When a task is taken out of the fair class we must ensure the vruntime
is properly normalized because when we put it back in it will assume
to be normalized.
The case that goes wrong is when changing away from the fair class
while sleeping. Sleeping tasks have non-normalized vruntime in order
to make sleeper-fairness work. So treat the switch away from fair as a
wakeup and preserve the relative vruntime.
Also update sysrq-n to call the ->switch_{to,from} methods.
Reported-by: Onkalo Samu <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since cfs->{load_stamp,load_last} are zero-initalized the initial load update
will consider the delta to be 'since the beginning of time'.
This results in a lot of pointless divisions to bring this large period to be
within the sysctl_sched_shares_window.
Fix this by initializing load_stamp to be 1 at cfs_rq initialization, this
allows for an initial load_stamp > load_last which then lets standard idle
truncation proceed.
We avoid spinning (and slightly improve consistency) by fixing delta to be
[period - 1] in this path resulting in a slightly more predictable shares ramp.
(Previously the amount of idle time preserved by the overflow would range between
[period/2,period-1].)
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110122044852.102126037@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Re-visiting this: Since update_cfs_shares will now only ever re-weight an
entity that is a relative parent of the current entity in enqueue_entity; we
can safely issue the account_entity_enqueue relative to that cfs_rq and avoid
the requirement for special handling of the enqueue case in update_cfs_shares.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110122044851.915214637@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
* '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
...
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
> ===================================================
> [ 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
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>
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>
* '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()
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Check to see if the group is packed in a sched doman.
This is primarily intended to used at the sibling level. Some cores
like POWER7 prefer to use lower numbered SMT threads. In the case of
POWER7, it can move to lower SMT modes only when higher threads are
idle. When in lower SMT modes, the threads will perform better since
they share less core resources. Hence when we have idle threads, we
want them to be the higher ones.
This adds a hook into f_b_g() called check_asym_packing() to check the
packing. This packing function is run on idle threads. It checks to
see if the busiest CPU in this domain (core in the P7 case) has a
higher CPU number than what where the packing function is being run
on. If it is, calculate the imbalance and return the higher busier
thread as the busiest group to f_b_g(). Here we are assuming a lower
CPU number will be equivalent to a lower SMT thread number.
It also creates a new SD_ASYM_PACKING flag to enable this feature at
any scheduler domain level.
It also creates an arch hook to enable this feature at the sibling
level. The default function doesn't enable this feature.
Based heavily on patch from Peter Zijlstra.
Fixes from Srivatsa Vaddagiri.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20100608045702.2936CCC897@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Handle cpu capacity being reported as 0 on cores with more number of
hardware threads. For example on a Power7 core with 4 hardware
threads, core power is 1177 and thus power of each hardware thread is
1177/4 = 294. This low power can lead to capacity for each hardware
thread being calculated as 0, which leads to tasks bouncing within the
core madly!
Fix this by reporting capacity for hardware threads as 1, provided
their power is not scaled down significantly because of frequency
scaling or real-time tasks usage of cpu.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100608045702.21D03CC895@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In the new push model, all idle CPUs indeed go into nohz mode. There is
still the concept of idle load balancer (performing the load balancing
on behalf of all the idle cpu's in the system). Busy CPU kicks the nohz
balancer when any of the nohz CPUs need idle load balancing.
The kickee CPU does the idle load balancing on behalf of all idle CPUs
instead of the normal idle balance.
This addresses the below two problems with the current nohz ilb logic:
* the idle load balancer continued to have periodic ticks during idle and
wokeup frequently, even though it did not have any rebalancing to do on
behalf of any of the idle CPUs.
* On x86 and CPUs that have APIC timer stoppage on idle CPUs, this
periodic wakeup can result in a periodic additional interrupt on a CPU
doing the timer broadcast.
Also currently we are migrating the unpinned timers from an idle to the cpu
doing idle load balancing (when all the cpus in the system are idle,
there is no idle load balancing cpu and timers get added to the same idle cpu
where the request was made. So the existing optimization works only on semi idle
system).
