sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING

Create a new wakeup preemption mode, preempt towards tasks that run
shorter on avg. It sets next buddy to be sure we actually run the task
we preempted for.

Test results:

 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done &
 [1] 6537
 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done &
 [2] 6538
 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done &
 [3] 6539
 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done &
 [4] 6540

 root@twins:/home/peter# ./latt -c4 sleep 4
 Entries: 48 (clients=4)

 Averages:
 ------------------------------
        Max          4750 usec
        Avg           497 usec
        Stdev         737 usec

 root@twins:/home/peter# echo WAKEUP_RUNNING > /debug/sched_features

 root@twins:/home/peter# ./latt -c4 sleep 4
 Entries: 48 (clients=4)

 Averages:
 ------------------------------
        Max            14 usec
        Avg             5 usec
        Stdev           3 usec

Disabled by default - needs more testing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>

include/linux/sched.h

@@ -1113,6 +1113,8 @@ struct sched_entity {
 	u64			start_runtime;
 	u64			avg_wakeup;
 
+	u64			avg_running;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
 	u64			wait_start;
 	u64			wait_max;

kernel/sched.c

@@ -2458,6 +2458,7 @@ static void __sched_fork(struct task_struct *p)
 	p->se.avg_overlap		= 0;
 	p->se.start_runtime		= 0;
 	p->se.avg_wakeup		= sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity;
+	p->se.avg_running		= 0;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
 	p->se.wait_start			= 0;
@@ -5310,14 +5311,13 @@ static inline void schedule_debug(struct task_struct *prev)
 #endif
 }
 
-static void put_prev_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
+static void put_prev_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
 {
-	if (prev->state == TASK_RUNNING) {
-		u64 runtime = prev->se.sum_exec_runtime;
+	u64 runtime = p->se.sum_exec_runtime - p->se.prev_sum_exec_runtime;
 
-		runtime -= prev->se.prev_sum_exec_runtime;
-		runtime = min_t(u64, runtime, 2*sysctl_sched_migration_cost);
+	update_avg(&p->se.avg_running, runtime);
 
+	if (p->state == TASK_RUNNING) {
 		/*
 		 * In order to avoid avg_overlap growing stale when we are
 		 * indeed overlapping and hence not getting put to sleep, grow
@@ -5327,9 +5327,12 @@ static void put_prev_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
 		 * correlates to the amount of cache footprint a task can
 		 * build up.
 		 */
-		update_avg(&prev->se.avg_overlap, runtime);
+		runtime = min_t(u64, runtime, 2*sysctl_sched_migration_cost);
+		update_avg(&p->se.avg_overlap, runtime);
+	} else {
+		update_avg(&p->se.avg_running, 0);
 	}
-	prev->sched_class->put_prev_task(rq, prev);
+	p->sched_class->put_prev_task(rq, p);
 }
 
 /*

kernel/sched_debug.c

@@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ void proc_sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p, struct seq_file *m)
 	PN(se.sum_exec_runtime);
 	PN(se.avg_overlap);
 	PN(se.avg_wakeup);
+	PN(se.avg_running);
 
 	nr_switches = p->nvcsw + p->nivcsw;
 

kernel/sched_fair.c

@@ -1605,9 +1605,6 @@ static void check_preempt_wakeup(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int wake_
 		return;
 	}
 
-	if (!sched_feat(WAKEUP_PREEMPT))
-		return;
-
 	if ((sched_feat(WAKEUP_SYNC) && sync) ||
 	    (sched_feat(WAKEUP_OVERLAP) &&
 	     (se->avg_overlap < sysctl_sched_migration_cost &&
@@ -1616,6 +1613,17 @@ static void check_preempt_wakeup(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int wake_
 		return;
 	}
 
+	if (sched_feat(WAKEUP_RUNNING)) {
+		if (pse->avg_running < se->avg_running) {
+			set_next_buddy(pse);
+			resched_task(curr);
+			return;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (!sched_feat(WAKEUP_PREEMPT))
+		return;
+
 	find_matching_se(&se, &pse);
 
 	BUG_ON(!pse);

kernel/sched_features.h

@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_SYNC, 0)
  */
 SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_OVERLAP, 0)
 
+/*
+ * Wakeup preemption towards tasks that run short
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_RUNNING, 0)
+
 /*
  * Use the SYNC wakeup hint, pipes and the likes use this to indicate
  * the remote end is likely to consume the data we just wrote, and