menu "LITMUS^RT"
menu "Scheduling"
config PLUGIN_CEDF
bool "Clustered-EDF"
depends on X86 && SYSFS
default y
help
Include the Clustered EDF (C-EDF) plugin in the kernel.
This is appropriate for large platforms with shared caches.
On smaller platforms (e.g., ARM PB11MPCore), using C-EDF
makes little sense since there aren't any shared caches.
config RECURSIVE_READYQ_LOCK
bool "Recursive Ready Queue Lock"
default n
help
Protects ready queues with a raw recursive spinlock instead
of a normal raw spinlock.
If unsure, say No.
config PLUGIN_PFAIR
bool "PFAIR"
depends on HIGH_RES_TIMERS && !NO_HZ
default y
help
Include the PFAIR plugin (i.e., the PD^2 scheduler) in the kernel.
The PFAIR plugin requires high resolution timers (for staggered quanta)
and does not support NO_HZ (quanta could be missed when the system is idle).
If unsure, say Yes.
config RELEASE_MASTER
bool "Release-master Support"
depends on ARCH_HAS_SEND_PULL_TIMERS
default n
help
Allow one processor to act as a dedicated interrupt processor
that services all timer interrupts, but that does not schedule
real-time tasks. See RTSS'09 paper for details
(http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/papers.html).
Currently only supported by GSN-EDF.
config REALTIME_AUX_TASKS
bool "Real-Time Auxillary Tasks"
depends on LITMUS_LOCKING
default n
help
Adds a system call that forces all non-real-time threads in a process
to become auxillary real-time tasks. These tasks inherit the priority of
the highest-prio *BLOCKED* (but NOT blocked on a Litmus lock) real-time
task (non-auxillary) in the process. This allows the integration of COTS
code that has background helper threads used primarily for message passing
and synchronization. If these background threads are NOT real-time scheduled,
then unbounded priority inversions may occur if a real-time task blocks on
a non-real-time thread.
Beware of the following pitfalls:
1) Auxillary threads should not be CPU intensive. They should mostly
block on mutexes and condition variables. Violating this will
likely prevent meaningful analysis.
2) Since there may be more than one auxillary thread per process,
priority inversions may occur with respect to single-threaded
task models if/when one of threads are scheduled simultanously
with another of the same identity.
choice
prompt "Scheduling prioritization of AUX tasks."
depends on REALTIME_AUX_TASKS
default REALTIME_AUX_TASK_PRIORITY_INHERITANCE
help
Select the prioritization method for auxillary tasks.
config REALTIME_AUX_TASK_PRIORITY_BOOSTED
bool "Boosted"
help
Run all auxillary task threads at a maximum priority. Useful for
temporarily working around bugs during development.
BEWARE: Run-away auxillary tasks will clobber CPUs.
config REALTIME_AUX_TASK_PRIORITY_INHERITANCE
bool "Inheritance"
help
Auxillary tasks inherit the maximum priority from blocked real-time
threads within the same process.
Additional pitfall:
3) Busy-wait deadlock is likely between normal real-time tasks and
auxillary tasks synchronize using _preemptive_ spinlocks that do
not use priority inheritance.
These pitfalls are mitgated by the fact that auxillary tasks only
inherit priorities from blocked tasks (Blocking signifies that the
blocked task _may_ be waiting on an auxillary task to perform some
work.). Futher, auxillary tasks without an inherited priority are
_always_ scheduled with a priority less than any normal real-time task!!
NOTE: Aux tasks do not _directly_ inherit a priority from rt tasks that
are blocked on Litmus locks. Aux task should be COTS code that know nothing
of Litmus, so they won't hold Litmus locks. Nothing the aux task can do can
_directly_ unblock the rt task blocked on a Litmus lock. However, the lock
holder that blocks the rt task CAN block on I/O and contribute its priority
to the aux tasks. Aux tasks may still _indirectly_ inherit the priority of
the blocked rt task via the lock holder.
endchoice
endmenu
menu "Real-Time Synchronization"
config NP_SECTION
bool "Non-preemptive section support"
default n
help
Allow tasks to become non-preemptable.
Note that plugins still need to explicitly support non-preemptivity.
Currently, only GSN-EDF and PSN-EDF have such support.
This is required to support locking protocols such as the FMLP.
If disabled, all tasks will be considered preemptable at all times.
config LITMUS_LOCKING
bool "Support for real-time locking protocols"
depends on NP_SECTION
default n
help
Enable LITMUS^RT's deterministic multiprocessor real-time
locking protocols.
Say Yes if you want to include locking protocols such as the FMLP and
Baker's SRP.
config LITMUS_AFFINITY_LOCKING
bool "Enable affinity infrastructure in k-exclusion locking protocols."
depends on LITMUS_LOCKING
default n
help
Enable affinity tracking infrastructure in k-exclusion locking protocols.
This only enabled the *infrastructure* not actual affinity algorithms.
If unsure, say No.
config LITMUS_NESTED_LOCKING
bool "Support for nested inheritance in locking protocols"
depends on LITMUS_LOCKING
default n
help
Enable nested priority inheritance.
config LITMUS_DGL_SUPPORT
bool "Support for dynamic group locks"
depends on LITMUS_NESTED_LOCKING
default n
help
Enable dynamic group lock support.
config LITMUS_MAX_DGL_SIZE
int "Maximum size of a dynamic group lock."
depends on LITMUS_DGL_SUPPORT
range 1 128
default "10"
help
Dynamic group lock data structures are allocated on the process
stack when a group is requested. We set a maximum size of
locks in a dynamic group lock to avoid dynamic allocation.
TODO: Batch DGL requests exceeding LITMUS_MAX_DGL_SIZE.
endmenu
menu "Performance Enhancements"
config SCHED_CPU_AFFINITY
bool "Local Migration Affinity"
depends on X86
default y
help
Rescheduled tasks prefer CPUs near to their previously used CPU. This
may improve performance through possible preservation of cache affinity.
Warning: May make bugs harder to find since tasks may migrate less often.
NOTES:
* Feature is not utilized by PFair/PD^2.
Say Yes if unsure.
config ALLOW_EARLY_RELEASE
bool "Allow Early Releasing"
default y
help
Allow tasks to release jobs early (while still maintaining job
precedence constraints). Only supported by EDF schedulers. Early
releasing must be explicitly requested by real-time tasks via
the task_params passed to sys_set_task_rt_param().
Early releasing can improve job response times while maintaining
real-time correctness. However, it can easily peg your CPUs
since tasks never suspend to wait for their next job. As such, early
releasing is really only useful in the context of implementing
bandwidth servers, interrupt handling threads, or short-lived
computations.
Beware that early releasing may affect real-time analysis
if using locking protocols or I/O.
Say Yes if unsure.
choice
prompt "EDF Tie-Break Behavior"
default EDF_TIE_BREAK_LATENESS_NORM
help
Allows the configuration of tie-breaking behavior when the deadlines
of two EDF-scheduled tasks are equal.
config EDF_TIE_BREAK_LATENESS
bool "Lateness-based Tie Break"
help
Break ties between two jobs, A and B, based upon the lateness of their
prior jobs. The job with the greatest lateness has priority. Note that
lateness has a negative value if the prior job finished before its
deadline.
config EDF_TIE_BREAK_LATENESS_NORM
bool "Normalized Lateness-based Tie Break"
help
Break ties between two jobs, A and B, based upon the lateness, normalized
by relative deadline, of their prior jobs. The job with the greatest
normalized lateness has priority. Note that lateness has a negative value
if the prior job finished before its deadline.
Normalized lateness tie-breaks are likely desireable over non-normalized
tie-breaks if the execution times and/or relative deadlines of tasks in a
task set vary greatly.
config EDF_TIE_BREAK_HASH
bool "Hash-based Tie Breaks"
help
Break ties between two jobs, A and B, with equal deadlines by using a
uniform hash; i.e.: hash(A.pid, A.job_num) < hash(B.pid, B.job_num). Job
A has ~50% of winning a given tie-break.
NOTES:
* This method doesn't work very well if a tied job has a low-valued
hash while the jobs it ties with do not make progress (that is,
they don't increment to new job numbers). The job with a low-valued
hash job will lose most tie-breaks. This is usually not a problem
unless you are doing something funky in Litmus (ex. worker threads
that do not increment job numbers).
config EDF_PID_TIE_BREAK
bool "PID-based Tie Breaks"
help
Break ties based upon OS-assigned thread IDs. Use this option if
required by algorithm's real-time analysis or per-task response-time
jitter must be minimized.
NOTES:
* This tie-breaking method was default in Litmus 2012.2 and before.
endchoice
endmenu
menu "Tracing"
config FEATHER_TRACE
bool "Feather-Trace Infrastructure"
default y
help
Feather-Trace basic tracing infrastructure. Includes device file
driver and instrumentation point support.
There are actually two implementations of Feather-Trace.
1) A slower, but portable, default implementation.
2) Architecture-specific implementations that rewrite kernel .text at runtime.
If enabled, Feather-Trace will be based on 2) if available (currently only for x86).
However, if DEBUG_RODATA=y, then Feather-Trace will choose option 1) in any case
to avoid problems with write-protected .text pages.
Bottom line: to avoid increased overheads, choose DEBUG_RODATA=n.
Note that this option only enables the basic Feather-Trace infrastructure;
you still need to enable SCHED_TASK_TRACE and/or SCHED_OVERHEAD_TRACE to
actually enable any events.
config SCHED_TASK_TRACE
bool "Trace real-time tasks"
depends on FEATHER_TRACE
default y
help
Include support for the sched_trace_XXX() tracing functions. This
allows the collection of real-time task events such as job
completions, job releases, early completions, etc. This results in a
small overhead in the scheduling code. Disable if the overhead is not
acceptable (e.g., benchmarking).
Say Yes for debugging.
Say No for overhead tracing.
config SCHED_TASK_TRACE_SHIFT
int "Buffer size for sched_trace_xxx() events"
depends on SCHED_TASK_TRACE
range 8 15
default 9
help
Select the buffer size of sched_trace_xxx() events as a power of two.
These buffers are statically allocated as per-CPU data. Each event
requires 24 bytes storage plus one additional flag byte. Too large
buffers can cause issues with the per-cpu allocator (and waste
memory). Too small buffers can cause scheduling events to be lost. The
"right" size is workload dependent and depends on the number of tasks,
each task's period, each task's number of suspensions, and how often
the buffer is flushed.
Examples: 12 => 4k events
10 => 1k events
8 => 512 events
config SCHED_LITMUS_TRACEPOINT
bool "Enable Event/Tracepoint Tracing for real-time task tracing"
depends on TRACEPOINTS
default n
help
Enable kernel-style events (tracepoint) for Litmus. Litmus events
trace the same functions as the above sched_trace_XXX(), but can
be enabled independently.
Litmus tracepoints can be recorded and analyzed together (single
time reference) with all other kernel tracing events (e.g.,
sched:sched_switch, etc.).
This also enables a quick way to visualize schedule traces using
trace-cmd utility and kernelshark visualizer.
Say Yes for debugging and visualization purposes.
Say No for overhead tracing.
config SCHED_OVERHEAD_TRACE
bool "Record timestamps for overhead measurements"
depends on FEATHER_TRACE
default n
help
Export event stream for overhead tracing.
Say Yes for overhead tracing.
config SCHED_DEBUG_TRACE
bool "TRACE() debugging"
default y
help
Include support for sched_trace_log_messageg(), which is used to
implement TRACE(). If disabled, no TRACE() messages will be included
in the kernel, and no overheads due to debugging statements will be
incurred by the scheduler. Disable if the overhead is not acceptable
(e.g. benchmarking).
Say Yes for debugging.
Say No for overhead tracing.
config SCHED_DEBUG_TRACE_SHIFT
int "Buffer size for TRACE() buffer"
depends on SCHED_DEBUG_TRACE
range 14 22
default 18
help
Select the amount of memory needed per for the TRACE() buffer, as a
power of two. The TRACE() buffer is global and statically allocated. If
the buffer is too small, there will be holes in the TRACE() log if the
buffer-flushing task is starved.
The default should be sufficient for most systems. Increase the buffer
size if the log contains holes. Reduce the buffer size when running on
a memory-constrained system.
Examples: 14 => 16KB
18 => 256KB
20 => 1MB
This buffer is exported to usespace using a misc device as
'litmus/log'. On a system with default udev rules, a corresponding
character device node should be created at /dev/litmus/log. The buffer
can be flushed using cat, e.g., 'cat /dev/litmus/log > my_log_file.txt'.
config SCHED_DEBUG_TRACE_CALLER
bool "Include [function@file:line] tag in TRACE() log"
depends on SCHED_DEBUG_TRACE
default n
help
With this option enabled, TRACE() prepends
"[<function name>@<filename>:<line number>]"
to each message in the debug log. Enable this to aid in figuring out
what was called in which order. The downside is that it adds a lot of
clutter.
If unsure, say No.
config PREEMPT_STATE_TRACE
bool "Trace preemption state machine transitions"
depends on SCHED_DEBUG_TRACE && DEBUG_KERNEL
default n
help
With this option enabled, each CPU will log when it transitions
states in the preemption state machine. This state machine is
used to determine how to react to IPIs (avoid races with in-flight IPIs).
Warning: this creates a lot of information in the debug trace. Only
recommended when you are debugging preemption-related races.
If unsure, say No.
endmenu
menu "Interrupt Handling"
choice
prompt "Scheduling of interrupt bottom-halves in Litmus."
default LITMUS_SOFTIRQD_NONE
depends on LITMUS_LOCKING
help
Schedule tasklets with known priorities in Litmus.
config LITMUS_SOFTIRQD_NONE
bool "No tasklet scheduling in Litmus."
help
Don't schedule tasklets in Litmus. Default.
config LITMUS_SOFTIRQD
bool "Enable klmirqd interrupt (and workqueue) handling threads."
help
Create klmirqd interrupt handling threads. Work must be
specifically dispatched to these workers. (Softirqs for
Litmus tasks are not magically redirected to klmirqd.)
G-EDF, C-EDF ONLY for now!
endchoice
config LITMUS_NVIDIA
bool "Litmus handling of NVIDIA driver."
default n
help
Enable Litmus control of NVIDIA driver tasklet/workqueues.
If unsure, say No.
config LITMUS_NVIDIA_NONSPLIT_INTERRUPTS
bool "Execute NVIDIA interrupts with top-halves."
depends on LITMUS_NVIDIA
default n
help
Tasklets orginating from the NVIDIA driver are executed
immediatly in interrupt-space. This implements non-split
interrupt handling for GPUs. Feature intended mainly for
debugging, as it allows one to avoid having to rely
upon PAI or klmirqd interrupt handling.
If unsure, say No.
choice
prompt "Litmus handling of NVIDIA workqueues."
depends on LITMUS_NVIDIA
default LITMUS_NVIDIA_WORKQ_OFF
help
Select method for handling NVIDIA workqueues.
config LITMUS_NVIDIA_WORKQ_OFF
bool "Use Linux's default work queues."
help
Let Linux process all NVIDIA work queue items.
config LITMUS_NVIDIA_WORKQ_ON
bool "Schedule work with interrupt thread."
depends on LITMUS_SOFTIRQD
help
Direct work queue items from NVIDIA devices Litmus's
klmirqd handling routines. Use the same thread
as interrupt handling.
config LITMUS_NVIDIA_WORKQ_ON_DEDICATED
bool "Sechedule work in dedicated threads."
depends on LITMUS_SOFTIRQD
help
Direct work queue items from NVIDIA devices to Litmus's
klmirqd handling routines. Use dedicated thread for
work (seperate thread from interrupt handling).
endchoice
config LITMUS_AFFINITY_AWARE_GPU_ASSINGMENT
bool "Enable affinity-aware heuristics to improve GPU assignment."
depends on LITMUS_NVIDIA && LITMUS_AFFINITY_LOCKING
default n
help
Enable several heuristics to improve the assignment
of GPUs to real-time tasks to reduce the overheads
of memory migrations.
If unsure, say No.
config NV_DEVICE_NUM
int "Number of NVIDIA GPUs."
depends on LITMUS_NVIDIA
range 1 16
default "1"
help
Should be (<= to the number of CPUs) and
(<= to the number of GPUs) in your system.
choice
prompt "CUDA/Driver Version Support"
default NV_DRV_319_37
depends on LITMUS_NVIDIA
help
Select the version of NVIDIA driver to support.
Note: Some of the configurations below may work
with other versions of the NVIDIA driver, but
the layouts of data structures in litmus/nvidia_info.c
will have to be manually compared against
<driver>/kernel/nv.h and nv-linux.h in the driver's
GPL shim layer.
config NV_DRV_331_13
bool "331.13 (post-CUDA 5.5)
depends on LITMUS_NVIDIA && REALTIME_AUX_TASKS
help
NV Driver 331.13. (An updated driver released
after CUDA 5.5.)
config NV_DRV_325_15
bool "325.15 (post-CUDA 5.5)
depends on LITMUS_NVIDIA && REALTIME_AUX_TASKS
help
NV Driver 325.15. (An updated driver released
after CUDA 5.5.)
config NV_DRV_319_37
bool "319.37 (CUDA 5.5)"
depends on LITMUS_NVIDIA && REALTIME_AUX_TASKS
help
NV Driver 319.37. (distributed with CUDA 5.5)
config NV_DRV_304_54
bool "304.54 (CUDA 5.0)"
depends on LITMUS_NVIDIA && REALTIME_AUX_TASKS
help
NV Driver 304.54. (distributed with CUDA 5.0)
config NV_DRV_295_40
bool "295.40 (CUDA 4.2)"
depends on LITMUS_NVIDIA
help
NV Driver 295.40. (distributed with CUDA 4.2)
config NV_DRV_270_41
bool "270.41 (CUDA 4.0)"
depends on LITMUS_NVIDIA
help
NV Driver 270.41. (distributed with CUDA 4.0)
endchoice
config LITMUS_NV_KLMIRQD_DEBUG
bool "Raise fake sporadic tasklets to test nv klimirqd threads."
depends on LITMUS_NVIDIA && LITMUS_SOFTIRQD
default n
help
Causes tasklets to be sporadically dispatched to waiting klmirqd
threads. WARNING! Kernel panic may occur if you switch between
LITMUS plugins!
endmenu
endmenu