And In semi idle system, we no longer have periodic ticks on the idle load
balancer CPU. Using that cpu will add more delays to the timers than intended
(as that cpu's timer base may not be uptodate wrt jiffies etc). This was
causing mysterious slowdowns during boot etc.
For now, in the semi idle case, use the nearest busy cpu for migrating timers
from an idle cpu. This is good for power-savings anyway.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1274486981.2840.46.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
tickless idle has a negative side effect on update_cpu_load(), which
in turn can affect load balancing behavior.
update_cpu_load() is supposed to be called every tick, to keep track
of various load indicies. With tickless idle, there are no scheduler
ticks called on the idle CPUs. Idle CPUs may still do load balancing
(with idle_load_balance CPU) using the stale cpu_load. It will also
cause problems when all CPUs go idle for a while and become active
again. In this case loads would not degrade as expected.
This is how rq->nr_load_updates change looks like under different
conditions:
<cpu_num> <nr_load_updates change>
All CPUS idle for 10 seconds (HZ=1000)
0 1621
10 496
11 139
12 875
13 1672
14 12
15 21
1 1472
2 2426
3 1161
4 2108
5 1525
6 701
7 249
8 766
9 1967
One CPU busy rest idle for 10 seconds
0 10003
10 601
11 95
12 966
13 1597
14 114
15 98
1 3457
2 93
3 6679
4 1425
5 1479
6 595
7 193
8 633
9 1687
All CPUs busy for 10 seconds
0 10026
10 10026
11 10026
12 10026
13 10025
14 10025
15 10025
1 10026
2 10026
3 10026
4 10026
5 10026
6 10026
7 10026
8 10026
9 10026
That is update_cpu_load works properly only when all CPUs are busy.
If all are idle, all the CPUs get way lower updates. And when few
CPUs are busy and rest are idle, only busy and ilb CPU does proper
updates and rest of the idle CPUs will do lower updates.
The patch keeps track of when a last update was done and fixes up
the load avg based on current time.
On one of my test system SPECjbb with warehouse 1..numcpus, patch
improves throughput numbers by ~1% (average of 6 runs). On another
test system (with different domain hierarchy) there is no noticable
change in perf.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTilLtDWQsAUrIxJ6s04WTgmw9GuOODc5AOrYsaR5@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mike reports that since e9e9250b (sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT
tasks), wake_affine() goes funny on RT tasks due to them still having a
!0 weight and wake_affine() still subtracts that from the rq weight.
Since nobody should be using se->weight for RT tasks, set the value to
zero. Also, since we now use ->cpu_power to normalize rq weights to
account for RT cpu usage, add that factor into the imbalance computation.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1275316109.27810.22969.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently migration_thread is serving three purposes - migration
pusher, context to execute active_load_balance() and forced context
switcher for expedited RCU synchronize_sched. All three roles are
hardcoded into migration_thread() and determining which job is
scheduled is slightly messy.
This patch kills migration_thread and replaces all three uses with
cpu_stop. The three different roles of migration_thread() are
splitted into three separate cpu_stop callbacks -
migration_cpu_stop(), active_load_balance_cpu_stop() and
synchronize_sched_expedited_cpu_stop() - and each use case now simply
asks cpu_stop to execute the callback as necessary.
synchronize_sched_expedited() was implemented with private
preallocated resources and custom multi-cpu queueing and waiting
logic, both of which are provided by cpu_stop.
synchronize_sched_expedited_count is made atomic and all other shared
resources along with the mutex are dropped.
synchronize_sched_expedited() also implemented a check to detect cases
where not all the callback got executed on their assigned cpus and
fall back to synchronize_sched(). If called with cpu hotplug blocked,
cpu_stop already guarantees that and the condition cannot happen;
otherwise, stop_machine() would break. However, this patch preserves
the paranoid check using a cpumask to record on which cpus the stopper
ran so that it can serve as a bisection point if something actually
goes wrong theree.
Because the internal execution state is no longer visible,
rcu_expedited_torture_stats() is removed.
