With the introduction of sched_attr::sched_nice we need to check
if we've got permission to actually change the nice value.
Daniel found that can_nice() would always fail; and upon
inspection it turns out that can_nice() only tests to see if we
can lower the nice value, but it doesn't validate if we're
lowering or not.
Therefore amend the test to only call can_nice() when we lower
the nice value.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>
Fixes: d50dde5a10 ("sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Fengguang Wu reported the following build warning:
> kernel/sched/core.c:3067 __sched_setscheduler() warn: unsigned 'attr->sched_priority' is never less than zero.
Since it doesn't make sense for attr::sched_priority to be negative,
remove the check, since we already test for an upper limit any actual
negative values passed in through the old param::sched_priority field
will still be detected.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <[email protected]>
Fixes: d50dde5a10 ("sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Wu reported LTP failures:
> ltp.sched_setparam02.1.TFAIL
> ltp.sched_setparam02.2.TFAIL
> ltp.sched_setparam02.3.TFAIL
> ltp.sched_setparam03.1.TFAIL
There were 2 things wrong; firstly __setscheduler() failed on
sched_setparam()'s policy = -1, fix that by reading from p->policy in
that case.
Secondly, getparam() (and getattr()) would still report !0
sched_priority for !FIFO/RR tasks after having been such. So
unconditionally set p->rt_priority.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <[email protected]>
Fixes: d50dde5a10 ("sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Fengguang Wu's kbuild test robot reported the following new htmldocs warnings:
>>> Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:3380): No description found for parameter 'uattr'
>>> Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:3380): Excess function parameter 'attr' description in 'sys_sched_setattr'
>>> Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:3520): No description found for parameter 'uattr'
>>> Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:3520): Excess function parameter 'attr' description in 'sys_sched_getattr'
The second argument to sys_sched_{setattr,getattr}() is named uattr (not attr).
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <[email protected]>
Fixes: d50dde5a10 ("sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Dan Carpenter reported new 'Smatch' warnings:
> tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git sched/core
> head: 130816ce4d
> commit: 1baca4ce16 [17/50] sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE SMP-related data structures & logic
>
> kernel/sched/deadline.c:937 pick_next_task_dl() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'p' (see line 934)
BUG_ON() already fires if pick_next_dl_entity() doesn't return a valid
dl_se. No need to check if p is valid afterward.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Fixes: 1baca4ce16 ("sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE SMP-related data structures & logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
fix these new sparse warnings:
>> kernel/sched/core.c:305:14: sparse: symbol 'sysctl_sched_dl_period' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> kernel/sched/core.c:306:5: sparse: symbol 'sysctl_sched_dl_runtime' was not declared. Should it be static?
Better still, they're completely unused so remove them.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
new sparse warnings:
>> kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:38:6: sparse: symbol 'cpudl_exchange' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:46:6: sparse: symbol 'cpudl_heapify' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:71:6: sparse: symbol 'cpudl_change_key' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:195:15: sparse: memset with byte count of 163928
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Fixes: 6bfd6d72f5 ("sched/deadline: speed up SCHED_DEADLINE pushes with a push-heap")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/52d47f8c.EYJsA5+mELPBk4t6\%[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
With various drivers wanting to inject idle time; we get people
calling idle routines outside of the idle loop proper.
Therefore we need to be extra careful about not missing
TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED propagations.
While looking at this, I also realized there's a small window in the
existing idle loop where we can miss TIF_NEED_RESCHED; when it hits
right after the tif_need_resched() test at the end of the loop but
right before the need_resched() test at the start of the loop.
So move preempt_fold_need_resched() out of the loop where we're
guaranteed to have TIF_NEED_RESCHED set.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
The cpu information is stored in the struct rq. Pass the struct rq to
nohz_idle_balance, so all the functions called in run_rebalance_domains have
the same parameters and the 'this_cpu' variable becomes pointless.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>
[ Added !SMP build fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
The cpu information is stored in the struct rq and the caller of the
rebalance_domains function pass the cpu to retrieve the struct rq but
it already has the struct rq info. Replace the cpu parameter with the
struct rq.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
The cpu information is already stored in the struct rq, so no need to pass it
as parameter to the nohz_kick_needed function.
The caller of this function just called idle_cpu() before to fill the
rq->idle_balance field.
Use rq->cpu and rq->idle_balance.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
The current hotplug admission control is broken because:
CPU_DYING -> migration_call() -> migrate_tasks() -> __migrate_task()
cannot fail and hard assumes it _will_ move all tasks off of the dying
cpu, failing this will break hotplug.
The much simpler solution is a DOWN_PREPARE handler that fails when
removing one CPU gets us below the total allocated bandwidth.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Remove the deadline specific sysctls for now. The problem with them is
that the interaction with the exisiting rt knobs is nearly impossible
to get right.
The current (as per before this patch) situation is that the rt and dl
bandwidth is completely separate and we enforce rt+dl < 100%. This is
undesirable because this means that the rt default of 95% leaves us
hardly any room, even though dl tasks are saver than rt tasks.
Another proposed solution was (a discarted patch) to have the dl
bandwidth be a fraction of the rt bandwidth. This is highly
confusing imo.
Furthermore neither proposal is consistent with the situation we
actually want; which is rt tasks ran from a dl server. In which case
the rt bandwidth is a direct subset of dl.
So whichever way we go, the introduction of dl controls at this point
is painful. Therefore remove them and instead share the rt budget.
This means that for now the rt knobs are used for dl admission control
and the dl runtime is accounted against the rt runtime. I realise that
this isn't entirely desirable either; but whatever we do we appear to
need to change the interface later, so better have a small interface
for now.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
For now deadline tasks are not allowed to set smp affinity; however
the current tests are wrong, cure this.
The test in __sched_setscheduler() also uses an on-stack cpumask_t
which is a no-no.
Change both tests to use cpumask_subset() such that we test the root
domain span to be a subset of the cpus_allowed mask. This way we're
sure the tasks can always run on all CPUs they can be balanced over,
and have no effective affinity constraints.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Data from tests confirmed that the original active load balancing
logic didn't scale neither in the number of CPU nor in the number of
tasks (as sched_rt does).
Here we provide a global data structure to keep track of deadlines
of the running tasks in the system. The structure is composed by
a bitmask showing the free CPUs and a max-heap, needed when the system
is heavily loaded.
The implementation and concurrent access scheme are kept simple by
design. However, our measurements show that we can compete with sched_rt
on large multi-CPUs machines [1].
Only the push path is addressed, the extension to use this structure
also for pull decisions is straightforward. However, we are currently
evaluating different (in order to decrease/avoid contention) data
structures to solve possibly both problems. We are also going to re-run
tests considering recent changes inside cpupri [2].
[1] http://retis.sssup.it/~jlelli/papers/Ospert11Lelli.pdf
[2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg06778.html
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
In order of deadline scheduling to be effective and useful, it is
important that some method of having the allocation of the available
CPU bandwidth to tasks and task groups under control.
This is usually called "admission control" and if it is not performed
at all, no guarantee can be given on the actual scheduling of the
-deadline tasks.
Since when RT-throttling has been introduced each task group have a
bandwidth associated to itself, calculated as a certain amount of
runtime over a period. Moreover, to make it possible to manipulate
such bandwidth, readable/writable controls have been added to both
procfs (for system wide settings) and cgroupfs (for per-group
settings).
Therefore, the same interface is being used for controlling the
bandwidth distrubution to -deadline tasks and task groups, i.e.,
new controls but with similar names, equivalent meaning and with
the same usage paradigm are added.
However, more discussion is needed in order to figure out how
we want to manage SCHED_DEADLINE bandwidth at the task group level.
Therefore, this patch adds a less sophisticated, but actually
very sensible, mechanism to ensure that a certain utilization
cap is not overcome per each root_domain (the single rq for !SMP
configurations).
Another main difference between deadline bandwidth management and
RT-throttling is that -deadline tasks have bandwidth on their own
(while -rt ones doesn't!), and thus we don't need an higher level
throttling mechanism to enforce the desired bandwidth.
This patch, therefore:
- adds system wide deadline bandwidth management by means of:
* /proc/sys/kernel/sched_dl_runtime_us,
* /proc/sys/kernel/sched_dl_period_us,
that determine (i.e., runtime / period) the total bandwidth
available on each CPU of each root_domain for -deadline tasks;
- couples the RT and deadline bandwidth management, i.e., enforces
that the sum of how much bandwidth is being devoted to -rt
-deadline tasks to stay below 100%.
This means that, for a root_domain comprising M CPUs, -deadline tasks
can be created until the sum of their bandwidths stay below:
M * (sched_dl_runtime_us / sched_dl_period_us)
It is also possible to disable this bandwidth management logic, and
be thus free of oversubscribing the system up to any arbitrary level.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Some method to deal with rt-mutexes and make sched_dl interact with
the current PI-coded is needed, raising all but trivial issues, that
needs (according to us) to be solved with some restructuring of
the pi-code (i.e., going toward a proxy execution-ish implementation).
This is under development, in the meanwhile, as a temporary solution,
what this commits does is:
- ensure a pi-lock owner with waiters is never throttled down. Instead,
when it runs out of runtime, it immediately gets replenished and it's
deadline is postponed;
- the scheduling parameters (relative deadline and default runtime)
used for that replenishments --during the whole period it holds the
pi-lock-- are the ones of the waiting task with earliest deadline.
Acting this way, we provide some kind of boosting to the lock-owner,
still by using the existing (actually, slightly modified by the previous
commit) pi-architecture.
We would stress the fact that this is only a surely needed, all but
clean solution to the problem. In the end it's only a way to re-start
discussion within the community. So, as always, comments, ideas, rants,
etc.. are welcome! :-)
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
[ Added !RT_MUTEXES build fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Turn the pi-chains from plist to rb-tree, in the rt_mutex code,
and provide a proper comparison function for -deadline and
-priority tasks.
This is done mainly because:
- classical prio field of the plist is just an int, which might
not be enough for representing a deadline;
- manipulating such a list would become O(nr_deadline_tasks),
which might be to much, as the number of -deadline task increases.
Therefore, an rb-tree is used, and tasks are queued in it according
to the following logic:
- among two -priority (i.e., SCHED_BATCH/OTHER/RR/FIFO) tasks, the
one with the higher (lower, actually!) prio wins;
- among a -priority and a -deadline task, the latter always wins;
- among two -deadline tasks, the one with the earliest deadline
wins.
Queueing and dequeueing functions are changed accordingly, for both
the list of a task's pi-waiters and the list of tasks blocked on
a pi-lock.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-again-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Make it possible to specify a period (different or equal than
deadline) for -deadline tasks. Relative deadlines (D_i) are used on
task arrivals to generate new scheduling (absolute) deadlines as "d =
t + D_i", and periods (P_i) to postpone the scheduling deadlines as "d
= d + P_i" when the budget is zero.
This is in general useful to model (and schedule) tasks that have slow
activation rates (long periods), but have to be scheduled soon once
activated (short deadlines).
Signed-off-by: Harald Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Introduces data structures relevant for implementing dynamic
migration of -deadline tasks and the logic for checking if
runqueues are overloaded with -deadline tasks and for choosing
where a task should migrate, when it is the case.
Adds also dynamic migrations to SCHED_DEADLINE, so that tasks can
be moved among CPUs when necessary. It is also possible to bind a
task to a (set of) CPU(s), thus restricting its capability of
migrating, or forbidding migrations at all.
The very same approach used in sched_rt is utilised:
- -deadline tasks are kept into CPU-specific runqueues,
- -deadline tasks are migrated among runqueues to achieve the
following:
* on an M-CPU system the M earliest deadline ready tasks
are always running;
* affinity/cpusets settings of all the -deadline tasks is
always respected.
Therefore, this very special form of "load balancing" is done with
an active method, i.e., the scheduler pushes or pulls tasks between
runqueues when they are woken up and/or (de)scheduled.
IOW, every time a preemption occurs, the descheduled task might be sent
to some other CPU (depending on its deadline) to continue executing
(push). On the other hand, every time a CPU becomes idle, it might pull
the second earliest deadline ready task from some other CPU.
To enforce this, a pull operation is always attempted before taking any
scheduling decision (pre_schedule()), as well as a push one after each
scheduling decision (post_schedule()). In addition, when a task arrives
or wakes up, the best CPU where to resume it is selected taking into
account its affinity mask, the system topology, but also its deadline.
E.g., from the scheduling point of view, the best CPU where to wake
up (and also where to push) a task is the one which is running the task
with the latest deadline among the M executing ones.
In order to facilitate these decisions, per-runqueue "caching" of the
deadlines of the currently running and of the first ready task is used.
Queued but not running tasks are also parked in another rb-tree to
speed-up pushes.
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Introduces the data structures, constants and symbols needed for
SCHED_DEADLINE implementation.
Core data structure of SCHED_DEADLINE are defined, along with their
initializers. Hooks for checking if a task belong to the new policy
are also added where they are needed.
Adds a scheduling class, in sched/dl.c and a new policy called
SCHED_DEADLINE. It is an implementation of the Earliest Deadline
First (EDF) scheduling algorithm, augmented with a mechanism (called
Constant Bandwidth Server, CBS) that makes it possible to isolate
the behaviour of tasks between each other.
The typical -deadline task will be made up of a computation phase
(instance) which is activated on a periodic or sporadic fashion. The
expected (maximum) duration of such computation is called the task's
runtime; the time interval by which each instance need to be completed
is called the task's relative deadline. The task's absolute deadline
is dynamically calculated as the time instant a task (better, an
instance) activates plus the relative deadline.
The EDF algorithms selects the task with the smallest absolute
deadline as the one to be executed first, while the CBS ensures each
task to run for at most its runtime every (relative) deadline
length time interval, avoiding any interference between different
tasks (bandwidth isolation).
Thanks to this feature, also tasks that do not strictly comply with
the computational model sketched above can effectively use the new
policy.
To summarize, this patch:
- introduces the data structures, constants and symbols needed;
- implements the core logic of the scheduling algorithm in the new
scheduling class file;
- provides all the glue code between the new scheduling class and
the core scheduler and refines the interactions between sched/dl
and the other existing scheduling classes.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Add the syscalls needed for supporting scheduling algorithms
with extended scheduling parameters (e.g., SCHED_DEADLINE).
In general, it makes possible to specify a periodic/sporadic task,
that executes for a given amount of runtime at each instance, and is
scheduled according to the urgency of their own timing constraints,
i.e.:
- a (maximum/typical) instance execution time,
- a minimum interval between consecutive instances,
- a time constraint by which each instance must be completed.
Thus, both the data structure that holds the scheduling parameters of
the tasks and the system calls dealing with it must be extended.
Unfortunately, modifying the existing struct sched_param would break
the ABI and result in potentially serious compatibility issues with
legacy binaries.
For these reasons, this patch:
- defines the new struct sched_attr, containing all the fields
that are necessary for specifying a task in the computational
model described above;
- defines and implements the new scheduling related syscalls that
manipulate it, i.e., sched_setattr() and sched_getattr().
Syscalls are introduced for x86 (32 and 64 bits) and ARM only, as a
proof of concept and for developing and testing purposes. Making them
available on other architectures is straightforward.
Since no "user" for these new parameters is introduced in this patch,
the implementation of the new system calls is just identical to their
already existing counterpart. Future patches that implement scheduling
policies able to exploit the new data structure must also take care of
modifying the sched_*attr() calls accordingly with their own purposes.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <[email protected]>
[ Rewrote to use sched_attr. ]
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
[ Removed sched_setscheduler2() for now. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Thomas Hellstrom bisected a regression where erratic 3D performance is
experienced on virtual machines as measured by glxgears. It identified
commit 58d081b5 ("sched/numa: Avoid overloading CPUs on a preferred NUMA
node") as the problem which had modified the behaviour of effective_load.
Effective load calculates the difference to the system-wide load if a
scheduling entity was moved to another CPU. The task group is not heavier
as a result of the move but overall system load can increase/decrease as a
result of the change. Commit 58d081b5 ("sched/numa: Avoid overloading CPUs
on a preferred NUMA node") changed effective_load to make it suitable for
calculating if a particular NUMA node was compute overloaded. To reduce
the cost of the function, it assumed that a current sched entity weight
of 0 was uninteresting but that is not the case.
wake_affine() uses a weight of 0 for sync wakeups on the grounds that it
is assuming the waking task will sleep and not contribute to load in the
near future. In this case, we still want to calculate the effective load
of the sched entity hierarchy. As effective_load is no longer used by
task_numa_compare since commit fb13c7ee (sched/numa: Use a system-wide
search to find swap/migration candidates), this patch simply restores the
historical behaviour.
Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Hellstrom <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
[ Wrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
This patch touches the RT group scheduling case.
Functions inc_rt_prio_smp() and dec_rt_prio_smp() change (global) rq's
priority, while rt_rq passed to them may be not the top-level rt_rq.
This is wrong, because changing of priority on a child level does not
guarantee that the priority is the highest all over the rq. So, this
leak makes RT balancing unusable.
The short example: the task having the highest priority among all rq's
RT tasks (no one other task has the same priority) are waking on a
throttle rt_rq. The rq's cpupri is set to the task's priority
equivalent, but real rq->rt.highest_prio.curr is less.
The patch below fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
CC: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Commit 42eb088e (sched: Avoid NULL dereference on sd_busy) corrected a NULL
dereference on sd_busy but the fix also altered what scheduling domain it
used for the 'sd_llc' percpu variable.
One impact of this is that a task selecting a runqueue may consider
idle CPUs that are not cache siblings as candidates for running.
Tasks are then running on CPUs that are not cache hot.
This was found through bisection where ebizzy threads were not seeing equal
performance and it looked like a scheduling fairness issue. This patch
mitigates but does not completely fix the problem on all machines tested
implying there may be an additional bug or a common root cause. Here are
the average range of performance seen by individual ebizzy threads. It
was tested on top of candidate patches related to x86 TLB range flushing.
4-core machine
3.13.0-rc3 3.13.0-rc3
vanilla fixsd-v3r3
Mean 1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
Mean 2 0.34 ( 0.00%) 0.10 ( 70.59%)
Mean 3 1.29 ( 0.00%) 0.93 ( 27.91%)
Mean 4 7.08 ( 0.00%) 0.77 ( 89.12%)
Mean 5 193.54 ( 0.00%) 2.14 ( 98.89%)
Mean 6 151.12 ( 0.00%) 2.06 ( 98.64%)
Mean 7 115.38 ( 0.00%) 2.04 ( 98.23%)
Mean 8 108.65 ( 0.00%) 1.92 ( 98.23%)
8-core machine
Mean 1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
Mean 2 0.40 ( 0.00%) 0.21 ( 47.50%)
Mean 3 23.73 ( 0.00%) 0.89 ( 96.25%)
Mean 4 12.79 ( 0.00%) 1.04 ( 91.87%)
Mean 5 13.08 ( 0.00%) 2.42 ( 81.50%)
Mean 6 23.21 ( 0.00%) 69.46 (-199.27%)
Mean 7 15.85 ( 0.00%) 101.72 (-541.77%)
Mean 8 109.37 ( 0.00%) 19.13 ( 82.51%)
Mean 12 124.84 ( 0.00%) 28.62 ( 77.07%)
Mean 16 113.50 ( 0.00%) 24.16 ( 78.71%)
It's eliminated for one machine and reduced for another.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Alex Shi <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Cc: H Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Christian suffers from a bad BIOS that wrecks his i5's TSC sync. This
results in him occasionally seeing time going backwards - which
crashes the scheduler ...
Most of our time accounting can actually handle that except the most
common one; the tick time update of sched_fair.
There is a further problem with that code; previously we assumed that
because we get a tick every TICK_NSEC our time delta could never
exceed 32bits and math was simpler.
However, ever since Frederic managed to get NO_HZ_FULL merged; this is
no longer the case since now a task can run for a long time indeed
without getting a tick. It only takes about ~4.2 seconds to overflow
our u32 in nanoseconds.
This means we not only need to better deal with time going backwards;
but also means we need to be able to deal with large deltas.
This patch reworks the entire code and uses mul_u64_u32_shr() as
proposed by Andy a long while ago.
We express our virtual time scale factor in a u32 multiplier and shift
right and the 32bit mul_u64_u32_shr() implementation reduces to a
single 32x32->64 multiply if the time delta is still short (common
case).
For 64bit a 64x64->128 multiply can be used if ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Christian Engelmayer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Paul Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Yinghai reported that he saw a /0 in sg_capacity on his EX parts.
Make sure to always initialize power_orig now that we actually use it.
Ideally build_sched_domains() -> init_sched_groups_power() would also
initialize this; but for some yet unexplained reason some setups seem
to miss updates there.
Reported-by: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Peter Zijlstra