linux.git/kernel/sched/fair.c, branch v3.18-rc2

Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2014-10-15T05:48:18+00:00

Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo:
"Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static
and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately
and had their own accessors. The distinction has been gone for many
years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained
with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other
operations over time. During the process, we also accumulated other
inconsistent operations.

This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the
duplicate accessor situation. __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with
with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr().

Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit
messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to
a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of
this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr().

This converts most of the uses but not all. Christoph will follow up
with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully
remove the obsolete accessors"

* 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits)
irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset
percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix
ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write.
percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t
Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses"
percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr
clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write
blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters
tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var
ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
s390: cio driver &__get_cpu_var replacements
s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator.
arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
...

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-10-13T14:23:15+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Optimized support for Intel "Cluster-on-Die" (CoD) topologies (Dave
     Hansen)

   - Various sched/idle refinements for better idle handling (Nicolas
     Pitre, Daniel Lezcano, Chuansheng Liu, Vincent Guittot)

   - sched/numa updates and optimizations (Rik van Riel)

   - sysbench speedup (Vincent Guittot)

   - capacity calculation cleanups/refactoring (Vincent Guittot)

   - Various cleanups to thread group iteration (Oleg Nesterov)

   - Double-rq-lock removal optimization and various refactorings
     (Kirill Tkhai)

   - various sched/deadline fixes

  ... and lots of other changes"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (72 commits)
  sched/dl: Use dl_bw_of() under rcu_read_lock_sched()
  sched/fair: Delete resched_cpu() from idle_balance()
  sched, time: Fix build error with 64 bit cputime_t on 32 bit systems
  sched: Improve sysbench performance by fixing spurious active migration
  sched/x86: Fix up typo in topology detection
  x86, sched: Add new topology for multi-NUMA-node CPUs
  sched/rt: Use resched_curr() in task_tick_rt()
  sched: Use rq->rd in sched_setaffinity() under RCU read lock
  sched: cleanup: Rename 'out_unlock' to 'out_free_new_mask'
  sched: Use dl_bw_of() under RCU read lock
  sched/fair: Remove duplicate code from can_migrate_task()
  sched, mips, ia64: Remove __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW
  sched: print_rq(): Don't use tasklist_lock
  sched: normalize_rt_tasks(): Don't use _irqsave for tasklist_lock, use task_rq_lock()
  sched: Fix the task-group check in tg_has_rt_tasks()
  sched/fair: Leverage the idle state info when choosing the "idlest" cpu
  sched: Let the scheduler see CPU idle states
  sched/deadline: Fix inter- exclusive cpusets migrations
  sched/deadline: Clear dl_entity params when setscheduling to different class
  sched/numa: Kill the wrong/dead TASK_DEAD check in task_numa_fault()
  ...

mempolicy: remove the "task" arg of vma_policy_mof() and simplify it

2014-10-10T02:25:56+00:00

1. vma_policy_mof(task) is simply not safe unless task == current,
   it can race with do_exit()->mpol_put(). Remove this arg and update
   its single caller.

2. vma can not be NULL, remove this check and simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/fair: Delete resched_cpu() from idle_balance()

2014-10-03T03:46:56+00:00

We already reschedule env.dst_cpu in attach_tasks()->check_preempt_curr()
if this is necessary.

Furthermore, a higher priority class task may be current on dest rq,
we shouldn't disturb it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai 
Cc: Juri Lelli 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140930210441.5258.55054.stgit@localhost
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Improve sysbench performance by fixing spurious active migration

2014-10-03T03:46:54+00:00

Since commit caeb178c60f4 ("sched/fair: Make update_sd_pick_busiest() ...")
sd_pick_busiest returns a group that can be neither imbalanced nor overloaded
but is only more loaded than others. This change has been introduced to ensure
a better load balance in system that are not overloaded but as a side effect,
it can also generate useless active migration between groups.

Let take the example of 3 tasks on a quad cores system. We will always have an
idle core so the load balance will find a busiest group (core) whenever an ILB
is triggered and it will force an active migration (once above
nr_balance_failed threshold) so the idle core becomes busy but another core
will become idle. With the next ILB, the freshly idle core will try to pull the
task of a busy CPU.
The number of spurious active migration is not so huge in quad core system
because the ILB is not triggered so much. But it becomes significant as soon as
you have more than one sched_domain level like on a dual cluster of quad cores
where the ILB is triggered every tick when you have more than 1 busy_cpu

We need to ensure that the migration generate a real improveùent and will not
only move the avg_load imbalance on another CPU.

Before caeb178c60f4f93f1b45c0bc056b5cf6d217b67f, the filtering of such use
case was ensured by the following test in f_b_g:

  if ((local->idle_cpus < busiest->idle_cpus) &&
		    busiest->sum_nr_running  <= busiest->group_weight)

This patch modified the condition to take into account situation where busiest
group is not overloaded: If the diff between the number of idle cpus in 2
groups is less than or equal to 1 and the busiest group is not overloaded,
moving a task will not improve the load balance but just move it.

A test with sysbench on a dual clusters of quad cores gives the following
results:

  command: sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=5 --max-time=5 run

The HZ is 200 which means that 1000 ticks has fired during the test.

With Mainline, perf gives the following figures:

 Samples: 727  of event 'sched:sched_migrate_task'
 Event count (approx.): 727
  Overhead  Command          Shared Object  Symbol
  ........  ...............  .............  ..............
    12.52%  migration/1      [unknown]      [.] 00000000
    12.52%  migration/5      [unknown]      [.] 00000000
    12.52%  migration/7      [unknown]      [.] 00000000
    12.10%  migration/6      [unknown]      [.] 00000000
    11.83%  migration/0      [unknown]      [.] 00000000
    11.83%  migration/3      [unknown]      [.] 00000000
    11.14%  migration/4      [unknown]      [.] 00000000
    10.87%  migration/2      [unknown]      [.] 00000000
     2.75%  sysbench         [unknown]      [.] 00000000
     0.83%  swapper          [unknown]      [.] 00000000
     0.55%  ktps65090charge  [unknown]      [.] 00000000
     0.41%  mmcqd/1          [unknown]      [.] 00000000
     0.14%  perf             [unknown]      [.] 00000000

With this patch, perf gives the following figures

 Samples: 20  of event 'sched:sched_migrate_task'
 Event count (approx.): 20
  Overhead  Command          Shared Object  Symbol
  ........  ...............  .............  ..............
    80.00%  sysbench         [unknown]      [.] 00000000
    10.00%  swapper          [unknown]      [.] 00000000
     5.00%  ktps65090charge  [unknown]      [.] 00000000
     5.00%  migration/1      [unknown]      [.] 00000000

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412170735-5356-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Remove duplicate code from can_migrate_task()

2014-09-24T12:47:07+00:00

Combine two branches which do the same.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140922183612.11015.64200.stgit@localhost
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Leverage the idle state info when choosing the "idlest" cpu

2014-09-24T12:46:59+00:00

The code in find_idlest_cpu() looks for the CPU with the smallest load.
However, if multiple CPUs are idle, the first idle CPU is selected
irrespective of the depth of its idle state.

Among the idle CPUs we should pick the one with with the shallowest idle
state, or the latest to have gone idle if all idle CPUs are in the same
state.  The later applies even when cpuidle is configured out.

This patch doesn't cover the following issues:

- The idle exit latency of a CPU might be larger than the time needed
  to migrate the waking task to an already running CPU with sufficient
  capacity, and therefore performance would benefit from task packing
  in such case (in most cases task packing is about power saving).

- Some idle states have a non negligible and non abortable entry latency
  which needs to run to completion before the exit latency can start.
  A concurrent patch series is making this info available to the cpuidle
  core.  Once available, the entry latency with the idle timestamp could
  determine when the exit latency may be effective.

Those issues will be handled in due course.  In the mean time, what
is implemented here should improve things already compared to the current
state of affairs.

Based on an initial patch from Daniel Lezcano.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Daniel Lezcano 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/numa: Kill the wrong/dead TASK_DEAD check in task_numa_fault()

2014-09-24T07:35:05+00:00

current->state == TASK_DEAD means that the task is doing its
last schedule(), page fault is obviously impossible at this
stage.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140921194743.GA30114@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Clean up some typos and grammatical errors in code/comments

2014-09-21T07:00:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: Zhihui Zhang 
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411262676-19928-1-git-send-email-zzhsuny@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Test the CPU's capacity in wake_affine()

2014-09-19T10:35:28+00:00

Currently the task always wakes affine on this_cpu if the latter is idle.
Before waking up the task on this_cpu, we check that this_cpu capacity is not
significantly reduced because of RT tasks or irq activity.

Use case where the number of irq and/or the time spent under irq is important
will take benefit of this because the task that is woken up by irq or softirq
will not use the same CPU than irq (and softirq) but a idle one.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1409051215-16788-8-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar