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Linus Torvalds 37407ea7f9 Revert "sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random perturbations"
This reverts commit 970e178985.

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 970e178985 ("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>
2012-09-16 12:29:43 -07:00
Alex Shi c1cc017c59 sched/nohz: Clean up select_nohz_load_balancer()
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>
2012-09-13 16:52:05 +02:00
Vincent Guittot 5ed4f1d96d sched: Fix nohz_idle_balance()
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>
2012-09-13 16:52:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 59f979455d Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge in the current fixes branch, we are going to apply dependent patches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-04 14:31:00 +02:00
Randy Dunlap 9450d57eab sched: Fix kernel-doc warnings in kernel/sched/fair.c
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>
2012-09-04 14:30:49 +02:00
Peter Boonstoppel a4c96ae319 sched: Unthrottle rt runqueues in __disable_runtime()
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>
2012-09-04 14:30:30 +02:00
Alex Shi f03542a701 sched: recover SD_WAKE_AFFINE in select_task_rq_fair and code clean up
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>
2012-08-13 19:02:05 +02:00
Michael Wang 78feefc512 sched: using dst_rq instead of this_rq during load balance
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>
2012-08-13 18:58:15 +02:00
Borislav Petkov 532b1858c5 sched: Fix __sched_period comment
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>
2012-08-13 18:58:15 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra a35b6466aa sched, cgroup: Reduce rq->lock hold times for large cgroup hierarchies
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>
2012-08-13 18:41:54 +02:00
Michael Wang b9403130a5 sched/cleanups: Add load balance cpumask pointer to 'struct lb_env'
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>
2012-07-31 17:00:16 +02:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri 88b8dac0a1 sched: Improve balance_cpu() to consider other cpus in its group as target 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>
2012-07-24 13:58:06 +02:00
Prashanth Nageshappa bbf18b1949 sched: Reset loop counters if all tasks are pinned and we need to redo load 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>
2012-07-24 13:55:37 +02:00
Prashanth Nageshappa 85c1e7dae1 sched: Reorder 'struct lb_env' members to reduce its size
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>
2012-07-24 13:55:20 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 970e178985 sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random 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>
2012-07-24 13:53:34 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 7249450449 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of 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
2012-06-08 14:59:29 -07:00
Randy Dunlap cd96891d48 sched/fair: fix lots of kernel-doc warnings
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>
2012-06-08 14:59:10 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra c3decf0dfb sched: Always initialize cpu-power
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>
2012-06-06 16:52:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c117487687 sched: Fix domain iteration
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>
2012-06-06 16:52:26 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 29baa7478b sched: Move nr_cpus_allowed out of 'struct sched_rt_entity'
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>
2012-05-30 14:02:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b654f7de41 sched: Make sure to not re-read variables after validation
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>
2012-05-30 14:02:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 74a5ce20e6 sched: Fix SD_OVERLAP
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>
2012-05-30 14:02:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8e7fbcbc22 sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobs
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>
2012-05-17 13:48:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra e44bc5c5d0 sched/fair: Improve the ->group_imb logic
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>
2012-05-14 15:05:28 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 556061b00c sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[] calculations
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>
2012-05-14 15:05:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 04f733b4af sched/fair: Revert sched-domain iteration breakage
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>
2012-05-14 15:05:26 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra bd939f45da sched/fair: Propagate 'struct lb_env' usage into find_busiest_group
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>
2012-05-09 15:00:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 0ce90475dc sched/fair: Add some serialization to the sched_domain load-balance walk
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>
2012-05-09 15:00:53 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c22402a2f7 sched/fair: Let minimally loaded cpu balance the group
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>
2012-05-09 15:00:51 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c82513e513 sched: Change rq->nr_running to unsigned int
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>
2012-05-09 15:00:49 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra eb95308ee2 sched: Fix more load-balancing fallout
Commits 367456c756 ("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>
2012-04-26 12:54:52 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 7fda0412c5 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of 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
2012-03-29 14:46:05 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 6c16a6dcb0 sched: Fix compiler warning about declared inline after use
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>
2012-03-23 10:39:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 2ba68940c8 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of 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
  ...
2012-03-20 10:31:44 -07:00
Diwakar Tundlam 554cecaf73 sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer
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>
2012-03-12 20:43:16 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 5d6523ebd2 sched: Fix load-balance wreckage
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>
2012-03-12 20:43:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 737f24bda7 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
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>
2012-03-05 09:20:08 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 367456c756 sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing
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>
2012-03-01 13:08:37 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra ddcdf6e7d9 sched: Rename load-balancing fields
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>
2012-03-01 10:51:23 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 8e45cb545d sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct
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>
2012-03-01 10:51:22 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 7e4d960993 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: we'll queue up dependent patches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-01 10:26:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar c5905afb0e static keys: Introduce 'struct static_key', static_key_true()/false() and 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>
2012-02-24 10:05:59 +01:00
Nikunj A. Dadhania 62f6536a63 sched: Remove rcu_read_lock/unlock() from select_idle_sibling()
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>
2012-02-22 12:28:28 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 8c79a045fd sched/events: Revert trace_sched_stat_sleeptime()
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>
2012-02-22 12:06:55 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto ed387b781e sched: Move SMP-only variable into the SMP section
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>
2012-01-31 13:40:59 +01:00
Vincent Guittot 4ec4412e1e sched: Ensure cpu_power periodic update
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
2012-01-27 13:28:49 +01:00
Suresh Siddha 71325960d1 sched/nohz: Fix nohz cpu idle load balancing state with cpu hotplug
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>
2012-01-26 19:38:13 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra bced76aeac sched: Fix lockup by limiting load-balance retries on lock-break
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>
2012-01-11 17:15:12 +01:00
Arun Sharma 1ac9bc6943 sched/tracing: Add a new tracepoint for sleeptime
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>
2011-12-23 17:56:17 +01:00
Daisuke Nishimura 62af3783e4 sched: Fix cgroup movement of waking process
There is a small race between try_to_wake_up() and sched_move_task(),
which is trying to move the process being woken up.

    try_to_wake_up() on CPU0       sched_move_task() on CPU1
--------------------------------+---------------------------------
  raw_spin_lock_irqsave(p->pi_lock)
  task_waking_fair()
    ->p.se.vruntime -= cfs_rq->min_vruntime
  ttwu_queue()
    ->send reschedule IPI to CPU1
  raw_spin_unlock_irqsave(p->pi_lock)
                                   task_rq_lock()
                                     -> tring to aquire both p->pi_lock and
                                        rq->lock with IRQ disabled
                                   task_move_group_fair()
                                     -> p.se.vruntime
                                          -= (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime
                                          += (new)cfs_rq->min_vruntime
                                   task_rq_unlock()

                                   (via IPI)
                                   sched_ttwu_pending()
                                     raw_spin_lock(rq->lock)
                                     ttwu_do_activate()
                                       ...
                                       enqueue_entity()
                                         child.se->vruntime += cfs_rq->min_vruntime
                                     raw_spin_unlock(rq->lock)

As a result, vruntime of the process becomes far bigger than min_vruntime,
if (new)cfs_rq->min_vruntime >> (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime.

This patch fixes this problem by just ignoring such process in
task_move_group_fair(), because the vruntime has already been normalized in
task_waking_fair().

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111215143741.df82dd50.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21 10:34:52 +01:00
Daisuke Nishimura 7ceff013c4 sched: Fix cgroup movement of newly created process
There is a small race between do_fork() and sched_move_task(), which is
trying to move the child.

            do_fork()                 sched_move_task()
--------------------------------+---------------------------------
  copy_process()
    sched_fork()
      task_fork_fair()
        -> vruntime of the child is initialized
           based on that of the parent.
  -> we can see the child in "tasks" file now.
                                    task_rq_lock()
                                    task_move_group_fair()
                                      -> child.se.vruntime
                                           -= (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime
                                           += (new)cfs_rq->min_vruntime
                                    task_rq_unlock()
  wake_up_new_task()
    ...
    enqueue_entity()
      child.se.vruntime += cfs_rq->min_vruntime

As a result, vruntime of the child becomes far bigger than min_vruntime,
if (new)cfs_rq->min_vruntime >> (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime.

This patch fixes this problem by just ignoring such process in
task_move_group_fair(), because the vruntime has already been normalized in
task_fork_fair().

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111215143607.2ee12c5d.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21 10:34:51 +01:00
Daisuke Nishimura 4fc420c91f sched: Fix cgroup movement of forking process
There is a small race between task_fork_fair() and sched_move_task(),
which is trying to move the parent.

        task_fork_fair()                 sched_move_task()
--------------------------------+---------------------------------
  cfs_rq = task_cfs_rq(current)
    -> cfs_rq is the "old" one.
  curr = cfs_rq->curr
    -> curr is set to the parent.
                                    task_rq_lock()
                                    dequeue_task()
                                      ->parent.se.vruntime -= (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime
                                    enqueue_task()
                                      ->parent.se.vruntime += (new)cfs_rq->min_vruntime
                                    task_rq_unlock()
  raw_spin_lock_irqsave(rq->lock)
  se->vruntime = curr->vruntime
    -> vruntime of the child is set to that of the parent
       which has already been updated by sched_move_task().
  se->vruntime -= (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime.
  raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(rq->lock)

As a result, vruntime of the child becomes far bigger than expected,
if (new)cfs_rq->min_vruntime >> (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime.

This patch fixes this problem by setting "cfs_rq" and "curr" after
holding the rq->lock.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111215143655.662676b0.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21 10:34:49 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra a195f004e9 sched: Fix load-balance lock-breaking
The current lock break relies on contention on the rq locks, something
which might never come because we've got IRQs disabled. Or will be
very likely because on anything with more than 2 cpus a synchronized
load-balance pass will very likely cause contention on the rq locks.

Also the sched_nr_migrate thing fails when it gets trapped the loops
of either the cgroup muck in load_balance_fair() or the move_tasks()
load condition.

Instead, use the new lb_flags field to propagate break/abort
conditions for all these loops and create a new loop outside the irq
disabled on the break being required.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tsceb6w61q0gakmsccix6xxi@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21 10:34:47 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 5b54b56be5 sched: Replace all_pinned with a generic flags field
Replace the all_pinned argument with a flags field so that we can add
some extra controls throughout that entire call chain.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-33kevm71m924ok1gpxd720v3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21 10:34:45 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 518cd62341 sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries
Mike reported a 13% drop in netperf TCP_RR performance due to the
new remote wakeup code. Suresh too noticed some performance issues
with it.

Reducing the IPIs to only cross cache domains solves the observed
performance issues.

Reported-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323338531.17673.7.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21 10:34:44 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 067491b731 sched, nohz: Fix missing RCU read lock
Yong Zhang reported:

 > [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
 > kernel/sched/fair.c:5091 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

This is due to the sched_domain stuff being RCU protected and
commit 0b005cf5 ("sched, nohz: Implement sched group, domain
aware nohz idle load balancing") overlooking this fact.

The sd variable only lives inside the for_each_domain() block,
so we only need to wrap that.

Reported-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323264728.32012.107.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-08 05:45:48 +01:00
Suresh Siddha cd490c5b28 sched, nohz: Set the NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK flag for idle load balancer
Intention is to set the NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK flag for the 'ilb_cpu'. Not
for the 'cpu' which is the local cpu. Fix the typo.

Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.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/1323199594.1984.18.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 20:51:29 +01:00
Suresh Siddha 8a6d42d1b3 sched, nohz: Fix the idle cpu check in nohz_idle_balance
cpu bit in the nohz.idle_cpu_mask are reset in the first busy tick after
exiting idle. So during nohz_idle_balance(), intention is to double
check if the cpu that is part of the idle_cpu_mask is indeed idle before
going ahead in performing idle balance for that cpu.

Fix the cpu typo in the idle_cpu() check during nohz_idle_balance().

Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.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/1323199177.1984.12.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 20:51:27 +01:00
Mike Galbraith b39e66eaf9 sched: Save some hrtick_start_fair cycles
hrtick_start_fair() shows up in profiles even when disabled.

v3.0.6

taskset -c 3 pipe-test

   PerfTop:     997 irqs/sec  kernel:89.5%  exact:  0.0% [1000Hz cycles],  (all, CPU: 3)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

             Virgin                                    Patched
             samples  pcnt function                    samples  pcnt function
             _______ _____ ___________________________ _______ _____ ___________________________

             2880.00 10.2% __schedule                  3136.00 11.3% __schedule
             1634.00  5.8% pipe_read                   1615.00  5.8% pipe_read
             1458.00  5.2% system_call                 1534.00  5.5% system_call
             1382.00  4.9% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave      1412.00  5.1% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
             1202.00  4.3% pipe_write                  1255.00  4.5% copy_user_generic_string
             1164.00  4.1% copy_user_generic_string    1241.00  4.5% __switch_to
             1097.00  3.9% __switch_to                  929.00  3.3% mutex_lock
              872.00  3.1% mutex_lock                   846.00  3.0% mutex_unlock
              687.00  2.4% mutex_unlock                 804.00  2.9% pipe_write
              682.00  2.4% native_sched_clock           713.00  2.6% native_sched_clock
              643.00  2.3% system_call_after_swapgs     653.00  2.3% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
              617.00  2.2% sched_clock_local            633.00  2.3% fsnotify
              612.00  2.2% fsnotify                     605.00  2.2% sched_clock_local
              596.00  2.1% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore  593.00  2.1% system_call_after_swapgs
              542.00  1.9% sysret_check                 559.00  2.0% sysret_check
              467.00  1.7% fget_light                   472.00  1.7% fget_light
              462.00  1.6% finish_task_switch           461.00  1.7% finish_task_switch
              437.00  1.5% vfs_write                    442.00  1.6% vfs_write
              431.00  1.5% do_sync_write                428.00  1.5% do_sync_write
              413.00  1.5% select_task_rq_fair          404.00  1.5% _raw_spin_lock_irq
              386.00  1.4% update_curr                  402.00  1.4% update_curr
              385.00  1.4% rw_verify_area               389.00  1.4% do_sync_read
              377.00  1.3% _raw_spin_lock_irq           378.00  1.4% vfs_read
              369.00  1.3% do_sync_read                 340.00  1.2% pipe_iov_copy_from_user
              360.00  1.3% vfs_read                     316.00  1.1% __wake_up_sync_key
*             342.00  1.2% hrtick_start_fair            313.00  1.1% __wake_up_common

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
[ fixed !CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK borkage ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321971607.6855.17.camel@marge.simson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 20:51:20 +01:00
Suresh Siddha 786d6dc7ae sched, nohz: Clean up the find_new_ilb() using sched groups nr_busy_cpus
nr_busy_cpus in the sched_group_power indicates whether the group
is semi idle or not. This helps remove the is_semi_idle_group() and simplify
the find_new_ilb() in the context of finding an optimal cpu that can do
idle load balancing.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202010832.656983582@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 09:06:36 +01:00
Suresh Siddha 0b005cf54e sched, nohz: Implement sched group, domain aware nohz idle load balancing
When there are many logical cpu's that enter and exit idle often, members of
the global nohz data structure are getting modified very frequently causing
lot of cache-line contention.

Make the nohz idle load balancing more scalabale by using the sched domain
topology and 'nr_busy_cpu's in the struct sched_group_power.

Idle load balance is kicked on one of the idle cpu's when there is atleast
one idle cpu and:

 - a busy rq having more than one task or

 - a busy rq's scheduler group that share package resources (like HT/MC
   siblings) and has more than one member in that group busy or

 - for the SD_ASYM_PACKING domain, if the lower numbered cpu's in that
   domain are idle compared to the busy ones.

This will help in kicking the idle load balancing request only when
there is a potential imbalance. And once it is mostly balanced, these kicks will
be minimized.

These changes helped improve the workload that is context switch intensive
between number of task pairs by 2x on a 8 socket NHM-EX based system.

Reported-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202010832.602203411@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 09:06:34 +01:00
Suresh Siddha 69e1e811dc sched, nohz: Track nr_busy_cpus in the sched_group_power
Introduce nr_busy_cpus in the struct sched_group_power [Not in sched_group
because sched groups are duplicated for the SD_OVERLAP scheduler domain]
and for each cpu that enters and exits idle, this parameter will
be updated in each scheduler group of the scheduler domain that this cpu
belongs to.

To avoid the frequent update of this state as the cpu enters
and exits idle, the update of the stat during idle exit is
delayed to the first timer tick that happens after the cpu becomes busy.
This is done using NOHZ_IDLE flag in the struct rq's nohz_flags.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202010832.555984323@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 09:06:32 +01:00
Suresh Siddha 1c792db7f7 sched, nohz: Introduce nohz_flags in 'struct rq'
Introduce nohz_flags in the struct rq, which will track these two flags
for now.

NOHZ_TICK_STOPPED keeps track of the tick stopped status that gets set when
the tick is stopped. It will be used to update the nohz idle load balancer data
structures during the first busy tick after the tick is restarted. At this
first busy tick after tickless idle, NOHZ_TICK_STOPPED flag will be reset.
This will minimize the nohz idle load balancer status updates that currently
happen for every tickless exit, making it more scalable when there
are many logical cpu's that enter and exit idle often.

NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK will track the need for nohz idle load balance
on this rq. This will replace the nohz_balance_kick in the rq, which was
not being updated atomically.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202010832.499438999@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 09:06:30 +01:00
Mike Galbraith 916671c08b sched: Set skip_clock_update in yield_task_fair()
This is another case where we are on our way to schedule(),
so can save a useless clock update and resulting microscopic
vruntime update.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321971686.6855.18.camel@marge.simson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 09:06:24 +01:00
Mike Galbraith 76854c7e8f sched: Use rt.nr_cpus_allowed to recover select_task_rq() cycles
rt.nr_cpus_allowed is always available, use it to bail from select_task_rq()
when only one cpu can be used, and saves some cycles for pinned tasks.

See the line marked with '*' below:

  # taskset -c 3 pipe-test

   PerfTop:     997 irqs/sec  kernel:89.5%  exact:  0.0% [1000Hz cycles],  (all, CPU: 3)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

             Virgin                                    Patched
             samples  pcnt function                    samples  pcnt function
             _______ _____ ___________________________ _______ _____ ___________________________

             2880.00 10.2% __schedule                  3136.00 11.3% __schedule
             1634.00  5.8% pipe_read                   1615.00  5.8% pipe_read
             1458.00  5.2% system_call                 1534.00  5.5% system_call
             1382.00  4.9% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave      1412.00  5.1% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
             1202.00  4.3% pipe_write                  1255.00  4.5% copy_user_generic_string
             1164.00  4.1% copy_user_generic_string    1241.00  4.5% __switch_to
             1097.00  3.9% __switch_to                  929.00  3.3% mutex_lock
              872.00  3.1% mutex_lock                   846.00  3.0% mutex_unlock
              687.00  2.4% mutex_unlock                 804.00  2.9% pipe_write
              682.00  2.4% native_sched_clock           713.00  2.6% native_sched_clock
              643.00  2.3% system_call_after_swapgs     653.00  2.3% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
              617.00  2.2% sched_clock_local            633.00  2.3% fsnotify
              612.00  2.2% fsnotify                     605.00  2.2% sched_clock_local
              596.00  2.1% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore  593.00  2.1% system_call_after_swapgs
              542.00  1.9% sysret_check                 559.00  2.0% sysret_check
              467.00  1.7% fget_light                   472.00  1.7% fget_light
              462.00  1.6% finish_task_switch           461.00  1.7% finish_task_switch
              437.00  1.5% vfs_write                    442.00  1.6% vfs_write
              431.00  1.5% do_sync_write                428.00  1.5% do_sync_write
*             413.00  1.5% select_task_rq_fair          404.00  1.5% _raw_spin_lock_irq
              386.00  1.4% update_curr                  402.00  1.4% update_curr
              385.00  1.4% rw_verify_area               389.00  1.4% do_sync_read
              377.00  1.3% _raw_spin_lock_irq           378.00  1.4% vfs_read
              369.00  1.3% do_sync_read                 340.00  1.2% pipe_iov_copy_from_user
              360.00  1.3% vfs_read                     316.00  1.1% __wake_up_sync_key
              342.00  1.2% hrtick_start_fair            313.00  1.1% __wake_up_common

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321971504.6855.15.camel@marge.simson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:51:26 +01:00
Suresh Siddha 77e81365e0 sched: Clean up domain traversal in select_idle_sibling()
Instead of going through the scheduler domain hierarchy multiple times
(for giving priority to an idle core over an idle SMT sibling in a busy
core), start with the highest scheduler domain with the SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES
flag and traverse the domain hierarchy down till we find an idle group.

This cleanup also addresses an issue reported by Mike where the recent
changes returned the busy thread even in the presence of an idle SMT
sibling in single socket platforms.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321556904.15339.25.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:51:25 +01:00
Andrew Vagin b781a602ac events, sched: Add tracepoint for accounting blocked time
This tracepoint shows how long a task is sleeping in uninterruptible state.

E.g. it may show how long and where a mutex is waited for.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322471015-107825-8-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:51:23 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 391e43da79 sched: Move all scheduler bits into kernel/sched/
There's too many sched*.[ch] files in kernel/, give them their own
directory.

(No code changed, other than Makefile glue added.)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-11-17 12:20:22 +01:00