linux.git/kernel/sched/rt.c, branch v4.13

sched/rt: Move RT related code from sched/core.c to sched/rt.c

2017-06-23T08:46:45+00:00

This helps making sched/core.c smaller and hopefully easier to understand and maintain.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170621182203.30626-3-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Minimize rq->lock contention in do_sched_rt_period_timer()

2017-05-23T08:01:34+00:00

With CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y, do_sched_rt_period_timer() sequentially
takes each CPU's rq->lock. On a large, busy system, the cumulative time it
takes to acquire each lock can be excessive, even triggering a watchdog
timeout.

If rt_rq->rt_time and rt_rq->rt_nr_running are both zero, this function does
nothing while holding the lock, so don't bother taking it at all.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a767637b-df85-912f-ba69-c90ee00a3fb6@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Remove unnecessary condition in push_rt_task()

2017-05-23T08:01:33+00:00

pick_next_pushable_task(rq) has BUG_ON(rq_cpu != task_cpu(task)) when
it returns a task other than NULL, which means that task_cpu(task) must
be rq->cpu. So if task == next_task, then task_cpu(next_task) must be
rq->cpu as well. Remove the redundant condition and make the code simpler.

This way one unnecessary branch and two LOAD operations can be avoided.

Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira 
Cc: 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494551143-22219-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Add comments describing the RT IPI pull method

2017-03-16T08:41:35+00:00

While looking into optimizations for the RT scheduler IPI logic, I realized
that the comments are lacking to describe it efficiently. It deserves a
lengthy description describing its design.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Clark Williams 
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228155030.30c69068@gandalf.local.home
[ Small typographical edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core: Remove the tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() wrapper

2017-03-02T07:42:24+00:00

tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() too is a pretty pointless wrapper that
is not used consistently and which makes the code both harder
to read and longer as well.

So remove it - this also shrinks  a bit.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core: Remove the tsk_cpus_allowed() wrapper

2017-03-02T07:42:24+00:00

So the original intention of tsk_cpus_allowed() was to 'future-proof'
the field - but it's pretty ineffectual at that, because half of
the code uses ->cpus_allowed directly ...

Also, the wrapper makes the code longer than the original expression!

So just get rid of it. This also shrinks  a bit.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2017-02-20T20:52:55+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this (fairly busy) cycle were:

   - There was a class of scheduler bugs related to forgetting to update
     the rq-clock timestamp which can cause weird and hard to debug
     problems, so there's a new debug facility for this: which uncovered
     a whole lot of bugs which convinced us that we want to keep the
     debug facility.

     (Peter Zijlstra, Matt Fleming)

   - Various cputime related updates: eliminate cputime and use u64
     nanoseconds directly, simplify and improve the arch interfaces,
     implement delayed accounting more widely, etc. - (Frederic
     Weisbecker)

   - Move code around for better structure plus cleanups (Ingo Molnar)

   - Move IO schedule accounting deeper into the scheduler plus related
     changes to improve the situation (Tejun Heo)

   - ... plus a round of sched/rt and sched/deadline fixes, plus other
     fixes, updats and cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (85 commits)
  sched/core: Remove unlikely() annotation from sched_move_task()
  sched/autogroup: Rename auto_group.[ch] to autogroup.[ch]
  sched/topology: Split out scheduler topology code from core.c into topology.c
  sched/core: Remove unnecessary #include headers
  sched/rq_clock: Consolidate the ordering of the rq_clock methods
  delayacct: Include 
  sched/core: Clean up comments
  sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds
  sched/clock: Add dummy clear_sched_clock_stable() stub function
  sched/cputime: Remove generic asm headers
  sched/cputime: Remove unused nsec_to_cputime()
  s390, sched/cputime: Remove unused cputime definitions
  powerpc, sched/cputime: Remove unused cputime definitions
  s390, sched/cputime: Make arch_cpu_idle_time() to return nsecs
  ia64, sched/cputime: Remove unused cputime definitions
  ia64: Convert vtime to use nsec units directly
  ia64, sched/cputime: Move the nsecs based cputime headers to the last arch using it
  sched/cputime: Remove jiffies based cputime
  sched/cputime, vtime: Return nsecs instead of cputime_t to account
  sched/cputime: Complete nsec conversion of tick based accounting
  ...

sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds

2017-02-01T10:01:30+00:00

We added the 'sched_rr_timeslice_ms' SCHED_RR tuning knob in this commit:

  ce0dbbbb30ae ("sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice")

... which name suggests to users that it's in milliseconds, while in reality
it's being set in milliseconds but the result is shown in jiffies.

This is obviously confusing when HZ is not 1000, it makes it appear like the
value set failed, such as HZ=100:

  root# echo 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
  root# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
  10

Fix this to be milliseconds all around.

Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485612049-20923-1-git-send-email-shile.zhang@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Add a missing rescheduling point

2017-01-30T10:46:37+00:00

Since the change in commit:

  fd7a4bed1835 ("sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks")

... we don't reschedule a task under certain circumstances:

Lets say task-A, SCHED_OTHER, is running on CPU0 (and it may run only on
CPU0) and holds a PI lock. This task is removed from the CPU because it
used up its time slice and another SCHED_OTHER task is running. Task-B on
CPU1 runs at RT priority and asks for the lock owned by task-A. This
results in a priority boost for task-A. Task-B goes to sleep until the
lock has been made available. Task-A is already runnable (but not active),
so it receives no wake up.

The reality now is that task-A gets on the CPU once the scheduler decides
to remove the current task despite the fact that a high priority task is
enqueued and waiting. This may take a long time.

The desired behaviour is that CPU0 immediately reschedules after the
priority boost which made task-A the task with the lowest priority.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: fd7a4bed1835 ("sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170124144006.29821-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

timers: Omit POSIX timer stuff from task_struct when disabled

2017-01-27T21:05:26+00:00

When CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS is disabled, it is preferable to remove related
structures from struct task_struct and struct signal_struct as they
won't contain anything useful and shouldn't be relied upon by mistake.
Code still referencing those structures is also disabled here.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Signed-off-by: John Stultz