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Peter Zijlstra 944770ab54 sched/deadline: Replace NR_CPUS arrays
Tejun reported that his resume was failing due to order-3 allocations
from sched_domain building.

Replace the NR_CPUS arrays in there with a dynamically allocated
array.

Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kat4gl1m5a6dwy6nzuqox45e@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-05-22 10:21:28 +02:00
Juri Lelli 6bfd6d72f5 sched/deadline: speed up SCHED_DEADLINE pushes with a push-heap
Data from tests confirmed that the original active load balancing
logic didn't scale neither in the number of CPU nor in the number of
tasks (as sched_rt does).

Here we provide a global data structure to keep track of deadlines
of the running tasks in the system. The structure is composed by
a bitmask showing the free CPUs and a max-heap, needed when the system
is heavily loaded.

The implementation and concurrent access scheme are kept simple by
design. However, our measurements show that we can compete with sched_rt
on large multi-CPUs machines [1].

Only the push path is addressed, the extension to use this structure
also for pull decisions is straightforward. However, we are currently
evaluating different (in order to decrease/avoid contention) data
structures to solve possibly both problems. We are also going to re-run
tests considering recent changes inside cpupri [2].

 [1] http://retis.sssup.it/~jlelli/papers/Ospert11Lelli.pdf
 [2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg06778.html

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-14-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:46:46 +01:00