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Peter Zijlstra 29cd8bae39 sched: Fix SD_POWERSAVING_BALANCE|SD_PREFER_LOCAL vs SD_WAKE_AFFINE
The SD_POWERSAVING_BALANCE|SD_PREFER_LOCAL code can break out of
the domain iteration early, making us miss the SD_WAKE_AFFINE bits.

Fix this by continuing iteration until there is no need for a
larger domain.

This also cleans up the cgroup stuff a bit, but not having two
update_shares() invocations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-17 10:40:31 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra de69a80be3 sched: Stop buddies from hogging the system
Clear buddies more agressively.

The (theoretical, haven't actually observed any of this) problem is
that when we do not select either buddy in pick_next_entity()
because they are too far ahead of the left-most task, we do not
clear the buddies.

This means that as soon as we service the left-most task, these
same buddies will be tried again on the next schedule. Now if the
left-most task was a pure hog, it wouldn't have done any wakeups
and it wouldn't have set buddies of its own. That leads to the old
buddies dominating, which would lead to bad latencies.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-17 10:40:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ad4b78bbcb 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>
2009-09-17 10:17:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 5a9b86f647 sched: Rename flags to wake_flags
For consistencies sake, rename the argument (again).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16 16:44:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 5158f4e442 sched: Clean up the load_idx selection in select_task_rq_fair
Clean up the code a little.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16 16:44:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 3b64089422 sched: Optimize cgroup vs wakeup a bit
We don't need to call update_shares() for each domain we iterate,
just got the largets one.

However, we should call it before wake_affine() as well, so that
that can use up-to-date values too.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16 16:44:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 51e0304ce6 sched: Implement a gentler fair-sleepers feature
Add back FAIR_SLEEPERS and GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS.

FAIR_SLEEPERS is the old logic: credit sleepers with their sleep time.

GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS dampens this a bit: 50% of their sleep time gets
credited.

The hope here is to still give the benefits of fair-sleepers logic
(quick wakeups, etc.) while not allow them to have 100% of their
sleep time as if they were running.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16 09:05:20 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 59abf02644 sched: Add SD_PREFER_LOCAL
And turn it on for NUMA and MC domains. This improves
locality in balancing decisions by keeping up to
capacity amount of tasks local before looking for idle
CPUs. (and twice the capacity if SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE
is set.)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16 08:42:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra e69b0f1b41 sched: Add a few SYNC hint knobs to play with
Currently we use overlap to weaken the SYNC hint, but allow it to
set the hint as well.

 echo NO_SYNC_WAKEUP > /debug/sched_features
 echo SYNC_MORE > /debug/sched_features

preserves pipe-test behaviour without using the WF_SYNC hint.

Worth playing with on more workloads...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 19:47:23 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra a7558e0105 sched: Add WF_FORK
Avoid the cache buddies from biasing the time distribution away
from fork()ers. Normally the next buddy will be the preferred
scheduling target, but this makes fork()s prefer to run the new
child, whereas we prefer to run the parent, since that will
generate more work.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:31 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7d47872146 sched: Rename sync arguments
In order to extend the functions to have more than 1 flag (sync),
rename the argument to flags, and explicitly define a WF_ space for
individual flags.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 0763a660a8 sched: Rename select_task_rq() argument
In order to be able to rename the sync argument, we need to rename
the current flag argument.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:29 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 78e7ed53c9 sched: Tweak wake_idx
When merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self() we lost
the use of wake_idx, restore that and set them to 0 to make wake
balancing more aggressive.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:07 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra d7c33c4930 sched: Fix task affinity for select_task_rq_fair
While merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self() I made
a mistake that leads to testing the wrong task affinty.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:07 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 83f54960c1 sched: for_each_domain() vs RCU
for_each_domain() uses RCU to serialize the sched_domains, except
it doesn't actually use rcu_read_lock() and instead relies on
disabling preemption -> FAIL.

XXX: audit other sched_domain code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ae154be1f3 sched: Weaken SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE
One of the problems of power-saving balancing is that under certain
scenarios it is too slow and allows tons of real work to pile up.

Avoid this by ignoring the powersave stuff when there's real work
to be done.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c88d591089 sched: Merge select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self()
The problem with wake_idle() is that is doesn't respect things like
cpu_power, which means it doesn't deal well with SMT nor the recent
RT interaction.

To cure this, it needs to do what sched_balance_self() does, which
leads to the possibility of merging select_task_rq_fair() and
sched_balance_self().

Modify sched_balance_self() to:

  - update_shares() when walking up the domain tree,
    (it only called it for the top domain, but it should
     have done this anyway), which allows us to remove
    this ugly bit from try_to_wake_up().

  - do wake_affine() on the smallest domain that contains
    both this (the waking) and the prev (the wakee) cpu for
    WAKE invocations.

Then use the top-down balance steps it had to replace wake_idle().

This leads to the dissapearance of SD_WAKE_BALANCE and
SD_WAKE_IDLE_FAR, with SD_WAKE_IDLE replaced with SD_BALANCE_WAKE.

SD_WAKE_AFFINE needs SD_BALANCE_WAKE to be effective.

Touch all topology bits to replace the old with new SD flags --
platforms might need re-tuning, enabling SD_BALANCE_WAKE
conditionally on a NUMA distance seems like a good additional
feature, magny-core and small nehalem systems would want this
enabled, systems with slow interconnects would not.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 5f3edc1b1e sched: Hook sched_balance_self() into sched_class::select_task_rq()
Rather ugly patch to fully place the sched_balance_self() code
inside the fair class.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:04 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra aaee1203ca sched: Move sched_balance_self() into sched_fair.c
Move the sched_balance_self() code into sched_fair.c

This facilitates the merger of sched_balance_self() and
sched_fair::select_task_rq().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:04 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 3cb63d527f sched: Complete buddy switches
Add a NEXT_BUDDY feature flag to aid in debugging.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra e6b1b2c9c0 sched: Split WAKEUP_OVERLAP
It consists of two conditions, split them out in separate toggles
so we can test them independently.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar e1f8450854 sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field
This weird perf trace output:

  cc1-9943  [001]  2802.059479616: sched_stat_wait: task: as:9944 wait: 2801938766276 [ns]

Is caused by setting one component field of the delta to zero
a bit too early. Move it to later.

( Note, this does not affect the NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS interactivity bug,
  it's just a reporting bug in essence. )

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <4AA93D34.8040500@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-10 20:52:54 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 172e082a91 sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies
Reduce the latency target from 20 msecs to 5 msecs.

Why? Larger latencies increase spread, which is good for scaling,
but bad for worst case latency.

We still have the ilog(nr_cpus) rule to scale up on bigger
server boxes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09 17:30:06 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 2bba22c50b sched: Turn off child_runs_first
Set child_runs_first default to off.

It hurts 'optimal' make -j<NR_CPUS> workloads as make jobs
get preempted by child tasks, reducing parallelism.

Note, this patch might make existing races in user
applications more prominent than before - so breakages
might be bisected to this commit.

Child-runs-first is broken on SMP to begin with, and we
already had it off briefly in v2.6.23 so most of the
offenders ought to be fixed. Would be nice not to revert
this commit but fix those apps finally ...

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
[ made the sysctl independent of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, in case
  people want to work around broken apps. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09 17:30:05 +02:00
Mike Galbraith b5d9d734a5 sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()
A fork/exec load is usually "pass the baton", so the child
should never be placed behind the parent.  With START_DEBIT we
make room for the new task, but with child_runs_first, that
room comes out of the _parent's_ hide. There's nothing to say
that the parent wasn't ahead of min_vruntime at fork() time,
which means that the "baton carrier", who is essentially the
parent in drag, can gain time and increase scheduling latencies
for waiters.

With NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS + START_DEBIT + child_runs_first
enabled, we essentially pass the sleeper fairness off to the
child, which is fine, but if we don't base placement on the
parent's updated vruntime, we can end up compounding latency
woes if the child itself then does fork/exec.  The debit
incurred at fork doesn't hurt the parent who is then going to
sleep and maybe exit, but the child who acquires the error
harms all comers.

This improves latencies of make -j<n> kernel build workloads.

Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-08 13:15:34 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 71a29aa7b6 sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine()
wake_affine() would always fail under low-load situations where
both prev and this were idle, because adding a single task will
always be a significant imbalance, even if there's nothing
around that could balance it.

Deal with this by allowing imbalance when there's nothing you
can do about it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-07 20:39:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra cdd2ab3de4 sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair()
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>
2009-09-07 20:39:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 768d0c2722 sched: Add wait, sleep and iowait accounting tracepoints
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>
2009-09-02 09:12:18 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 8f0dfc34e9 sched: Provide iowait counters
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>
2009-09-02 08:44:08 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8f48894fcc sched: Add debug check to task_of()
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>
2009-08-02 14:26:14 +02:00
Gregory Haskins 00aec93d10 sched: Fully integrate cpus_active_map and root-domain code
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>
2009-08-02 14:26:12 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra e414314cce sched: Fix latencytop and sleep profiling vs group scheduling
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>
2009-08-02 14:10:12 +02:00
Fabio Checconi 54fdc58166 sched: Account for vruntime wrapping
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>
2009-07-18 11:17:08 +02:00
Paul Turner d07387b490 sched: Fix bug in SCHED_IDLE interaction with group scheduling
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>
2009-07-11 10:00:09 +02:00
Christian Engelmayer 3104bf03a9 sched: Fix out of scope variable access in sched_slice()
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>
2009-06-17 18:37:54 +02:00
Paul Turner 002f128b47 sched: remove redundant hierarchy walk in check_preempt_wakeup
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>
2009-04-09 08:19:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5274f8354d Merge branch 'sched/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc5' into sched/core 2009-02-15 21:15:16 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra fc631c82e1 sched: revert recent sync wakeup changes
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>
2009-02-11 14:43:35 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 140573d33b Merge branches 'sched/rt' and 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2009-02-08 20:12:46 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra a571bbeafb sched: fix buddie group latency
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>
2009-02-01 10:49:51 +01:00
Mike Galbraith a9f3e2b549 sched: clear buddies more aggressively
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>
2009-02-01 10:49:50 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra d942fb6c7d sched: fix sync wakeups
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>
2009-02-01 10:49:06 +01:00
Lin Ming 6272d68cc6 sched: sched_slice() fixlet
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>
2009-01-15 21:07:57 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra e17036dac1 sched: fix update_min_vruntime
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: 1af5f730fc
(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>
2009-01-15 15:12:19 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 6bc912b71b sched: SCHED_OTHER vs SCHED_IDLE isolation
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>
2009-01-15 15:07:29 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra e52fb7c097 sched: prefer wakers
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:
18de973530 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>
2009-01-15 12:00:09 +01:00
Wu Fengguang df4927bf6c generic swap(): sched: remove local swap() macro
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>
2009-01-08 08:31:15 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 5359c32eb7 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/urgent 2009-01-05 13:53:39 +01:00
Linus Torvalds b840d79631 Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of 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
2009-01-02 11:44:09 -08:00
Mike Galbraith 0a582440ff sched: fix sched_slice()
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(-)
2009-01-02 17:10:43 +01:00