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2009-09-07sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair()Peter Zijlstra
select_task_rq_fair() incorrectly skips the wake_affine() logic, remove this. When prev_cpu == this_cpu, the code jumps straight to the wake_idle() logic, this doesn't give the wake_affine() logic the chance to pin the task to this cpu. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-02sched: Add wait, sleep and iowait accounting tracepointsPeter Zijlstra
Add 3 schedstat tracepoints to help account for wait-time, sleep-time and iowait-time. They can also be used as a perf-counter source to profile tasks on these clocks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> [ build fix for the !CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS case ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-02sched: Provide iowait countersArjan van de Ven
For counting how long an application has been waiting for (disk) IO, there currently is only the HZ sample driven information available, while for all other counters in this class, a high resolution version is available via CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS. In order to make an improved bootchart tool possible, we also need a higher resolution version of the iowait time. This patch below adds this scheduler statistic to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4A64B813.1080506@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-02sched: Add debug check to task_of()Peter Zijlstra
A frequent mistake appears to be to call task_of() on a scheduler entity that is not actually a task, which can result in a wild pointer. Add a check to catch these mistakes. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-02sched: Fully integrate cpus_active_map and root-domain codeGregory Haskins
Reflect "active" cpus in the rq->rd->online field, instead of the online_map. The motivation is that things that use the root-domain code (such as cpupri) only care about cpus classified as "active" anyway. By synchronizing the root-domain state with the active map, we allow several optimizations. For instance, we can remove an extra cpumask_and from the scheduler hotpath by utilizing rq->rd->online (since it is now a cached version of cpu_active_map & rq->rd->span). Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090730145723.25226.24493.stgit@dev.haskins.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-02sched: Fix latencytop and sleep profiling vs group schedulingPeter Zijlstra
The latencytop and sleep accounting code assumes that any scheduler entity represents a task, this is not so. Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-18sched: Account for vruntime wrappingFabio Checconi
I spotted two sites that didn't take vruntime wrap-around into account. Fix these by creating a comparison helper that does do so. Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-11sched: Fix bug in SCHED_IDLE interaction with group schedulingPaul Turner
One of the isolation modifications for SCHED_IDLE is the unitization of sleeper credit. However the check for this assumes that the sched_entity we're placing always belongs to a task. This is potentially not true with group scheduling and leaves us rummaging randomly when we try to pull the policy. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907101649570.29914@kitami.corp.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-17sched: Fix out of scope variable access in sched_slice()Christian Engelmayer
Access to local variable lw is aliased by usage of pointer load. Access to pointer load in calc_delta_mine() happens when lw is already out of scope. [ Reported by static code analysis. ] Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <christian.engelmayer@frequentis.com> LKML-Reference: <20090616103512.0c846e51@frequentis.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09sched: remove redundant hierarchy walk in check_preempt_wakeupPaul Turner
Impact: micro-optimization Under group scheduling we traverse up until we are at common siblings to make the wakeup comparison on. At this point however, they should have the same parent so continuing to check up the tree is redundant. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904081520320.30317@kitami.corp.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-15Merge branch 'sched/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc5' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-11sched: revert recent sync wakeup changesPeter Zijlstra
Intel reported a 10% regression (mysql+sysbench) on a 16-way machine with these patches: 1596e29: sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlap d942fb6: sched: fix sync wakeups Revert them. Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Bisected-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-08Merge branches 'sched/rt' and 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-01sched: fix buddie group latencyPeter Zijlstra
Similar to the previous patch, by not clearing buddies we can select entities past their run quota, which can increase latency. This means we have to clear group buddies as well. Do not use the group clear for pick_next_task(), otherwise that'll get O(n^2). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01sched: clear buddies more aggressivelyMike Galbraith
It was noticed that a task could get re-elected past its run quota due to buddy affinities. This could increase latency a little. Cure it by more aggresively clearing buddy state. We do so in two situations: - when we force preempt - when we select a buddy to run Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01sched: fix sync wakeupsPeter Zijlstra
Pawel Dziekonski reported that the openssl benchmark and his quantum chemistry application both show slowdowns due to the scheduler under-parallelizing execution. The reason are pipe wakeups still doing 'sync' wakeups which overrides the normal buddy wakeup logic - even if waker and wakee are loosely coupled. Fix an inversion of logic in the buddy wakeup code. Reported-by: Pawel Dziekonski <dzieko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15sched: sched_slice() fixletLin Ming
Mike's change: 0a582440f "sched: fix sched_slice())" broke group scheduling by forgetting to reload cfs_rq on each loop. This patch fixes aim7 regression and specjbb2005 regression becomes less than 1.5% on 8-core stokley. Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Jayson King <dev@jaysonking.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15sched: fix update_min_vruntimePeter Zijlstra
Impact: fix SCHED_IDLE latency problems OK, so we have 1 running task A (which is obviously curr and the tree is equally obviously empty). 'A' nicely chugs along, doing its thing, carrying min_vruntime along as it goes. Then some whacko speed freak SCHED_IDLE task gets inserted due to SMP balancing, which is very likely far right, in that case update_curr update_min_vruntime cfs_rq->rb_leftmost := true (the crazy task sitting in a tree) vruntime = se->vruntime and voila, min_vruntime is waaay right of where it ought to be. OK, so why did I write it like that to begin with... Aah, yes. Say we've just dequeued current schedule deactivate_task(prev) dequeue_entity update_min_vruntime Then we'll set vruntime = cfs_rq->min_vruntime; we find !cfs_rq->curr, but do find someone in the tree. Then we _must_ do vruntime = se->vruntime, because vruntime = min_vruntime(vruntime := cfs_rq->min_vruntime, se->vruntime) will not advance vruntime, and cause lags the other way around (which we fixed with that initial patch: 1af5f730fc1bf7c62ec9fb2d307206e18bf40a69 (sched: more accurate min_vruntime accounting). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15sched: SCHED_OTHER vs SCHED_IDLE isolationPeter Zijlstra
Stronger SCHED_IDLE isolation: - no SCHED_IDLE buddies - never let SCHED_IDLE preempt on wakeup - always preempt SCHED_IDLE on wakeup - limit SLEEPER fairness for SCHED_IDLE. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15sched: prefer wakersPeter Zijlstra
Prefer tasks that wake other tasks to preempt quickly. This improves performance because more work is available sooner. The workload that prompted this patch was a kernel build over NFS4 (for some curious and not understood reason we had to revert commit: 18de9735300756e3ca9c361ef58409d8561dfe0d to make any progress at all) Without this patch a make -j8 bzImage (of x86-64 defconfig) would take 3m30-ish, with this patch we're down to 2m50-ish. psql-sysbench/mysql-sysbench show a slight improvement in peak performance as well, tbench and vmark seemed to not care. It is possible to improve upon the build time (to 2m20-ish) but that seriously destroys other benchmarks (just shows that there's more room for tinkering). Much thanks to Mike who put in a lot of effort to benchmark things and proved a worthy opponent with a competing patch. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-08generic swap(): sched: remove local swap() macroWu Fengguang
Use the new generic implementation. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.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>
2009-01-05Merge branch 'linus' into sched/urgentIngo Molnar
2009-01-02Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits) x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2 x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0 sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask() x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many() x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c ... Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
2009-01-02sched: fix sched_slice()Mike Galbraith
Impact: fix bad-interactivity buglet Fix sched_slice() to emit a sane result whether a task is currently enqueued or not. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Tested-by: Jayson King <dev@jaysonking.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> kernel/sched_fair.c | 30 ++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
2008-12-19sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packagesVaidyanathan Srinivasan
Impact: tweak task wakeup to save power more agressively Preferred wakeup cpu (from a semi idle package) has been nominated in find_busiest_group() in the previous patch. Use this information in sched_mc_preferred_wakeup_cpu in function wake_idle() to bias task wakeups if the following conditions are satisfied: - The present cpu that is trying to wakeup the process is idle and waking the target process on this cpu will potentially wakeup a completely idle package - The previous cpu on which the target process ran is also idle and hence selecting the previous cpu may wakeup a semi idle cpu package - The task being woken up is allowed to run in the nominated cpu (cpu affinity and restrictions) Basically if both the current cpu and the previous cpu on which the task ran is idle, select the nominated cpu from semi idle cpu package for running the new task that is waking up. Cache hotness is considered since the actual biasing happens in wake_idle() only if the application is cache cold. This technique will effectively move short running bursty jobs in a mostly idle system. Wakeup biasing for power savings gets automatically disabled if system utilisation increases due to the fact that the probability of finding both this_cpu and prev_cpu idle decreases. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16sched: optimize update_curr()Peter Zijlstra
Impact: micro-optimization Skip the hard work when there is none. 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>
2008-12-16sched: fix wakeup preemption clockMike Galbraith
Impact: sharpen the wakeup-granularity to always be against current scheduler time It was possible to do the preemption check against an old time stamp. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert remaining old-style cpumask operatorsRusty Russell
Impact: Trivial API conversion NR_CPUS -> nr_cpu_ids cpumask_t -> struct cpumask sizeof(cpumask_t) -> cpumask_size() cpumask_a = cpumask_b -> cpumask_copy(&cpumask_a, &cpumask_b) cpu_set() -> cpumask_set_cpu() first_cpu() -> cpumask_first() cpumask_of_cpu() -> cpumask_of() cpus_* -> cpumask_* There are some FIXMEs where we all archs to complete infrastructure (patches have been sent): cpu_coregroup_map -> cpu_coregroup_mask node_to_cpumask* -> cpumask_of_node There is also one FIXME where we pass an array of cpumasks to partition_sched_domains(): this implies knowing the definition of 'struct cpumask' and the size of a cpumask. This will be fixed in a future patch. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: wrap sched_group and sched_domain cpumask accesses.Rusty Russell
Impact: trivial wrap of member accesses This eases the transition in the next patch. We also get rid of a temporary cpumask in find_idlest_cpu() thanks to for_each_cpu_and, and sched_balance_self() due to getting weight before setting sd to NULL. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11sched: release buddies on yieldPeter Zijlstra
Clear buddies on yield, so that the buddy rules don't schedule them despite them being placed right-most. This fixed a performance regression with yield-happy binary JVMs. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
2008-11-05sched: fix buddies for group schedulingPeter Zijlstra
Impact: scheduling order fix for group scheduling For each level in the hierarchy, set the buddy to point to the right entity. Therefore, when we do the hierarchical schedule, we have a fair chance of ending up where we meant to. 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>
2008-11-05sched: backward looking buddyPeter Zijlstra
Impact: improve/change/fix wakeup-buddy scheduling Currently we only have a forward looking buddy, that is, we prefer to schedule to the task we last woke up, under the presumption that its going to consume the data we just produced, and therefore will have cache hot benefits. This allows co-waking producer/consumer task pairs to run ahead of the pack for a little while, keeping their cache warm. Without this, we would interleave all pairs, utterly trashing the cache. This patch introduces a backward looking buddy, that is, suppose that in the above scenario, the consumer preempts the producer before it can go to sleep, we will therefore miss the wakeup from consumer to producer (its already running, after all), breaking the cycle and reverting to the cache-trashing interleaved schedule pattern. The backward buddy will try to schedule back to the task that woke us up in case the forward buddy is not available, under the assumption that the last task will be the one with the most cache hot task around barring current. This will basically allow a task to continue after it got preempted. In order to avoid starvation, we allow either buddy to get wakeup_gran ahead of the pack. 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>
2008-11-05sched: fix fair preempt checkPeter Zijlstra
Impact: fix cross-class preemption Inter-class wakeup preemptions should go on class order. 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>
2008-11-05sched: cleanup fair task selectionPeter Zijlstra
Impact: cleanup Clean up task selection 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>
2008-10-24sched: virtual time buddy preemptionPeter Zijlstra
Since we moved wakeup preemption back to virtual time, it makes sense to move the buddy stuff back as well. The purpose of the buddy scheduling is to allow a quickly scheduling pair of tasks to run away from the group as far as a regular busy task would be allowed under wakeup preemption. This has the advantage that the pair can ping-pong for a while, enjoying cache-hotness. Without buddy scheduling other tasks would interleave destroying the cache. Also, it saves a word in cfs_rq. 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>
2008-10-24sched: re-instate vruntime based wakeup preemptionPeter Zijlstra
The advantage is that vruntime based wakeup preemption has a better conceptual model. Here wakeup_gran = 0 means: preempt when 'fair'. Therefore wakeup_gran is the granularity of unfairness we allow in order to make progress. 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>
2008-10-24sched: weaken sync hintMike Galbraith
Mysql+oltp and pgsql+oltp peaks are still shifted right. The below puts the peaks back to 1 client/server pair per core. Use the avg_overlap information to weaken the sync hint. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-24sched: more accurate min_vruntime accountingPeter Zijlstra
Mike noticed the current min_vruntime tracking can go wrong and skip the current task. If the only remaining task in the tree is a nice 19 task with huge vruntime, new tasks will be inserted too far to the right too, causing some interactibity issues. min_vruntime can only change due to the leftmost entry disappearing (dequeue_entity()), or by the leftmost entry being incremented past the next entry, which elects a new leftmost (__update_curr()) Due to the current entry not being part of the actual tree, we have to compare the leftmost tree entry with the current entry, and take the leftmost of these two. So create a update_min_vruntime() function that takes computes the leftmost vruntime in the system (either tree of current) and increases the cfs_rq->min_vruntime if the computed value is larger than the previously found min_vruntime. And call this from the two sites we've identified that can change min_vruntime. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> 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>
2008-10-24Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc1' into sched/urgentIngo Molnar
2008-10-23Merge 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: disable the hrtick for now sched: revert back to per-rq vruntime sched: fair scheduler should not resched rt tasks sched: optimize group load balancer sched: minor fast-path overhead reduction sched: fix the wrong mask_len, cleanup sched: kill unused scheduler decl. sched: fix the wrong mask_len sched: only update rq->clock while holding rq->lock
2008-10-22sched: add CONFIG_SMP consistencyLi Zefan
a patch from Henrik Austad did this: >> Do not declare select_task_rq as part of sched_class when CONFIG_SMP is >> not set. Peter observed: > While a proper cleanup, could you do it by re-arranging the methods so > as to not create an additional ifdef? Do not declare select_task_rq and some other methods as part of sched_class when CONFIG_SMP is not set. Also gather those methods to avoid CONFIG_SMP mess. Idea-by: Henrik Austad <henrik.austad@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20sched: revert back to per-rq vruntimePeter Zijlstra
Vatsa rightly points out that having the runqueue weight in the vruntime calculations can cause unfairness in the face of task joins/leaves. Suppose: dv = dt * rw / w Then take 10 tasks t_n, each of similar weight. If the first will run 1 then its vruntime will increase by 10. Now, if the next 8 tasks leave after having run their 1, then the last task will get a vruntime increase of 2 after having run 1. Which will leave us with 2 tasks of equal weight and equal runtime, of which one will not be scheduled for 8/2=4 units of time. Ergo, we cannot do that and must use: dv = dt / w. This means we cannot have a global vruntime based on effective priority, but must instead go back to the vruntime per rq model we started out with. This patch was lightly tested by doing starting while loops on each nice level and observing their execution time, and a simple group scenario of 1:2:3 pinned to a single cpu. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20sched: fair scheduler should not resched rt tasksPeter Zijlstra
With use of ftrace Steven noticed that some RT tasks got rescheduled due to sched_fair interaction. What happens is that we reprogram the hrtick from enqueue/dequeue_fair_task() because that can change nr_running, and thus a current tasks ideal runtime. However, its possible the current task isn't a fair_sched_class task, and thus doesn't have a hrtick set to change. Fix this by wrapping those hrtick_start_fair() calls in a hrtick_update() function, which will check for the right conditions. Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', ↵Thomas Gleixner
'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/debug' into v28-timers-for-linus
2008-10-17sched: minor fast-path overhead reductionMike Galbraith
Greetings, 103638d added a bit of avoidable overhead to the fast-path. Use sysctl_sched_min_granularity instead of sched_slice() to restrict buddy wakeups. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-08sched: sync wakeups vs avg_overlapPeter Zijlstra
While looking at the code I wondered why we always do: sync && avg_overlap < migration_cost Which is a bit odd, since the overlap test was meant to detect sync wakeups so using it to specialize sync wakeups doesn't make much sense. Hence change the code to do: sync || avg_overlap < migration_cost Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-30sched: minor optimizations in wake_affine and select_task_rq_fairAmit K. Arora
This patch does following: o Removes unused variable and argument "rq". o Optimizes one of the "if" conditions in wake_affine() - i.e. if "balanced" is true, we need not do rest of the calculations in the condition. o If this cpu is same as the previous cpu (on which woken up task was running when it went to sleep), no need to call wake_affine at all. Signed-off-by: Amit K Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-25sched: maintain only task entities in cfs_rq->tasks listBharata B Rao
cfs_rq->tasks list is used by the load balancer to iterate over all the tasks. Currently it holds all the entities (both task and group entities) because of which there is a need to check for group entities explicitly during load balancing. This patch changes the cfs_rq->tasks list to hold only task entities. Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: fixup buddy selectionPeter Zijlstra
We should set the buddy even though we might already have the TIF_RESCHED flag set. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: fixlet for group load balancePeter Zijlstra
We should not only correct the increment for the initial group, but should be consistent and do so for all the groups we encounter. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>