This patch also renames cpu_stop threads to from "stopper/%d" to
"migration/%d". The names of these threads ultimately don't matter
and there's no reason to make unnecessary userland visible changes.
With this patch applied, stop_machine() and sched now share the same
resources. stop_machine() is faster without wasting any resources and
sched migration users are much cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Issues in the current select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair()
in the context of a task wake-up:
a) Once we select the idle sibling, we use that domain (spanning the cpu that
the task is currently woken-up and the idle sibling that we found) in our
wake_affine() decisions. This domain is completely different from the
domain(we are supposed to use) that spans the cpu that the task currently
woken-up and the cpu where the task previously ran.
b) We do select_idle_sibling() check only for the cpu that the task is
currently woken-up on. If select_task_rq_fair() selects the previously run
cpu for waking the task, doing a select_idle_sibling() check
for that cpu also helps and we don't do this currently.
c) In the scenarios where the cpu that the task is woken-up is busy but
with its HT siblings are idle, we are selecting the task be woken-up
on the idle HT sibling instead of a core that it previously ran
and currently completely idle. i.e., we are not taking decisions based on
wake_affine() but directly selecting an idle sibling that can cause
an imbalance at the SMT/MC level which will be later corrected by the
periodic load balancer.
Fix this by first going through the load imbalance calculations using
wake_affine() and once we make a decision of woken-up cpu vs previously-ran cpu,
then choose a possible idle sibling for waking up the task on.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1270079265.7835.8.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Dave reported that his large SPARC machines spend lots of time in
hweight64(), try and optimize some of those needless cpumask_weight()
invocations (esp. with the large offstack cpumasks these are very
expensive indeed).
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In order to reduce the dependency on TASK_WAKING rework the enqueue
interface to support a proper flags field.
Replace the int wakeup, bool head arguments with an int flags argument
and create the following flags:
ENQUEUE_WAKEUP - the enqueue is a wakeup of a sleeping task,
ENQUEUE_WAKING - the enqueue has relative vruntime due to
having sched_class::task_waking() called,
ENQUEUE_HEAD - the waking task should be places on the head
of the priority queue (where appropriate).
For symmetry also convert sched_class::dequeue() to a flags scheme.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Oleg noticed a few races with the TASK_WAKING usage on fork.
- since TASK_WAKING is basically a spinlock, it should be IRQ safe
- since we set TASK_WAKING (*) without holding rq->lock it could
be there still is a rq->lock holder, thereby not actually
providing full serialization.
(*) in fact we clear PF_STARTING, which in effect enables TASK_WAKING.
Cure the second issue by not setting TASK_WAKING in sched_fork(), but
only temporarily in wake_up_new_task() while calling select_task_rq().
Cure the first by holding rq->lock around the select_task_rq() call,
this will disable IRQs, this however requires that we push down the
rq->lock release into select_task_rq_fair()'s cgroup stuff.
Because select_task_rq_fair() still needs to drop the rq->lock we
cannot fully get rid of TASK_WAKING.
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Disabling affine wakeups is too horrible to contemplate. Remove the feature flag.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301890.6785.50.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This features has been enabled for quite a while, after testing showed that
easing preemption for light tasks was harmful to high priority threads.
Remove the feature flag.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301675.6785.44.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This feature never earned its keep, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301591.6785.42.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Our preemption model relies too heavily on sleeper fairness to disable it
without dire consequences. Remove the feature, and save a branch or two.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301520.6785.40.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This feature hasn't been enabled in a long time, remove effectively dead code.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301447.6785.38.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Don't bother with selection when the current cpu is idle. Recent load
balancing changes also make it no longer necessary to check wake_affine()
success before returning the selected sibling, so we now always use it.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301369.6785.36.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Allow LAST_BUDDY to kick in sooner, improving cache utilization as soon as
a second buddy pair arrives on scene. The cost is latency starting to climb
sooner, the tbenefit for tbench 8 on my Q6600 box is ~2%. No detrimental
effects noted in normal idesktop usage.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that we no longer depend on the clock being updated prior to enqueueing
on migratory wakeup, we can clean up a bit, placing calls to update_rq_clock()
exactly where they are needed, ie on enqueue, dequeue and schedule events.
In the case of a freshly enqueued task immediately preempting, we can skip the
update during preemption, as the clock was just updated by the enqueue event.
We also save an unneeded call during a migratory wakeup by not updating the
previous runqueue, where update_curr() won't be invoked.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301199.6785.32.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Both avg_overlap and avg_wakeup had an inherent problem in that their accuracy
was detrimentally affected by cross-cpu wakeups, this because we are missing
the necessary call to update_curr(). This can't be fixed without increasing
overhead in our already too fat fastpath.
Additionally, with recent load balancing changes making us prefer to place tasks
in an idle cache domain (which is good for compute bound loads), communicating
tasks suffer when a sync wakeup, which would enable affine placement, is turned
into a non-sync wakeup by SYNC_LESS. With one task on the runqueue, wake_affine()
rejects the affine wakeup request, leaving the unfortunate where placed, taking
frequent cache misses.
Remove it, and recover some fastpath cycles.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301121.6785.30.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Testing the load which led to this heuristic (nfs4 kbuild) shows that it has
outlived it's usefullness. With intervening load balancing changes, I cannot
see any difference with/without, so recover there fastpath cycles.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301062.6785.29.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Put all statistic fields of sched_entity in one struct, sched_statistics,
and embed it into sched_entity.
This change allows to memset the sched_statistics to 0 when needed (for
instance when forking), avoiding bugs of non initialized fields.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On platforms like dual socket quad-core platform, the scheduler load
balancer is not detecting the load imbalances in certain scenarios. This
is leading to scenarios like where one socket is completely busy (with
all the 4 cores running with 4 tasks) and leaving another socket
completely idle. This causes performance issues as those 4 tasks share
the memory controller, last-level cache bandwidth etc. Also we won't be
taking advantage of turbo-mode as much as we would like, etc.
Some of the comparisons in the scheduler load balancing code are
comparing the "weighted cpu load that is scaled wrt sched_group's
cpu_power" with the "weighted average load per task that is not scaled
wrt sched_group's cpu_power". While this has probably been broken for a
longer time (for multi socket numa nodes etc), the problem got aggrevated
via this recent change:
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| commit f93e65c186
| Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
| Date: Tue Sep 1 10:34:32 2009 +0200
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| sched: Restore __cpu_power to a straight sum of power
|
Also with this change, the sched group cpu power alone no longer reflects
the group capacity that is needed to implement MC, MT performance
(default) and power-savings (user-selectable) policies.
We need to use the computed group capacity (sgs.group_capacity, that is
computed using the SD_PREFER_SIBLING logic in update_sd_lb_stats()) to
find out if the group with the max load is above its capacity and how
much load to move etc.
Reported-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
Initial-Analysis-by: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
[ -v2: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # [2.6.32.x, 2.6.33.x]
LKML-Reference: <1266970432.11588.22.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts: kernel/sched.c
Necessary due to the urgent fixes which conflict with the code move
from sched.c to sched_fair.c
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The ability of enqueueing a task to the head of a SCHED_FIFO priority
list is required to fix some violations of POSIX scheduling policy.
Extend the related functions with a "head" argument.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Carsten Emde <cbe@osadl.org>
Tested-by: Mathias Weber <mathias.weber.mw1@roche.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100120171629.734886007@linutronix.de>
We want to update the sched_group_powers when balance_cpu == this_cpu.
Currently the group powers are updated only if the balance_cpu is the
first CPU in the local group. But balance_cpu = this_cpu could also be
the first idle cpu in the group. Hence fix the place where the group
powers are updated.
