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authorDario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>2013-11-28 05:14:43 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-01-13 07:41:06 -0500
commitaab03e05e8f7e26f51dee792beddcb5cca9215a5 (patch)
treebae7f6033c849e7ca77a98783c732caea412ae75 /kernel/fork.c
parentd50dde5a10f305253cbc3855307f608f8a3c5f73 (diff)
sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE structures & implementation
Introduces the data structures, constants and symbols needed for SCHED_DEADLINE implementation. Core data structure of SCHED_DEADLINE are defined, along with their initializers. Hooks for checking if a task belong to the new policy are also added where they are needed. Adds a scheduling class, in sched/dl.c and a new policy called SCHED_DEADLINE. It is an implementation of the Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling algorithm, augmented with a mechanism (called Constant Bandwidth Server, CBS) that makes it possible to isolate the behaviour of tasks between each other. The typical -deadline task will be made up of a computation phase (instance) which is activated on a periodic or sporadic fashion. The expected (maximum) duration of such computation is called the task's runtime; the time interval by which each instance need to be completed is called the task's relative deadline. The task's absolute deadline is dynamically calculated as the time instant a task (better, an instance) activates plus the relative deadline. The EDF algorithms selects the task with the smallest absolute deadline as the one to be executed first, while the CBS ensures each task to run for at most its runtime every (relative) deadline length time interval, avoiding any interference between different tasks (bandwidth isolation). Thanks to this feature, also tasks that do not strictly comply with the computational model sketched above can effectively use the new policy. To summarize, this patch: - introduces the data structures, constants and symbols needed; - implements the core logic of the scheduling algorithm in the new scheduling class file; - provides all the glue code between the new scheduling class and the core scheduler and refines the interactions between sched/dl and the other existing scheduling classes. Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com> Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-4-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 6023d150a305..e6c0f1a22914 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1311,7 +1311,9 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
1311#endif 1311#endif
1312 1312
1313 /* Perform scheduler related setup. Assign this task to a CPU. */ 1313 /* Perform scheduler related setup. Assign this task to a CPU. */
1314 sched_fork(clone_flags, p); 1314 retval = sched_fork(clone_flags, p);
1315 if (retval)
1316 goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy;
1315 1317
1316 retval = perf_event_init_task(p); 1318 retval = perf_event_init_task(p);
1317 if (retval) 1319 if (retval)