1. 01 2月, 2009 3 次提交
  2. 16 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  3. 15 1月, 2009 2 次提交
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      sched: fix update_min_vruntime · e17036da
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      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: 1af5f730
      (sched: more accurate min_vruntime accounting).
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Tested-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Acked-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e17036da
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      sched: SCHED_OTHER vs SCHED_IDLE isolation · 6bc912b7
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      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: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6bc912b7
  4. 09 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  5. 03 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  6. 19 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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      sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages · 7eb52dfa
      Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 提交于
      Impact: tweak task wakeup to save power more agressively
      
      Preferred wakeup cpu (from a semi idle package) has been
      nominated in find_busiest_group() in the previous patch.  Use
      this information in sched_mc_preferred_wakeup_cpu in function
      wake_idle() to bias task wakeups if the following conditions
      are satisfied:
      
              - The present cpu that is trying to wakeup the process is
                idle and waking the target process on this cpu will
                potentially wakeup a completely idle package
              - The previous cpu on which the target process ran is
                also idle and hence selecting the previous cpu may
                wakeup a semi idle cpu package
              - The task being woken up is allowed to run in the
                nominated cpu (cpu affinity and restrictions)
      
      Basically if both the current cpu and the previous cpu on
      which the task ran is idle, select the nominated cpu from semi
      idle cpu package for running the new task that is waking up.
      
      Cache hotness is considered since the actual biasing happens
      in wake_idle() only if the application is cache cold.
      
      This technique will effectively move short running bursty jobs in
      a mostly idle system.
      
      Wakeup biasing for power savings gets automatically disabled if
      system utilisation increases due to the fact that the probability
      of finding both this_cpu and prev_cpu idle decreases.
      Signed-off-by: NVaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      7eb52dfa
  7. 16 12月, 2008 2 次提交
  8. 25 11月, 2008 2 次提交
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      sched: convert remaining old-style cpumask operators · 96f874e2
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Impact: Trivial API conversion
      
        NR_CPUS -> nr_cpu_ids
        cpumask_t -> struct cpumask
        sizeof(cpumask_t) -> cpumask_size()
        cpumask_a = cpumask_b -> cpumask_copy(&cpumask_a, &cpumask_b)
      
        cpu_set() -> cpumask_set_cpu()
        first_cpu() -> cpumask_first()
        cpumask_of_cpu() -> cpumask_of()
        cpus_* -> cpumask_*
      
      There are some FIXMEs where we all archs to complete infrastructure
      (patches have been sent):
      
        cpu_coregroup_map -> cpu_coregroup_mask
        node_to_cpumask* -> cpumask_of_node
      
      There is also one FIXME where we pass an array of cpumasks to
      partition_sched_domains(): this implies knowing the definition of
      'struct cpumask' and the size of a cpumask.  This will be fixed in a
      future patch.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      96f874e2
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      sched: wrap sched_group and sched_domain cpumask accesses. · 758b2cdc
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Impact: trivial wrap of member accesses
      
      This eases the transition in the next patch.
      
      We also get rid of a temporary cpumask in find_idlest_cpu() thanks to
      for_each_cpu_and, and sched_balance_self() due to getting weight before
      setting sd to NULL.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      758b2cdc
  9. 11 11月, 2008 1 次提交
  10. 05 11月, 2008 4 次提交
  11. 24 10月, 2008 4 次提交
  12. 22 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  13. 20 10月, 2008 2 次提交
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      sched: revert back to per-rq vruntime · f9c0b095
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      Vatsa rightly points out that having the runqueue weight in the vruntime
      calculations can cause unfairness in the face of task joins/leaves.
      
      Suppose: dv = dt * rw / w
      
      Then take 10 tasks t_n, each of similar weight. If the first will run 1
      then its vruntime will increase by 10. Now, if the next 8 tasks leave after
      having run their 1, then the last task will get a vruntime increase of 2
      after having run 1.
      
      Which will leave us with 2 tasks of equal weight and equal runtime, of which
      one will not be scheduled for 8/2=4 units of time.
      
      Ergo, we cannot do that and must use: dv = dt / w.
      
      This means we cannot have a global vruntime based on effective priority, but
      must instead go back to the vruntime per rq model we started out with.
      
      This patch was lightly tested by doing starting while loops on each nice level
      and observing their execution time, and a simple group scenario of 1:2:3 pinned
      to a single cpu.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f9c0b095
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      sched: fair scheduler should not resched rt tasks · a4c2f00f
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      With use of ftrace Steven noticed that some RT tasks got rescheduled due
      to sched_fair interaction.
      
      What happens is that we reprogram the hrtick from enqueue/dequeue_fair_task()
      because that can change nr_running, and thus a current tasks ideal runtime.
      However, its possible the current task isn't a fair_sched_class task, and thus
      doesn't have a hrtick set to change.
      
      Fix this by wrapping those hrtick_start_fair() calls in a hrtick_update()
      function, which will check for the right conditions.
      Reported-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a4c2f00f
  14. 17 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  15. 08 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  16. 30 9月, 2008 1 次提交
  17. 25 9月, 2008 1 次提交
  18. 23 9月, 2008 4 次提交
  19. 22 9月, 2008 1 次提交
  20. 14 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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      timers: fix itimer/many thread hang · f06febc9
      Frank Mayhar 提交于
      Overview
      
      This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the
      ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling.  It was put together
      with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code.
      
      The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using
      a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads.  It appears
      that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was
      at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse.
      Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken
      for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at
      which point things degrade rather quickly.
      
      This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF."
      
      Code Changes
      
      This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it
      run in constant time for a particular machine.  (Performance may vary between
      one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single-
      or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of
      running processors.)  To do this, at each tick we now update fields in
      signal_struct as well as task_struct.  The run_posix_cpu_timers() function
      uses those fields to make its decisions.
      
      We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and
      scheduler times and use these in appropriate places:
      
      struct task_cputime {
      	cputime_t utime;
      	cputime_t stime;
      	unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime;
      };
      
      This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new
      substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus
      multiprocessor kernels.  For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as
      a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer:
      
      struct thread_group_cputime {
      	struct task_cputime totals;
      };
      
      struct thread_group_cputime {
      	struct task_cputime *totals;
      };
      
      We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to
      cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also
      replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration
      of thread timers).  The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide
      timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends.  In the non-SMP
      case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that
      simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in
      one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than
      the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention).  For SMP, the
      thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated
      using alloc_percpu().  The timer functions update only the timer field in
      the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr().
      
      We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the
      thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP
      implementations from the rest of the kernel.  The thread_group_cputime_init()
      function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task.
      The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the
      out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill
      in the per-cpu structures and fields.  The thread_group_cputime_free()
      function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures.  The
      thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls
      thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been
      allocated.  The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime
      structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields;
      in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal
      is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and,
      if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU.  Finally, the three
      functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and
      account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the
      respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure.
      
      Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further.
      
      The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new
      thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal().
      It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from
      cleanup_signal().
      
      All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from
      from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to
      snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in
      the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated.
      
      Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit.
      The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a
      slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread
      timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting.
      With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and
      the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away.  All
      summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the
      thread_group_cputime() inline.  When process-wide timers are set, the new
      task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest
      expiration; this is checked in the fast path.
      
      Performance
      
      The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations.  It
      generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in
      which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs
      very significantly better (Case 2 below).  Overall it's a wash except in those
      two cases.
      
      I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system.
      
      Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed
      	kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system,
      	all of which was spent in the system.  There were twice as many
      	voluntary context switches with the fix as without it.
      
      Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most
      	an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in
      	eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and
      	had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023
      	seconds per tick).
      
      Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an
      	interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had
      	very nearly the same performance in both cases:  6.3 seconds elapsed
      	for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel.
      
      With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially
      the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus
      5.8 seconds).  The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds
      versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per
      tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel.
      
      Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits.
      
      Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer
      	running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while
      	it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of
      	wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was
      	user time.  The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds
      	of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system
      	time.  Really, though, the results were too close to call.  The results
      	were essentially the same with no itimer running.
      
      Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds
      	(where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running,
      	the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified
      	kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick.  Otherwise,
      	performance was almost indistinguishable.  With no itimer running this
      	test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases.
      
      In times past I did some limited performance testing.  those results are below.
      
      On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed
      in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s.  On
      the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but
      system time dropped to 0.007 seconds.  Performance with eight, four and one
      thread were comparable.  Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed
      more accurate:  The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks
      for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720
      for 0.061 seconds per tick.  Both cases were configured for an interval of
      0.01 seconds.  Again, the other tests were comparable.  Each thread in this
      test computed the primes up to 25,000,000.
      
      I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is
      impossible without the fix.  In this case each thread computed the primes only
      up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable).  System time dominated, at
      1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of
      629.938s).  It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite
      accurate.  There is obviously no comparable test without the fix.
      Signed-off-by: NFrank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
      Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f06febc9
  21. 06 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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      sched: fix __load_balance_iterator() for cfq with only one task · 38736f47
      Gautham R Shenoy 提交于
      The __load_balance_iterator() returns a NULL when there's only one
      sched_entity which is a task. It is caused by the following code-path.
      
      	/* Skip over entities that are not tasks */
      	do {
      		se = list_entry(next, struct sched_entity, group_node);
      		next = next->next;
      	} while (next != &cfs_rq->tasks && !entity_is_task(se));
      
      	if (next == &cfs_rq->tasks)
      		return NULL;
      	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
            This will return NULL even when se is a task.
      
      As a side-effect, there was a regression in sched_mc behavior since 2.6.25,
      since iter_move_one_task() when it calls load_balance_start_fair(),
      would not get any tasks to move!
      
      Fix this by checking if the last entity was a task or not.
      Signed-off-by: NGautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      38736f47
  22. 28 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  23. 11 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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      sched: fix mysql+oltp regression · 77ae6513
      Mike Galbraith 提交于
      Defer commit 6d299f1b to the next release.
      
      Testing of the tip/sched/clock tree revealed a mysql+oltp regression
      which bisection eventually traced back to this commit in mainline.
      
      Pertinent test results:  Three run sysbench averages, throughput units
      in read/write requests/sec.
      
      clients         1     2     4     8    16    32    64
      6e0534f2      9646 17876 34774 33868 32230 30767 29441
      2.6.26.1     9112 17936 34652 33383 31929 30665 29232
      6d299f1b      9112 14637 28370 33339 32038 30762 29204
      
      Note: subsequent commits hide the majority of this regression until you
      apply the clock fixes, at which time it reemerges at full magnitude.
      
      We cannot see anything bad about the change itself so we defer it to the
      next release until this problem is fully analysed.
      Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      77ae6513
  24. 28 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  25. 20 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation · 31656519
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      random uvesafb failures were reported against Gentoo:
      
        http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222799
      
      and Mihai Moldovan bisected it back to:
      
      > 8f4d37ec is first bad commit
      > commit 8f4d37ec
      > Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      > Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:29 2008 +0100
      >
      >    sched: high-res preemption tick
      
      Linus suspected it to be hrtick + vm86 interaction and observed:
      
      > Btw, Peter, Ingo: I think that commit is doing bad things. They aren't
      > _incorrect_ per se, but they are definitely bad.
      >
      > Why?
      >
      > Using random _TIF_WORK_MASK flags is really impolite for doing
      > "scheduling" work. There's a reason that arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
      > special-cases the _TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag: we don't want to exit out of
      > vm86 mode unnecessarily.
      >
      > See the "work_notifysig_v86" label, and how it does that
      > "save_v86_state()" thing etc etc.
      
      Right, I never liked having to fiddle with those TIF flags. Initially I
      needed it because the hrtimer base lock could not nest in the rq lock.
      That however is fixed these days.
      
      Currently the only reason left to fiddle with the TIF flags is remote
      wakeups. We cannot program a remote cpu's hrtimer. I've been thinking
      about using the new and improved IPI function call stuff to implement
      hrtimer_start_on().
      
      However that does require that smp_call_function_single(.wait=0) works
      from interrupt context - /me looks at the latest series from Jens - Yes
      that does seem to be supported, good.
      
      Here's a stab at cleaning this stuff up ...
      
      Mihai reported test success as well.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Tested-by: NMihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
      Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
      Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      31656519