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1264017764.5717.127.camel@jschopp-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since all load_balance() callers will have !NULL balance parameters we
can now assume so and remove a few checks.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The two functions: load_balance{,_newidle}() are very similar, with the
following differences:
- rq->lock usage
- sb->balance_interval updates
- *balance check
So remove the load_balance_newidle() call with load_balance(.idle =
CPU_NEWLY_IDLE), explicitly unlock the rq->lock before calling (would be
done by double_lock_balance() anyway), and ignore the other differences
for now.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
load_balance() and load_balance_newidle() look remarkably similar, one
key point they differ in is the condition on when to active balance.
So split out that logic into a separate function.
One side effect is that previously load_balance_newidle() used to fail
and return -1 under these conditions, whereas now it doesn't. I've not
yet fully figured out the whole -1 return case for either
load_balance{,_newidle}().
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since load-balancing can hold rq->locks for quite a long while, allow
breaking out early when there is lock contention.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move code around to get rid of fwd declarations.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Again, since we only iterate the fair class, remove the abstraction.
Since this is the last user of the rq_iterator, remove all that too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since we only ever iterate the fair class, do away with this abstraction.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Take out the sched_class methods for load-balancing.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Straight fwd code movement.
Since non of the load-balance abstractions are used anymore, do away with
them and simplify the code some. In preparation move the code around.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
SD_PREFER_SIBLING is set at the CPU domain level if power saving isn't
enabled, leading to many cache misses on large machines as we traverse
looking for an idle shared cache to wake to. Change the enabler of
select_idle_sibling() to SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES, and enable same at the
sibling domain level.
Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1262612696.15495.15.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/sched: don't expose local functions
The get_rr_interval_* functions are all class methods of
struct sched_class. They are not exported so make them
static.
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <201001132021.53253.hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In order to remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu() we
need to ensure the task is cfs_rq invariant for all callsites.
The simple approach is to substract cfs_rq->min_vruntime from
se->vruntime on dequeue, and add cfs_rq->min_vruntime on
enqueue.
However, this has the downside of breaking FAIR_SLEEPERS since
we loose the old vruntime as we only maintain the relative
position.
To solve this, we observe that we only migrate runnable tasks,
we do this using deactivate_task(.sleep=0) and
activate_task(.wakeup=0), therefore we can restrain the
min_vruntime invariance to that state.
The only other case is wakeup balancing, since we want to
maintain the old vruntime we cannot make it relative on dequeue,
but since we don't migrate inactive tasks, we can do so right
before we activate it again.
This is where we need the new pre-wakeup hook, we need to call
this while still holding the old rq->lock. We could fold it into
->select_task_rq(), but since that has multiple callsites and
would obfuscate the locking requirements, that seems like a
fudge.
This leaves the fork() case, simply make sure that ->task_fork()
leaves the ->vruntime in a relative state.
This covers all cases where set_task_cpu() gets called, and
ensures it sees a relative vruntime.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.191697025@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to
raw_spinlocks.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The normalized values are also recalculated in case the scaling factor
changes.
This patch updates the internally used scheduler tuning values that are
normalized to one cpu in case a user sets new values via sysfs.
Together with patch 2 of this series this allows to let user configured
values scale (or not) to cpu add/remove events taking place later.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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[ v2: fix warning ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As scaling now takes place on all kind of cpu add/remove events a user
that configures values via proc should be able to configure if his set
values are still rescaled or kept whatever happens.
As the comments state that log2 was just a second guess that worked the
interface is not just designed for on/off, but to choose a scaling type.
Currently this allows none, log and linear, but more important it allwos
us to keep the interface even if someone has an even better idea how to
scale the values.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Based on Peter Zijlstras patch suggestion this enables recalculation of
the scheduler tunables in response of a change in the number of cpus. It
also adds a max of eight cpus that are considered in that scaling.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1259579808-11357-2-git-send-email-ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As Nick pointed out, and realized by myself when doing:
sched: Fix balance vs hotplug race
the patch:
sched: for_each_domain() vs RCU
is wrong, sched_domains are freed after synchronize_sched(), which
means disabling preemption is enough.
Reported-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WAKEUP_RUNNING was an experiment, not sure why that ever ended up being
merged...
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra