched_fair.c This facilitates the merger of sched_balance_self() and sched_fair::select_task_rq(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15sched: Move code aroundPeter Zijlstra
In preparation to other code movement, move weighted_cpuload(), source_load() and target_load() before the class includes. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15sched: Fix double_rq_lock() compile warningPeter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-11Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (64 commits) sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now sched: Keep kthreads at default priority sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies sched: Turn off child_runs_first sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork() sched: enable SD_WAKE_IDLE sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine() sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair() sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE sched: Clean up topology.h sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats() sched: Try to deal with low capacity sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks sched: Implement dynamic cpu_power sched: Add smt_gain sched: Update the cpu_power sum during load-balance sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING ...
2009-09-11Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits) rcu: Move end of special early-boot RCU operation earlier rcu: Changes from reviews: avoid casts, fix/add warnings, improve comments rcu: Create rcutree plugins to handle hotplug CPU for multi-level trees rcu: Remove lockdep annotations from RCU's _notrace() API members rcu: Add #ifdef to suppress __rcu_offline_cpu() warning in !HOTPLUG_CPU builds rcu: Add CPU-offline processing for single-node configurations rcu: Add "notrace" to RCU function headers used by ftrace rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU rcu: Simplify rcu_pending()/rcu_check_callbacks() API rcu: Use debugfs_remove_recursive() simplify code. rcu: Merge per-RCU-flavor initialization into pre-existing macro rcu: Fix online/offline indication for rcudata.csv trace file rcu: Consolidate sparse and lockdep declarations in include/linux/rcupdate.h rcu: Renamings to increase RCU clarity rcu: Move private definitions from include/linux/rcutree.h to kernel/rcutree.h rcu: Expunge lingering references to CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU, optimize on !SMP rcu: Delay rcu_barrier() wait until beginning of next CPU-hotunplug operation. rcu: Fix typo in rcu_irq_exit() comment header rcu: Make rcupreempt_trace.c look at offline CPUs ...
2009-09-04sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crashIngo Molnar
This crash: [ 1774.088275] divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 1774.100355] CPU 13 [ 1774.102498] Modules linked in: [ 1774.105631] Pid: 30881, comm: hackbench Not tainted 2.6.31-rc8-tip-01308-g484d664-dirty #1629 X8DTN [ 1774.114807] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81041c38>] [<ffffffff81041c38>] sched_balance_self+0x19b/0x2d4 Triggers because update_group_power() modifies the sd tree and does temporary calculations there - not considering that other CPUs could observe intermediate values, such as the zero initial value. Calculate it in a temporary variable instead. (we need no memory barrier as these are all statistical values anyway) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090904092742.GA11014@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_powerPeter Zijlstra
Its a source of fail, also, now that cpu_power is dynamical, its a waste of time. before: <idle>-0 [000] 132.877936: find_busiest_group: avg_load: 0 group_load: 8241 power: 1 after: bash-1689 [001] 137.862151: find_busiest_group: avg_load: 10636288 group_load: 10387 power: 1 [ v2: build fix from From: Andreas Herrmann ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.425896304@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats()Gautham R Shenoy
sgs.group_capacity can now be 0, if for some reason group->__cpu_power happens to be less than SCHED_LOAD_SCALE/2. In that case, we need the following fix to make it work for update_sd_power_savings_stats(). That's because both sum_nr_running and group_capacity are unsigned longs. Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04sched: Try to deal with low capacityPeter Zijlstra
When the capacity drops low, we want to migrate load away. Allow the load-balancer to remove all tasks when we hit rock bottom. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.342231003@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasksPeter Zijlstra
Keep an average on the amount of time spend on RT tasks and use that fraction to scale down the cpu_power for regular tasks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.287778431@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04sched: Implement dynamic cpu_powerPeter Zijlstra
Recompute the cpu_power for each cpu during load-balance. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.162033479@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04sched: Add smt_gainPeter Zijlstra
The idea is that multi-threading a core yields more work capacity than a single thread, provide a way to express a static gain for threads. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.073345955@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04sched: Update the cpu_power sum during load-balancePeter Zijlstra
In order to prepare for a more dynamic cpu_power, update the group sum while walking the sched domains during load-balance. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083825.985050292@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLINGPeter Zijlstra
Do the placement thing using SD flags. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083825.897028974@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>