linux.git/kernel/sched/rt.c, branch v3.14-rc2

sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE SMP-related data structures & logic

2014-01-13T12:41:07+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-5-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Fix rq's cpupri leak while enqueue/dequeue child RT entities

2013-12-17T14:08:44+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
CC: Steven Rostedt 
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/49231385567953@web4m.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Fix task_tick_rt() comment

2013-10-26T10:25:21+00:00

This issue was introduced by 454c79999f7e ("sched/rt: Fix SCHED_RR
across cgroups") that missed the word 'not'. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Li Bin 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382357743-54136-1-git-send-email-huawei.libin@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Add missing rmb()

2013-10-16T12:22:13+00:00

While discussing the proposed SCHED_DEADLINE patches which in parts
mimic the existing FIFO code it was noticed that the wmb in
rt_set_overloaded() didn't have a matching barrier.

The only site using rt_overloaded() to test the rto_count is
pull_rt_task() and we should issue a matching rmb before then assuming
there's an rto_mask bit set.

Without that smp_rmb() in there we could actually miss seeing the
rto_mask bit.

Also, change to using smp_[wr]mb(), even though this is SMP only code;
memory barriers without smp_ always make me think they're against
hardware of some sort.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: luca.abeni@unitn.it
Cc: bruce.ashfield@windriver.com
Cc: dhaval.giani@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: hgu1972@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: darren@dvhart.com
Cc: johan.eker@ericsson.com
Cc: p.faure@akatech.ch
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: raistlin@linux.it
Cc: claudio@evidence.eu.com
Cc: insop.song@gmail.com
Cc: michael@amarulasolutions.com
Cc: liming.wang@windriver.com
Cc: fchecconi@gmail.com
Cc: jkacur@redhat.com
Cc: tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it
Cc: Juri Lelli 
Cc: harald.gustafsson@ericsson.com
Cc: nicola.manica@disi.unitn.it
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131015103507.GF10651@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/numa: Introduce migrate_swap()

2013-10-09T10:40:46+00:00

Use the new stop_two_cpus() to implement migrate_swap(), a function that
flips two tasks between their respective cpus.

I'm fairly sure there's a less crude way than employing the stop_two_cpus()
method, but everything I tried either got horribly fragile and/or complex. So
keep it simple for now.

The notable detail is how we 'migrate' tasks that aren't runnable
anymore. We'll make it appear like we migrated them before they went to
sleep. The sole difference is the previous cpu in the wakeup path, so we
override this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-39-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Remove redundant nr_cpus_allowed test

2013-10-06T09:28:40+00:00

In 76854c7e8f3f4172fef091e78d88b3b751463ac6 ("sched: Use
rt.nr_cpus_allowed to recover select_task_rq() cycles") an
optimization was added to select_task_rq_rt() that immediately
returns when p->nr_cpus_allowed == 1 at the beginning of the
function.

This makes the latter p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1 check redundant,
which can now be removed.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: tomk@rgmadvisors.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1380914693-24634-1-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Simplify pull_rt_task() logic and remove .leaf_rt_rq_list

2013-06-19T10:58:40+00:00

[ Peter, this is based off of some of my work, I ran it though a few
  tests and it passed. I also reviewed it, and added my SOB as I am
  somewhat a co-author to it. ]

Based on the patch by Steven Rostedt from previous year:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/18/517

1)Simplify pull_rt_task() logic: search in pushable tasks of dest runqueue.
The only pullable tasks are the tasks which are pushable in their local rq,
and no others.

2)Remove .leaf_rt_rq_list member of struct rt_rq and functions connected
with it: nobody uses it since now.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/287571370557898@web7d.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Use an accessor to read the rq clock

2013-05-28T07:40:27+00:00

Read the runqueue clock through an accessor. This
prepares for adding a debugging infrastructure to
detect missing or redundant calls to update_rq_clock()
between a scheduler's entry and exit point.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Paul Turner 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Remove redundant update_runtime notifier

2013-05-28T07:40:22+00:00

migration_call() will do all the things that update_runtime() does.
So let's remove it.

Furthermore, there is potential risk that the current code will catch
BUG_ON at line 689 of rt.c when do cpu hotplug while there are realtime
threads running because of enabling runtime twice while the rt_runtime
may already changed.

Signed-off-by: Neil Zhang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365685499-26515-1-git-send-email-zhangwm@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Use this_rq() helper

2013-05-10T08:35:56+00:00

It is a few instructions more efficent to and slightly more
readable to use this_rq()-> instead of cpu_rq(smp_processor_id())-> .

Size comparison of kernel/sched/fair.o:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  27972     122      26   28120    6dd8 fair.o.before
  27956     122      26   28104    6dc8 fair.o.after

Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368116643-87971-1-git-send-email-nzimmer@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar