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* Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-10-01
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "Continued quest to clean up and enhance the cputime code by Frederic Weisbecker, in preparation for future tickless kernel features. Other than that, smallish changes." Fix up trivial conflicts due to additions next to each other in arch/{x86/}Kconfig * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) cputime: Make finegrained irqtime accounting generally available cputime: Gather time/stats accounting config options into a single menu ia64: Reuse system and user vtime accounting functions on task switch ia64: Consolidate user vtime accounting vtime: Consolidate system/idle context detection cputime: Use a proper subsystem naming for vtime related APIs sched: cpu_power: enable ARCH_POWER sched/nohz: Clean up select_nohz_load_balancer() sched: Fix load avg vs. cpu-hotplug sched: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW sched: Fix nohz_idle_balance() sched: Remove useless code in yield_to() sched: Add time unit suffix to sched sysctl knobs sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on sysctl sched: Remove AFFINE_WAKEUPS feature flag s390: Remove leftover account_tick_vtime() header cputime: Consolidate vtime handling on context switch sched: Move cputime code to its own file cputime: Generalize CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING tile: Remove SD_PREFER_LOCAL leftover ...
| * sched/nohz: Clean up select_nohz_load_balancer()Alex Shi2012-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no load_balancer to be selected now. It just sets the state of the nohz tick to stop. So rename the function, pass the 'cpu' as a parameter and then remove the useless call from tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(). [ s/set_nohz_tick_stopped/nohz_balance_enter_idle/g s/clear_nohz_tick_stopped/nohz_balance_exit_idle/g ] Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347261059-24747-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * sched: Fix nohz_idle_balance()Vincent Guittot2012-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On tickless systems, one CPU runs load balance for all idle CPUs. The cpu_load of this CPU is updated before starting the load balance of each other idle CPUs. We should instead update the cpu_load of the balance_cpu. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347509486-8688-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar2012-09-04
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge in the current fixes branch, we are going to apply dependent patches. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * | sched: recover SD_WAKE_AFFINE in select_task_rq_fair and code clean upAlex Shi2012-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since power saving code was removed from sched now, the implement code is out of service in this function, and even pollute other logical. like, 'want_sd' never has chance to be set '0', that remove the effect of SD_WAKE_AFFINE here. So, clean up the obsolete code, includes SD_PREFER_LOCAL. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5028F431.6000306@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | sched: using dst_rq instead of this_rq during load balanceMichael Wang2012-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As we already have dst_rq in lb_env, using or changing "this_rq" do not make sense. This patch will replace "this_rq" with dst_rq in load_balance, and we don't need to change "this_rq" while process LBF_SOME_PINNED any more. Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/501F8357.3070102@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | sched: Fix __sched_period commentBorislav Petkov2012-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It should be sched_nr_latency so fix it before it annoys me more. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344435364-18632-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | | Revert "sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random ↵Linus Torvalds2012-09-16
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perturbations" This reverts commit 970e178985cadbca660feb02f4d2ee3a09f7fdda. Nikolay Ulyanitsky reported thatthe 3.6-rc5 kernel has a 15-20% performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 on his machine (running "pgbench"). Borislav Petkov was able to reproduce this, and bisected it to this commit 970e178985ca ("sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies' ...") apparently because the new single-idle-buddy model simply doesn't find idle CPU's to reschedule on aggressively enough. Mike Galbraith suspects that it is likely due to the user-mode spinlocks in PostgreSQL not reacting well to preemption, but we don't really know the details - I'll just revert the commit for now. There are hopefully other approaches to improve scheduler scalability without it causing these kinds of downsides. Reported-by: Nikolay Ulyanitsky <lystor@gmail.com> Bisected-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | sched: Fix kernel-doc warnings in kernel/sched/fair.cRandy Dunlap2012-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix two kernel-doc warnings in kernel/sched/fair.c: Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3660): Excess function parameter 'cpus' description in 'update_sg_lb_stats' Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3806): Excess function parameter 'cpus' description in 'update_sd_lb_stats' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50303714.3090204@xenotime.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | sched: Unthrottle rt runqueues in __disable_runtime()Peter Boonstoppel2012-09-04
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | migrate_tasks() uses _pick_next_task_rt() to get tasks from the real-time runqueues to be migrated. When rt_rq is throttled _pick_next_task_rt() won't return anything, in which case migrate_tasks() can't move all threads over and gets stuck in an infinite loop. Instead unthrottle rt runqueues before migrating tasks. Additionally: move unthrottle_offline_cfs_rqs() to rq_offline_fair() Signed-off-by: Peter Boonstoppel <pboonstoppel@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5FBF8E85CA34454794F0F7ECBA79798F379D3648B7@HQMAIL04.nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched, cgroup: Reduce rq->lock hold times for large cgroup hierarchiesPeter Zijlstra2012-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Peter Portante reported that for large cgroup hierarchies (and or on large CPU counts) we get immense lock contention on rq->lock and stuff stops working properly. His workload was a ton of processes, each in their own cgroup, everybody idling except for a sporadic wakeup once every so often. It was found that: schedule() idle_balance() load_balance() local_irq_save() double_rq_lock() update_h_load() walk_tg_tree(tg_load_down) tg_load_down() Results in an entire cgroup hierarchy walk under rq->lock for every new-idle balance and since new-idle balance isn't throttled this results in a lot of work while holding the rq->lock. This patch does two things, it removes the work from under rq->lock based on the good principle of race and pray which is widely employed in the load-balancer as a whole. And secondly it throttles the update_h_load() calculation to max once per jiffy. I considered excluding update_h_load() for new-idle balance all-together, but purely relying on regular balance passes to update this data might not work out under some rare circumstances where the new-idle busiest isn't the regular busiest for a while (unlikely, but a nightmare to debug if someone hits it and suffers). Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reported-by: Peter Portante <pportant@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-aaarrzfpnaam7pqrekofu8a6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* sched/cleanups: Add load balance cpumask pointer to 'struct lb_env'Michael Wang2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | With this patch struct ld_env will have a pointer of the load balancing cpumask and we don't need to pass a cpumask around anymore. Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FFE8665.3080705@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched: Improve balance_cpu() to consider other cpus in its group as target ↵Srivatsa Vaddagiri2012-07-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | of (pinned) task Current load balance scheme requires only one cpu in a sched_group (balance_cpu) to look at other peer sched_groups for imbalance and pull tasks towards itself from a busy cpu. Tasks thus pulled by balance_cpu could later get picked up by cpus that are in the same sched_group as that of balance_cpu. This scheme however fails to pull tasks that are not allowed to run on balance_cpu (but are allowed to run on other cpus in its sched_group). That can affect fairness and in some worst case scenarios cause starvation. Consider a two core (2 threads/core) system running tasks as below: Core0 Core1 / \ / \ C0 C1 C2 C3 | | | | v v v v F0 T1 F1 [idle] T2 F0 = SCHED_FIFO task (pinned to C0) F1 = SCHED_FIFO task (pinned to C2) T1 = SCHED_OTHER task (pinned to C1) T2 = SCHED_OTHER task (pinned to C1 and C2) F1 could become a cpu hog, which will starve T2 unless C1 pulls it. Between C0 and C1 however, C0 is required to look for imbalance between cores, which will fail to pull T2 towards Core0. T2 will starve eternally in this case. The same scenario can arise in presence of non-rt tasks as well (say we replace F1 with high irq load). We tackle this problem by having balance_cpu move pinned tasks to one of its sibling cpus (where they can run). We first check if load balance goal can be met by ignoring pinned tasks, failing which we retry move_tasks() with a new env->dst_cpu. This patch modifies load balance semantics on who can move load towards a given cpu in a given sched_domain. Before this patch, a given_cpu or a ilb_cpu acting on behalf of an idle given_cpu is responsible for moving load to given_cpu. With this patch applied, balance_cpu can in addition decide on moving some load to a given_cpu. There is a remote possibility that excess load could get moved as a result of this (balance_cpu and given_cpu/ilb_cpu deciding *independently* and at *same* time to move some load to a given_cpu). However we should see less of such conflicting decisions in practice and moreover subsequent load balance cycles should correct the excess load moved to given_cpu. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE06CDB.2060605@linux.vnet.ibm.com [ minor edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched: Reset loop counters if all tasks are pinned and we need to redo load ↵Prashanth Nageshappa2012-07-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | balance While load balancing, if all tasks on the source runqueue are pinned, we retry after excluding the corresponding source cpu. However, loop counters env.loop and env.loop_break are not reset before retrying, which can lead to failure in moving the tasks. In this patch we reset env.loop and env.loop_break to their inital values before we retry. Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE06EEF.2090709@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched: Reorder 'struct lb_env' members to reduce its sizePrashanth Nageshappa2012-07-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Members of 'struct lb_env' are not in appropriate order to reuse compiler added padding on 64bit architectures. In this patch we reorder those struct members and help reduce the size of the structure from 96 bytes to 80 bytes on 64 bit architectures. Suggested-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE06DDE.7000403@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random ↵Mike Galbraith2012-07-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perturbations Traversing an entire package is not only expensive, it also leads to tasks bouncing all over a partially idle and possible quite large package. Fix that up by assigning a 'buddy' CPU to try to motivate. Each buddy may try to motivate that one other CPU, if it's busy, tough, it may then try its SMT sibling, but that's all this optimization is allowed to cost. Sibling cache buddies are cross-wired to prevent bouncing. 4 socket 40 core + SMT Westmere box, single 30 sec tbench runs, higher is better: clients 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 .......................................................................... pre 30 41 118 645 3769 6214 12233 14312 post 299 603 1211 2418 4697 6847 11606 14557 A nice increase in performance. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339471112.7352.32.camel@marge.simpson.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-06-08
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar. * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Fix the relax_domain_level boot parameter sched: Validate assumptions in sched_init_numa() sched: Always initialize cpu-power sched: Fix domain iteration sched/rt: Fix lockdep annotation within find_lock_lowest_rq() sched/numa: Load balance between remote nodes sched/x86: Calculate booted cores after construction of sibling_mask
| * sched: Always initialize cpu-powerPeter Zijlstra2012-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Often when we run into mis-shapen topologies the balance iteration fails to update the cpu power properly and we'll end up in /0 traps. Always initialize the cpu-power to a semi-sane value so that we can at least boot the machine, even if the load-balancer might not function correctly. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3lbhyj25sr169ha7z3qht5na@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * sched: Fix domain iterationPeter Zijlstra2012-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Weird topologies can lead to asymmetric domain setups. This needs further consideration since these setups are typically non-minimal too. For now, make it work by adding an extra mask selecting which CPUs are allowed to iterate up. The topology that triggered it is the one from David Rientjes: 10 20 20 30 20 10 20 20 20 20 10 20 30 20 20 10 resulting in boxes that wouldn't even boot. Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3p86l9cuaqnxz7uxsojmz5rm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | sched/fair: fix lots of kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap2012-06-08
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix lots of new kernel-doc warnings in kernel/sched/fair.c: Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3625): No description found for parameter 'env' Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3625): Excess function parameter 'sd' description in 'update_sg_lb_stats' Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3735): No description found for parameter 'env' Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3735): Excess function parameter 'sd' description in 'update_sd_pick_busiest' Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3735): Excess function parameter 'this_cpu' description in 'update_sd_pick_busiest' .. more warnings Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched: Move nr_cpus_allowed out of 'struct sched_rt_entity'Peter Zijlstra2012-05-30
| | | | | | | | | Since nr_cpus_allowed is used outside of sched/rt.c and wants to be used outside of there more, move it to a more natural site. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kr61f02y9brwzkh6x53pdptm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched: Make sure to not re-read variables after validationPeter Zijlstra2012-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | We could re-read rq->rt_avg after we validated it was smaller than total, invalidating the check and resulting in an unintended negative. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337688268.9698.29.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched: Fix SD_OVERLAPPeter Zijlstra2012-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SD_OVERLAP exists to allow overlapping groups, overlapping groups appear in NUMA topologies that aren't fully connected. The typical result of not fully connected NUMA is that each cpu (or rather node) will have different spans for a particular distance. However due to how sched domains are traversed -- only the first cpu in the mask goes one level up -- the next level only cares about the spans of the cpus that went up. Due to this two things were observed to be broken: - build_overlap_sched_groups() -- since its possible the cpu we're building the groups for exists in multiple (or all) groups, the selection criteria of the first group didn't ensure there was a cpu for which is was true that cpumask_first(span) == cpu. Thus load- balancing would terminate. - update_group_power() -- assumed that the cpu span of the first group of the domain was covered by all groups of the child domain. The above explains why this isn't true, so deal with it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337788843.9783.14.camel@laptop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobsPeter Zijlstra2012-05-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's been broken forever (i.e. it's not scheduling in a power aware fashion), as reported by Suresh and others sending patches, and nobody cares enough to fix it properly ... so remove it to make space free for something better. There's various problems with the code as it stands today, first and foremost the user interface which is bound to topology levels and has multiple values per level. This results in a state explosion which the administrator or distro needs to master and almost nobody does. Furthermore large configuration state spaces aren't good, it means the thing doesn't just work right because it's either under so many impossibe to meet constraints, or even if there's an achievable state workloads have to be aware of it precisely and can never meet it for dynamic workloads. So pushing this kind of decision to user-space was a bad idea even with a single knob - it's exponentially worse with knobs on every node of the topology. There is a proposal to replace the user interface with a single 3 state knob: sched_balance_policy := { performance, power, auto } where 'auto' would be the preferred default which looks at things like Battery/AC mode and possible cpufreq state or whatever the hw exposes to show us power use expectations - but there's been no progress on it in the past many months. Aside from that, the actual implementation of the various knobs is known to be broken. There have been sporadic attempts at fixing things but these always stop short of reaching a mergable state. Therefore this wholesale removal with the hopes of spurring people who care to come forward once again and work on a coherent replacement. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326104915.2442.53.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched/fair: Improve the ->group_imb logicPeter Zijlstra2012-05-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Group imbalance is meant to deal with situations where affinity masks and sched domains don't align well, such as 3 cpus from one group and 6 from another. In this case the domain based balancer will want to put an equal amount of tasks on each side even though they don't have equal cpus. Currently group_imb is set whenever two cpus of a group have a weight difference of at least one avg task and the heaviest cpu has at least two tasks. A group with imbalance set will always be picked as busiest and a balance pass will be forced. The problem is that even if there are no affinity masks this stuff can trigger and cause weird balancing decisions, eg. the observed behaviour was that of 6 cpus, 5 had 2 and 1 had 3 tasks, due to the difference of 1 avg load (they all had the same weight) and nr_running being >1 the group_imbalance logic triggered and did the weird thing of pulling more load instead of trying to move the 1 excess task to the other domain of 6 cpus that had 5 cpu with 2 tasks and 1 cpu with 1 task. Curb the group_imbalance stuff by making the nr_running condition weaker by also tracking the min_nr_running and using the difference in nr_running over the set instead of the absolute max nr_running. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9s7dedozxo8kjsb9kqlrukkf@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[] calculationsPeter Zijlstra2012-05-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While investigating why the load-balancer did funny I found that the rq->cpu_load[] tables were completely screwy.. a bit more digging revealed that the updates that got through were missing ticks followed by a catchup of 2 ticks. The catchup assumes the cpu was idle during that time (since only nohz can cause missed ticks and the machine is idle etc..) this means that esp. the higher indices were significantly lower than they ought to be. The reason for this is that its not correct to compare against jiffies on every jiffy on any other cpu than the cpu that updates jiffies. This patch cludges around it by only doing the catch-up stuff from nohz_idle_balance() and doing the regular stuff unconditionally from the tick. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tp4kj18xdd5aj4vvj0qg55s2@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched/fair: Revert sched-domain iteration breakagePeter Zijlstra2012-05-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patches c22402a2f ("sched/fair: Let minimally loaded cpu balance the group") and 0ce90475 ("sched/fair: Add some serialization to the sched_domain load-balance walk") are horribly broken so revert them. The problem is that while it sounds good to have the minimally loaded cpu do the pulling of more load, the way we walk the domains there is absolutely no guarantee this cpu will actually get to the domain. In fact its very likely it wont. Therefore the higher up the tree we get, the less likely it is we'll balance at all. The first of mask always walks up, while sucky in that it accumulates load on the first cpu and needs extra passes to spread it out at least guarantees a cpu gets up that far and load-balancing happens at all. Since its now always the first and idle cpus should always be able to balance so they get a task as fast as possible we can also do away with the added serialization. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rpuhs5s56aiv1aw7khv9zkw6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched/fair: Propagate 'struct lb_env' usage into find_busiest_groupPeter Zijlstra2012-05-09
| | | | | | | | More function argument passing reduction. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v66ivjfqdiqdso01lqgqx6qf@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched/fair: Add some serialization to the sched_domain load-balance walkPeter Zijlstra2012-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | Since the sched_domain walk is completely unserialized (!SD_SERIALIZE) it is possible that multiple cpus in the group get elected to do the next level. Avoid this by adding some serialization. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vqh9ai6s0ewmeakjz80w4qz6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched/fair: Let minimally loaded cpu balance the groupPeter Zijlstra2012-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we let the leftmost (or first idle) cpu ascend the sched_domain tree and perform load-balancing. The result is that the busiest cpu in the group might be performing this function and pull more load to itself. The next load balance pass will then try to equalize this again. Change this to pick the least loaded cpu to perform higher domain balancing. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v8zlrmgmkne3bkcy9dej1fvm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched: Change rq->nr_running to unsigned intPeter Zijlstra2012-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since there's a PID space limit of 30bits (see futex.h:FUTEX_TID_MASK) and allocating that many tasks (assuming a lower bound of 2 pages per task) would still take 8T of memory it seems reasonable to say that unsigned int is sufficient for rq->nr_running. When we do get anywhere near that amount of tasks I suspect other things would go funny, load-balancer load computations would really need to be hoisted to 128bit etc. So save a few bytes and convert rq->nr_running and friends to unsigned int. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-y3tvyszjdmbibade5bw8zl81@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched: Fix more load-balancing falloutPeter Zijlstra2012-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commits 367456c756a6 ("sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing") and 5d6523ebd ("sched: Fix load-balance wreckage") left some more wreckage. By setting loop_max unconditionally to ->nr_running load-balancing could take a lot of time on very long runqueues (hackbench!). So keep the sysctl as max limit of the amount of tasks we'll iterate. Furthermore, the min load filter for migration completely fails with cgroups since inequality in per-cpu state can easily lead to such small loads :/ Furthermore the change to add new tasks to the tail of the queue instead of the head seems to have some effect.. not quite sure I understand why. Combined these fixes solve the huge hackbench regression reported by Tim when hackbench is ran in a cgroup. Reported-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335365763.28150.267.camel@twins [ got rid of the CONFIG_PREEMPT tuning and made small readability edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-03-29
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar. * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: cpusets: Remove an unused variable sched/rt: Improve pick_next_highest_task_rt() sched: Fix select_fallback_rq() vs cpu_active/cpu_online sched/x86/smp: Do not enable IRQs over calibrate_delay() sched: Fix compiler warning about declared inline after use MAINTAINERS: Update email address for SCHEDULER and PERF EVENTS
| * sched: Fix compiler warning about declared inline after usePeter Zijlstra2012-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kernel/sched/fair.c:420: warning: 'account_cfs_rq_runtime' declared inline after being called kernel/sched/fair.c:420: warning: previous declaration of 'account_cfs_rq_runtime' was here kernel/sched/fair.c:1165: warning: 'return_cfs_rq_runtime' declared inlineafter being called kernel/sched/fair.c:1165: warning: previous declaration of 'return_cfs_rq_runtime' was here Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120321200717.49BB4A024E@akpm.mtv.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-03-20
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits) printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again! sched: Update yield() docs printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness sched: Fix load-balance wreckage sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice() sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing sched: Rename load-balancing fields sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled() sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled() sched/rt: Do not throttle when PI boosting sched/rt: Keep period timer ticking when rt throttling is active ...
| * sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancerDiwakar Tundlam2012-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 'next_balance' field of 'nohz' idle balancer must be initialized to jiffies. Since jiffies is initialized to negative 300 seconds the 'nohz' idle balancer does not run for the first 300s (5mins) after bootup. If no new processes are spawed or no idle cycles happen, the load on the cpus will remain unbalanced for that duration. Signed-off-by: Diwakar Tundlam <dtundlam@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1DD7BFEDD3147247B1355BEFEFE4665237994F30EF@HQMAIL04.nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * sched: Fix load-balance wreckagePeter Zijlstra2012-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 367456c ("sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing") completely wrecked load-balancing due to a few silly mistakes. Correct those and remove more pointless code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zk04ihygwxn7qqrlpaf73b0r@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancingPeter Zijlstra2012-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per cgroup load-balance has numerous problems, chief amongst them that there is no real sane order in them. So stop pretending it makes sense and enqueue all tasks on a single list. This also allows us to more easily fix the fwd progress issue uncovered by the lock-break stuff. Rotate the list on failure to migreate and limit the total iterations to nr_running (which with releasing the lock isn't strictly accurate but close enough). Also add a filter that skips very light tasks on the first attempt around the list, this attempts to avoid shooting whole cgroups around without affecting over balance. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: pjt@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tx8yqydc7eimgq7i4rkc3a4g@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * sched: Rename load-balancing fieldsPeter Zijlstra2012-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | s/env->this_/env->dst_/g s/env->busiest_/env->src_/g s/pull_task/move_task/g Makes everything clearer. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: pjt@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0yvgms8t8x962drpvl0fu0kk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper structPeter Zijlstra2012-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Passing large sets of similar arguments all around the load-balancer gets tiresom when you want to modify something. Stick them all in a helper structure and pass the structure around. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: pjt@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5slqz0vhsdzewrfk9eza1aon@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar2012-03-01
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: we'll queue up dependent patches. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Remove rcu_read_lock/unlock() from select_idle_sibling()Nikunj A. Dadhania2012-02-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | select_idle_sibling() is called from select_task_rq_fair(), which already has the RCU read lock held. Signed-off-by: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120217030409.11748.12491.stgit@abhimanyu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Move SMP-only variable into the SMP sectionHiroshi Shimamoto2012-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This also fixes the following compilation warning on !SMP: CC kernel/sched/fair.o kernel/sched/fair.c:218:36: warning: 'max_load_balance_interval' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable] Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F2754A0.9090306@ct.jp.nec.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Ensure cpu_power periodic updateVincent Guittot2012-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With a lot of small tasks, the softirq sched is nearly never called when no_hz is enabled. In this case load_balance() is mainly called with the newly_idle mode which doesn't update the cpu_power. Add a next_update field which ensure a maximum update period when there is short activity. Having stale cpu_power information can skew the load-balancing decisions, this is cured by the guaranteed update. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323717668-2143-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
* | | Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar2012-03-05
|\ \ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: tools/perf/builtin-record.c tools/perf/builtin-top.c tools/perf/perf.h tools/perf/util/top.h Merge reason: resolve these cherry-picking conflicts. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched/events: Revert trace_sched_stat_sleeptime()Peter Zijlstra2012-02-22
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 1ac9bc69 ("sched/tracing: Add a new tracepoint for sleeptime") added a new sched:sched_stat_sleeptime tracepoint. It's broken: the first sample we get on a task might be bad because of a stale sleep_start value that wasn't reset at the last task switch because the tracepoint was not active. It also breaks the existing schedstat samples due to the side effects of: - se->statistics.sleep_start = 0; ... - se->statistics.block_start = 0; Nor do I see means to fix it without adding overhead to the scheduler fast path, which I'm not willing to for the sake of redundant instrumentation. Most importantly, sleep time information can already be constructed by tracing context switches and wakeups, and taking the timestamp difference between the schedule-out, the wakeup and the schedule-in. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pc4c9qhl8q6vg3bs4j6k0rbd@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* / static keys: Introduce 'struct static_key', static_key_true()/false() and ↵Ingo Molnar2012-02-24
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | static_key_slow_[inc|dec]() So here's a boot tested patch on top of Jason's series that does all the cleanups I talked about and turns jump labels into a more intuitive to use facility. It should also address the various misconceptions and confusions that surround jump labels. Typical usage scenarios: #include <linux/static_key.h> struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_TRUE; if (static_key_false(&key)) do unlikely code else do likely code Or: if (static_key_true(&key)) do likely code else do unlikely code The static key is modified via: static_key_slow_inc(&key); ... static_key_slow_dec(&key); The 'slow' prefix makes it abundantly clear that this is an expensive operation. I've updated all in-kernel code to use this everywhere. Note that I (intentionally) have not pushed through the rename blindly through to the lowest levels: the actual jump-label patching arch facility should be named like that, so we want to decouple jump labels from the static-key facility a bit. On non-jump-label enabled architectures static keys default to likely()/unlikely() branches. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120222085809.GA26397@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched/nohz: Fix nohz cpu idle load balancing state with cpu hotplugSuresh Siddha2012-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the recent nohz scheduler changes, rq's nohz flag 'NOHZ_TICK_STOPPED' and its associated state doesn't get cleared immediately after the cpu exits idle. This gets cleared as part of the next tick seen on that cpu. For the cpu offline support, we need to clear this state manually. Fix it by registering a cpu notifier, which clears the nohz idle load balance state for this rq explicitly during the CPU_DYING notification. There won't be any nohz updates for that cpu, after the CPU_DYING notification. But lets be extra paranoid and skip updating the nohz state in the select_nohz_load_balancer() if the cpu is not in active state anymore. Reported-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-and-tested-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327026538.16150.40.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Fix lockup by limiting load-balance retries on lock-breakPeter Zijlstra2012-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eric and David reported dead machines and traced it to commit a195f004 ("sched: Fix load-balance lock-breaking"), it turns out there's still a scenario where we can end up re-trying forever. Since there is no strict forward progress guarantee in the load-balance iteration we can get stuck re-retrying the same task-set over and over. Creating a forward progress guarantee with the existing structure is somewhat non-trivial, for now simply terminate the retry loop after a few tries. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> [ logic cleanup as suggested by Eric ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326297936.2442.157.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched/tracing: Add a new tracepoint for sleeptimeArun Sharma2011-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is defined, the kernel maintains information about how long the task was sleeping or in the case of iowait, blocking in the kernel before getting woken up. This will be useful for sleep time profiling. Note: this information is only provided for sched_fair. Other scheduling classes may choose to provide this in the future. Note: the delay includes the time spent on the runqueue as well. Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324512940-32060-2-git-send-email-asharma@fb.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>