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2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from update_curr_load()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from update_curr_load(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->task_new()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->task_new(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->put_prev_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->put_prev_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from pick_next_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from pick_next_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->pick_next_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->pick_next_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->dequeue_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->dequeue_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->enqueue_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->enqueue_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove 'now' use from assignmentsIngo Molnar
change all 'now' timestamp uses in assignments to rq->clock. ( this is an identity transformation that causes no functionality change: all such new rq->clock is necessarily preceded by an update_rq_clock() call. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove __rq_clock()Ingo Molnar
remove the (now unused) __rq_clock() function. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: eliminate __rq_clock() useIngo Molnar
eliminate __rq_clock() use by changing it to: __update_rq_clock(rq) now = rq->clock; identity transformation - no change in behavior. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove rq_clock()Ingo Molnar
remove the now unused rq_clock() function. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: eliminate rq_clock() useIngo Molnar
eliminate rq_clock() use by changing it to: update_rq_clock(rq) now = rq->clock; identity transformation - no change in behavior. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: add [__]update_rq_clock(rq)Ingo Molnar
add the [__]update_rq_clock(rq) functions. (No change in functionality, just reorganization to prepare for elimination of the heavy 64-bit timestamp-passing in the scheduler.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: fix bug in balance_tasks()Peter Williams
There are two problems with balance_tasks() and how it used: 1. The variables best_prio and best_prio_seen (inherited from the old move_tasks()) were only required to handle problems caused by the active/expired arrays, the order in which they were processed and the possibility that the task with the highest priority could be on either. These issues are no longer present and the extra overhead associated with their use is unnecessary (and possibly wrong). 2. In the absence of CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED being set, the same this_best_prio variable needs to be used by all scheduling classes or there is a risk of moving too much load. E.g. if the highest priority task on this at the beginning is a fairly low priority task and the rt class migrates a task (during its turn) then that moved task becomes the new highest priority task on this_rq but when the sched_fair class initializes its copy of this_best_prio it will get the priority of the original highest priority task as, due to the run queue locks being held, the reschedule triggered by pull_task() will not have taken place. This could result in inappropriate overriding of skip_for_load and excessive load being moved. The attached patch addresses these problems by deleting all reference to best_prio and best_prio_seen and making this_best_prio a reference parameter to the various functions involved. load_balance_fair() has also been modified so that this_best_prio is only reset (in the loop) if CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is set. This should preserve the effect of helping spread groups' higher priority tasks around the available CPUs while improving system performance when CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED isn't set. Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove binary sysctls from kernel.sched_domainAlexey Dobriyan
kernel.sched_domain hierarchy is under CTL_UNNUMBERED and thus unreachable to sysctl(2). Generating .ctl_number's in such situation is not useful. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: schedule() speedupIngo Molnar
speed up schedule(): share the 'now' parameter that deactivate_task() was calculating internally. ( this also fixes the small accounting window between the deactivate call and the pick_next_task() call. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: uninline rq_clock()Ingo Molnar
uninline rq_clock() to save 263 bytes of code: text data bss dec hex filename 39561 3642 24 43227 a8db sched.o.before 39298 3642 24 42964 a7d4 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: clean up sched_getaffinity()Ulrich Drepper
here's another tiny cleanup. The generated code is not affected (gcc is smart enough) but for people looking over the code it is just irritating to have the extra conditional. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: simplify move_tasks()Peter Williams
The move_tasks() function is currently multiplexed with two distinct capabilities: 1. attempt to move a specified amount of weighted load from one run queue to another; and 2. attempt to move a specified number of tasks from one run queue to another. The first of these capabilities is used in two places, load_balance() and load_balance_idle(), and in both of these cases the return value of move_tasks() is used purely to decide if tasks/load were moved and no notice of the actual number of tasks moved is taken. The second capability is used in exactly one place, active_load_balance(), to attempt to move exactly one task and, as before, the return value is only used as an indicator of success or failure. This multiplexing of sched_task() was introduced, by me, as part of the smpnice patches and was motivated by the fact that the alternative, one function to move specified load and one to move a single task, would have led to two functions of roughly the same complexity as the old move_tasks() (or the new balance_tasks()). However, the new modular design of the new CFS scheduler allows a simpler solution to be adopted and this patch addresses that solution by: 1. adding a new function, move_one_task(), to be used by active_load_balance(); and 2. making move_tasks() a single purpose function that tries to move a specified weighted load and returns 1 for success and 0 for failure. One of the consequences of these changes is that neither move_one_task() or the new move_tasks() care how many tasks sched_class.load_balance() moves and this enables its interface to be simplified by returning the amount of load moved as its result and removing the load_moved pointer from the argument list. This helps simplify the new move_tasks() and slightly reduces the amount of work done in each of sched_class.load_balance()'s implementations. Further simplification, e.g. changes to balance_tasks(), are possible but (slightly) complicated by the special needs of load_balance_fair() so I've left them to a later patch (if this one gets accepted). NB Since move_tasks() gets called with two run queue locks held even small reductions in overhead are worthwhile. [ mingo@elte.hu ] this change also reduces code size nicely: text data bss dec hex filename 39216 3618 24 42858 a76a sched.o.before 39173 3618 24 42815 a73f sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: reorder update_cpu_load(rq) with the ->task_tick() callIngo Molnar
Peter Williams suggested to flip the order of update_cpu_load(rq) with the ->task_tick() call. This is a NOP for the current scheduler (the two functions are independent of each other), ->task_tick() might create some state for update_cpu_load() in the future (or in PlugSched). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-02[PATCH] sched: reduce debug codeIngo Molnar
move the rest of the debugging/instrumentation code to under CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS too. This reduces code size and speeds code up: text data bss dec hex filename 33044 4122 28 37194 914a sched.o.before 32708 4122 28 36858 8ffa sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-02[PATCH] sched: move load-calculation functionsIngo Molnar
move load-calculation functions so that they can use the per-policy declarations and methods. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-02[PATCH] sched: ->task_new cleanupIngo Molnar
make sched_class.task_new == NULL a 'default method', this allows the removal of task_rt_new. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-02[PATCH] sched: uninline inc/dec_nr_running()Ingo Molnar
uninline inc_nr_running() and dec_nr_running(): text data bss dec hex filename 29039 4162 24 33225 81c9 sched.o.before 29027 4162 24 33213 81bd sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-02[PATCH] sched: uninline calc_delta_mine()Ingo Molnar
uninline calc_delta_mine(): text data bss dec hex filename 29162 4162 24 33348 8244 sched.o.before 29039 4162 24 33225 81c9 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-02[PATCH] sched: calc_delta_mine(): use fixed limitIngo Molnar
use fixed limit in calc_delta_mine() - this saves an instruction :) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-02[PATCH] sched: tidy up left over smpnice codePeter Williams
1. The only place that RTPRIO_TO_LOAD_WEIGHT() is used is in the call to move_tasks() in the function active_load_balance() and its purpose here is just to make sure that the load to be moved is big enough to ensure that exactly one task is moved (if there's one available). This can be accomplished by using ULONG_MAX instead and this allows RTPRIO_TO_LOAD_WEIGHT() to be deleted. 2. This, in turn, allows PRIO_TO_LOAD_WEIGHT() to be deleted. 3. This allows load_weight() to be deleted which allows TIME_SLICE_NICE_ZERO to be deleted along with the comment above it. Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-02[PATCH] sched: remove cache_hot_timeIngo Molnar
remove the last unused remains of cache_hot_time. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-31sched: fix kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warnings in sched.c: Warning(linux-2623-rc1g4//kernel/sched.c:1685): No description found for parameter 'notifier' Warning(linux-2623-rc1g4//kernel/sched.c:1696): No description found for parameter 'notifier' Warning(linux-2623-rc1g4//kernel/sched.c:1750): No description found for parameter 'prev' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26[PATCH] sched: debug feature - make the sched-domains tree runtime-tweakableNick Piggin
debugging feature: make the sched-domains tree runtime-tweakable. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ mingo@elte.hu: made it depend on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG & small updates ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-26[PATCH] sched: make cpu_clock() not use the rq clockIngo Molnar
it is enough to disable interrupts to get the precise rq-clock of the local CPU. this also solves an NMI watchdog regression: the NMI watchdog calls touch_softlockup_watchdog(), which might deadlock on rq->lock if the NMI hits an rq-locked critical section. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-26[PATCH] sched: remove unused rq->load_balance_classSatoru Takeuchi
Remove unused rq->load_balance_class. Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-26[PATCH] sched: arch preempt notifier mechanismAvi Kivity
This adds a general mechanism whereby a task can request the scheduler to notify it whenever it is preempted or scheduled back in. This allows the task to swap any special-purpose registers like the fpu or Intel's VT registers. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> [ mingo@elte.hu: fixes, cleanups ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-19[PATCH] sched: implement cpu_clock(cpu) high-speed time sourceIngo Molnar
Implement the cpu_clock(cpu) interface for kernel-internal use: high-speed (but slightly incorrect) per-cpu clock constructed from sched_clock(). This API, unused at the moment, will be used in the future by blktrace, by the softlockup-watchdog, by printk and by lockstat. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-19[PATCH] sched: fix the all pinned logic in load_balance_newidle()Suresh Siddha
nr_moved is not the correct check for triggering all pinned logic. Fix the all pinned logic in the case of load_balance_newidle(). Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-19[PATCH] sched: fix newly idle load balance in case of SMTSuresh Siddha
In the presence of SMT, newly idle balance was never happening for multi-core and SMP domains (even when both the logical siblings are idle). If thread 0 is already idle and when thread 1 is about to go to idle, newly idle load balance always think that one of the threads is not idle and skips doing the newly idle load balance for multi-core and SMP domains. This is because of the idle_cpu() macro, which checks if the current process on a cpu is an idle process. But this is not the case for the thread doing the load_balance_newidle(). Fix this by using runqueue's nr_running field instead of idle_cpu(). And also skip the logic of 'only one idle cpu in the group will be doing load balancing' during newly idle case. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-19use the new percpu interface for shared dataFenghua Yu
Currently most of the per cpu data, which is accessed by different cpus, has a ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp attribute. Move all this data to the new per cpu shared data section: .data.percpu.shared_aligned. This will seperate the percpu data which is referenced frequently by other cpus from the local only percpu data. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by defaultRafael J. Wysocki
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16[PATCH] sched: prettify prio_to_wmult[]Ingo Molnar
prettify the prio_to_wmult[] array. (this could have saved us from the typos) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-16[PATCH] sched: document prio_to_wmult[]Ingo Molnar
document prio_to_wmult[]. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-16[PATCH] sched: improve weight-array commentsIngo Molnar
improve the comments around the wmult array (which controls the weight of niced tasks). Clarify that to achieve a 10% difference in CPU utilization, a weight multiplier of 1.25 has to be used. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-13CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult tableThomas Gleixner
Roman Zippel noticed another inconsistency of the wmult table. wmult[16] has a missing digit. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13[PATCH] sched: fix show_task()/show_tasks() outputIngo Molnar
fix show_task()/show_tasks() output: - there's no sibling info anymore - the fields were not aligned properly with the description - get rid of the lazy-TLB output: it's been quite some time since we last had a bug there, and when we had a bug it wasnt helped a bit by this debug output. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13[PATCH] sched: allow larger granularityIngo Molnar
Allow granularity up to 100 msecs, instead of 10 msecs. (needed on larger boxes) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13[PATCH] sched: fix prio_to_wmult[] for nice 1Mike Galbraith
There's a typo in the values in prio_to_wmult[] for nice level 1. While it did not cause bad CPU distribution, but caused more rescheduling between nice-0 and nice-1 tasks than necessary. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-09sched: add CFS creditsIngo Molnar
add credits for recent major scheduler contributions: Con Kolivas, for pioneering the fair-scheduling approach Peter Williams, for smpnice Mike Galbraith, for interactivity tuning of CFS Srivatsa Vaddagiri, for group scheduling enhancements Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: clean up sleep_on() APIsIngo Molnar
clean up the sleep_on() APIs: - do not use fastcall - replace fragile macro magic with proper inline functions Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: style cleanupsIngo Molnar
4 small style cleanups to sched.c: checkpatch.pl is now happy about the totality of sched.c [ignoring false positives] - yay! ;-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: remove unused rq types from sched.cIngo Molnar
remove unused rq types from sched.c, now that we switched over to CFS. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: remove interactivity typesIngo Molnar
remove now unused interactivity-heuristics related defined and types of the old scheduler. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>