- 01 2月, 2009 3 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
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: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Mike Galbraith 提交于
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: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
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: NPawel Dziekonski <dzieko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 16 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Lin Ming 提交于
Mike's change: 0a582440 "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: NLin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: NJayson King <dev@jaysonking.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 15 1月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 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>
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由 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>
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- 09 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Wu Fengguang 提交于
Use the new generic implementation. Signed-off-by: NWu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 03 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Mike Galbraith 提交于
Impact: fix bad-interactivity buglet Fix sched_slice() to emit a sane result whether a task is currently enqueued or not. Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Tested-by: NJayson King <dev@jaysonking.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> kernel/sched_fair.c | 30 ++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
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- 19 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 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>
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- 16 12月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Impact: micro-optimization Skip the hard work when there is none. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Mike Galbraith 提交于
Impact: sharpen the wakeup-granularity to always be against current scheduler time It was possible to do the preemption check against an old time stamp. 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>
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- 25 11月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 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>
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由 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>
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- 11 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Clear buddies on yield, so that the buddy rules don't schedule them despite them being placed right-most. This fixed a performance regression with yield-happy binary JVMs. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: NLin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
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- 05 11月, 2008 4 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Impact: scheduling order fix for group scheduling For each level in the hierarchy, set the buddy to point to the right entity. Therefore, when we do the hierarchical schedule, we have a fair chance of ending up where we meant to. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Impact: improve/change/fix wakeup-buddy scheduling Currently we only have a forward looking buddy, that is, we prefer to schedule to the task we last woke up, under the presumption that its going to consume the data we just produced, and therefore will have cache hot benefits. This allows co-waking producer/consumer task pairs to run ahead of the pack for a little while, keeping their cache warm. Without this, we would interleave all pairs, utterly trashing the cache. This patch introduces a backward looking buddy, that is, suppose that in the above scenario, the consumer preempts the producer before it can go to sleep, we will therefore miss the wakeup from consumer to producer (its already running, after all), breaking the cycle and reverting to the cache-trashing interleaved schedule pattern. The backward buddy will try to schedule back to the task that woke us up in case the forward buddy is not available, under the assumption that the last task will be the one with the most cache hot task around barring current. This will basically allow a task to continue after it got preempted. In order to avoid starvation, we allow either buddy to get wakeup_gran ahead of the pack. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Impact: fix cross-class preemption Inter-class wakeup preemptions should go on class order. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Impact: cleanup Clean up task selection Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 24 10月, 2008 4 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Since we moved wakeup preemption back to virtual time, it makes sense to move the buddy stuff back as well. The purpose of the buddy scheduling is to allow a quickly scheduling pair of tasks to run away from the group as far as a regular busy task would be allowed under wakeup preemption. This has the advantage that the pair can ping-pong for a while, enjoying cache-hotness. Without buddy scheduling other tasks would interleave destroying the cache. Also, it saves a word in cfs_rq. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
The advantage is that vruntime based wakeup preemption has a better conceptual model. Here wakeup_gran = 0 means: preempt when 'fair'. Therefore wakeup_gran is the granularity of unfairness we allow in order to make progress. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Mike Galbraith 提交于
Mysql+oltp and pgsql+oltp peaks are still shifted right. The below puts the peaks back to 1 client/server pair per core. Use the avg_overlap information to weaken the sync hint. 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>
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Mike noticed the current min_vruntime tracking can go wrong and skip the current task. If the only remaining task in the tree is a nice 19 task with huge vruntime, new tasks will be inserted too far to the right too, causing some interactibity issues. min_vruntime can only change due to the leftmost entry disappearing (dequeue_entity()), or by the leftmost entry being incremented past the next entry, which elects a new leftmost (__update_curr()) Due to the current entry not being part of the actual tree, we have to compare the leftmost tree entry with the current entry, and take the leftmost of these two. So create a update_min_vruntime() function that takes computes the leftmost vruntime in the system (either tree of current) and increases the cfs_rq->min_vruntime if the computed value is larger than the previously found min_vruntime. And call this from the two sites we've identified that can change min_vruntime. Reported-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 22 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Li Zefan 提交于
a patch from Henrik Austad did this: >> Do not declare select_task_rq as part of sched_class when CONFIG_SMP is >> not set. Peter observed: > While a proper cleanup, could you do it by re-arranging the methods so > as to not create an additional ifdef? Do not declare select_task_rq and some other methods as part of sched_class when CONFIG_SMP is not set. Also gather those methods to avoid CONFIG_SMP mess. Idea-by: NHenrik Austad <henrik.austad@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: NHenrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 20 10月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 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>
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由 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>
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- 17 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Mike Galbraith 提交于
Greetings, 103638d9 added a bit of avoidable overhead to the fast-path. Use sysctl_sched_min_granularity instead of sched_slice() to restrict buddy wakeups. Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 08 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
While looking at the code I wondered why we always do: sync && avg_overlap < migration_cost Which is a bit odd, since the overlap test was meant to detect sync wakeups so using it to specialize sync wakeups doesn't make much sense. Hence change the code to do: sync || avg_overlap < migration_cost Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 30 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Amit K. Arora 提交于
This patch does following: o Removes unused variable and argument "rq". o Optimizes one of the "if" conditions in wake_affine() - i.e. if "balanced" is true, we need not do rest of the calculations in the condition. o If this cpu is same as the previous cpu (on which woken up task was running when it went to sleep), no need to call wake_affine at all. Signed-off-by: NAmit K Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 25 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Bharata B Rao 提交于
cfs_rq->tasks list is used by the load balancer to iterate over all the tasks. Currently it holds all the entities (both task and group entities) because of which there is a need to check for group entities explicitly during load balancing. This patch changes the cfs_rq->tasks list to hold only task entities. Signed-off-by: NBharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 23 9月, 2008 4 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
We should set the buddy even though we might already have the TIF_RESCHED flag set. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
We should not only correct the increment for the initial group, but should be consistent and do so for all the groups we encounter. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Rework the wakeup preemption to work on real runtime instead of the virtual runtime. This greatly simplifies the code. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Chris Friesen 提交于
load_balance_fair() calls rcu_read_lock() but then traverses the list using the regular list traversal routine. This patch converts the list traversal to use the _rcu version. Signed-off-by: NChris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 22 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Lin Ming reported a 10% OLTP regression against 2.6.27-rc4. The difference seems to come from different preemption agressiveness, which affects the cache footprint of the workload and its effective cache trashing. Aggresively preempt a task if its avg overlap is very small, this should avoid the task going to sleep and find it still running when we schedule back to it - saving a wakeup. Reported-by: NLin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 14 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 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>
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- 06 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 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>
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- 28 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Bharata B Rao 提交于
- During wake up of a new task, task_new_fair() can do a resched_task() on the current task. Later in the code path, check_preempt_curr() also ends up doing the same, which can be avoided. Check if TIF_NEED_RESCHED is already set for the current task. - task_new_fair() does a resched_task() on the current task unconditionally. This can be done only in case when child runs before the parent. So this is a small speedup. Signed-off-by: NBharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 11 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 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>
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- 28 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Benjamin Herrenschmidt reported: > I get that on ppc64 ... > > In file included from kernel/sched.c:1595: > kernel/sched_fair.c: In function ‘hrtick_start_fair’: > kernel/sched_fair.c:902: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast > > Probably harmless but annoying. s64 delta = slice - ran; --> delta = max(10000LL, delta); Probably ppc64's s64 is long vs long long.. I think hpa was looking at sanitizing all these 64bit types across the architectures. Use max_t with an explicit type meanwhile. Reported-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmid <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 20 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 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>
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