This patch updates the RCU documentation to reflect preemptible RCU as
well as recent publications.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch allows preemptible RCU to tolerate CPU-hotplug operations.
It accomplishes this by maintaining a local copy of a map of online
CPUs, which it accesses under its own lock.
Signed-off-by: NGautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side
critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs
to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them
when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details
of this implementation can be found in this paper -

	http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf

and the article-

	http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/

This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and
meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of
RCU don't disable preemption.  As a consequence of keeping track of RCU
readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper).
This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations
and can be switched to at compiler.

Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs.

[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ]
Signed-off-by: NGautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix rcu_barrier() to work properly in preemptive kernel environment.
Also, the ordering of callback must be preserved while moving
callbacks to another CPU during CPU hotplug.
Signed-off-by: NGautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch re-organizes the RCU code to enable multiple implementations
of RCU. Users of RCU continues to include rcupdate.h and the
RCU interfaces remain the same. This is in preparation for
subsequently merging the preemptible RCU implementation.
Signed-off-by: NGautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch makes RCU use softirq instead of tasklets.

It also adds a memory barrier after raising the softirq
inorder to ensure that the cpu sees the most recently updated
value of rcu->cur while processing callbacks.
The discussion of the related theoretical race pointed out
by James Huang can be found here --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/20/603Signed-off-by: NGautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We had support for overlapping cpuset based rto logic in early
prototypes that is no longer used, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The overload set/clears were originally idempotent when this logic was first
implemented.  But that is no longer true due to the addition of the atomic
counter and this logic was never updated to work properly with that change.
So only adjust the overload state if it is actually changing to avoid
getting out of sync.
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Dmitry Adamushko found that the current implementation of the RT
balancing code left out changes to the sched_setscheduler and
rt_mutex_setprio.

This patch addresses this issue by adding methods to the schedule classes
to handle being switched out of (switched_from) and being switched into
(switched_to) a sched_class. Also a method for changing of priorities
is also added (prio_changed).

This patch also removes some duplicate logic between rt_mutex_setprio and
sched_setscheduler.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

To make the main sched.c code more agnostic to the schedule classes.
Instead of having specific hooks in the schedule code for the RT class
balancing. They are replaced with a pre_schedule, post_schedule
and task_wake_up methods. These methods may be used by any of the classes
but currently, only the sched_rt class implements them.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Yanmin Zhang noticed a nice optimization:

  p = l * nr / nl, nl = l/g -> p = g * nr

which eliminates a do_div() from __sched_period().
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Clean-up try_to_wake_up().

Get rid of the 'new_cpu' variable in try_to_wake_up() [ that's, one
#ifdef section less ].  Also remove a few redundant blank lines.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

No need to do a check for 'affine wakeup and passive balancing possibilities'
in select_task_rq_fair() when task_cpu(p) == this_cpu.

I guess, this part got missed upon introduction of per-sched_class
select_task_rq() in try_to_wake_up().
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

whitespace cleanups in topology.h.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

reactivate fork balancing.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

add credits for RT balancing improvements.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

style cleanup of various changes that were done recently.

no code changed:

      text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
     26399    2578      48   29025    7161 sched.o.before
     26399    2578      48   29025    7161 sched.o.after
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

remove unused JIFFIES_TO_NS() macro.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

fix build bug in sched_rt.c:join/leave_domain and make them only
be included on SMP builds.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We move the rt-overload data as the first global to per-domain
reclassification.  This limits the scope of overload related cache-line
bouncing to stay with a specified partition instead of affecting all
cpus in the system.

Finally, we limit the scope of find_lowest_cpu searches to the domain
instead of the entire system.  Note that we would always respect domain
boundaries even without this patch, but we first would scan potentially
all cpus before whittling the list down.  Now we can avoid looking at
RQs that are out of scope, again reducing cache-line hits.

Note: In some cases, task->cpus_allowed will effectively reduce our search
to within our domain.  However, I believe there are cases where the
cpus_allowed mask may be all ones and therefore we err on the side of
caution.  If it can be optimized later, so be it.
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We add the notion of a root-domain which will be used later to rescope
global variables to per-domain variables.  Each exclusive cpuset
essentially defines an island domain by fully partitioning the member cpus
from any other cpuset.  However, we currently still maintain some
policy/state as global variables which transcend all cpusets.  Consider,
for instance, rt-overload state.

Whenever a new exclusive cpuset is created, we also create a new
root-domain object and move each cpu member to the root-domain's span.
By default the system creates a single root-domain with all cpus as
members (mimicking the global state we have today).

We add some plumbing for storing class specific data in our root-domain.
Whenever a RQ is switching root-domains (because of repartitioning) we
give each sched_class the opportunity to remove any state from its old
domain and add state to the new one.  This logic doesn't have any clients
yet but it will later in the series.
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
CC: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
CC: Simon Derr <simon.derr@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

clean up schedule_balance_rt().
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

clean up pull_rt_task().
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

remove leftover debugging.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

remove rt_overload() - it's an unnecessary indirection.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

clean up whitespace damage and missing comments in kernel/sched_rt.c.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

clean up overlong line in kernel/sched_debug.c.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

clean up find_lock_lowest_rq().
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

clean up pick_next_highest_task_rt().
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

rt-balance when creating new tasks.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch removes several cpumask operations by keeping track
of the first of the CPUS that is of the lowest priority. When
the search for the lowest priority runqueue is completed, all
the bits up to the first CPU with the lowest priority runqueue
is cleared.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We can cheaply track the number of bits set in the cpumask for the lowest
priority CPUs.  Therefore, compute the mask's weight and use it to skip
the optimal domain search logic when there is only one CPU available.
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We don't need to bother searching if the task cannot be migrated
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch changes the searching for a run queue by a waking RT task
to try to pick another runqueue if the currently running task
is an RT task.

The reason is that RT tasks behave different than normal
tasks. Preempting a normal task to run a RT task to keep
its cache hot is fine, because the preempted non-RT task
may wait on that same runqueue to run again unless the
migration thread comes along and pulls it off.

RT tasks behave differently. If one is preempted, it makes
an active effort to continue to run. So by having a high
priority task preempt a lower priority RT task, that lower
RT task will then quickly try to run on another runqueue.
This will cause that lower RT task to replace its nice
hot cache (and TLB) with a completely cold one. This is
for the hope that the new high priority RT task will keep
 its cache hot.

Remeber that this high priority RT task was just woken up.
So it may likely have been sleeping for several milliseconds,
and will end up with a cold cache anyway. RT tasks run till
they voluntarily stop, or are preempted by a higher priority
task. This means that it is unlikely that the woken RT task
will have a hot cache to wake up to. So pushing off a lower
RT task is just killing its cache for no good reason.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We have logic to detect whether the system has migratable tasks, but we are
not using it when deciding whether to push tasks away.  So we add support
for considering this new information.
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The current code base assumes a relatively flat CPU/core topology and will
route RT tasks to any CPU fairly equally.  In the real world, there are
various toplogies and affinities that govern where a task is best suited to
run with the smallest amount of overhead.  NUMA and multi-core CPUs are
prime examples of topologies that can impact cache performance.

Fortunately, linux is already structured to represent these topologies via
the sched_domains interface.  So we change our RT router to consult a
combination of topology and affinity policy to best place tasks during
migration.
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

In the original patch series that Steven Rostedt and I worked on together,
we both took different approaches to low-priority wakeup path.  I utilized
"pre-routing" (push the task away to a less important RQ before activating)
approach, while Steve utilized a "post-routing" approach.  The advantage of
my approach is that you avoid the overhead of a wasted activate/deactivate
cycle and peripherally related burdens.  The advantage of Steve's method is
that it neatly solves an issue preventing a "pull" optimization from being
deployed.

In the end, we ended up deploying Steve's idea.  But it later dawned on me
that we could get the best of both worlds by deploying both ideas together,
albeit slightly modified.

The idea is simple:  Use a "light-weight" lookup for pre-routing, since we
only need to approximate a good home for the task.  And we also retain the
post-routing push logic to clean up any inaccuracies caused by a condition
of "priority mistargeting" caused by the lightweight lookup.  Most of the
time, the pre-routing should work and yield lower overhead.  In the cases
where it doesnt, the post-router will bat cleanup.
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

It doesn't hurt if we allow the current CPU to be included in the
search.  We will just simply skip it later if the current CPU turns out
to be the lowest.

We will use this later in the series
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Isolate the search logic into a function so that it can be used later
in places other than find_locked_lowest_rq().
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The current wake-up code path tries to determine if it can optimize the
wake-up to "this_cpu" by computing load calculations.  The problem is that
these calculations are only relevant to SCHED_OTHER tasks where load is king.
For RT tasks, priority is king.  So the load calculation is completely wasted
bandwidth.

Therefore, we create a new sched_class interface to help with
pre-wakeup routing decisions and move the load calculation as a function
of CFS task's class.
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>