linux/kernel/sched/rt.c, branch v4.0

sched/rt: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible target

2015-01-30T18:38:49Z

This patch adds checks that prevens futile attempts to move rt tasks to a CPU with active tasks of equal or higher priority. This reduces run queue lock contention and improves the performance of a well known OLTP benchmark by 0.7%. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Shawn Bohrer Cc: Suruchi Kadu Cc: Doug Nelson Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421430374.2399.27.camel@schen9-desk2.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core: Rework rq->clock update skips

2015-01-14T12:34:20Z

The original purpose of rq::skip_clock_update was to avoid 'costly' clock updates for back to back wakeup-preempt pairs. The big problem with it has always been that the rq variable is unaware of the context and causes indiscrimiate clock skips. Rework the entire thing and create a sense of context by only allowing schedule() to skip clock updates. (XXX can we measure the cost of the added store?) By ensuring only schedule can ever skip an update, we guarantee we're never more than 1 tick behind on the update. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150105103554.432381549@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Move p->nr_cpus_allowed check to select_task_rq()

2014-11-16T09:58:55Z

Move the p->nr_cpus_allowed check into kernel/sched/core.c: select_task_rq(). This change will make fair.c, rt.c, and deadline.c all start with the same logic. Suggested-and-Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: "pang.xunlei" Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415150077-59053-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to pick up fixes before applying more changes

2014-11-16T09:50:25Z

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/cputime: Fix clock_nanosleep()/clock_gettime() inconsistency

2014-11-16T09:04:20Z

Commit d670ec13178d0 "posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles" fixes one glibc test case in cost of breaking another one. After that commit, calling clock_nanosleep(TIMER_ABSTIME, X) and then clock_gettime(&Y) can result of Y time being smaller than X time. Reproducer/tester can be found further below, it can be compiled and ran by: gcc -o tst-cpuclock2 tst-cpuclock2.c -pthread while ./tst-cpuclock2 ; do : ; done This reproducer, when running on a buggy kernel, will complain about "clock_gettime difference too small". Issue happens because on start in thread_group_cputimer() we initialize sum_exec_runtime of cputimer with threads runtime not yet accounted and then add the threads runtime to running cputimer again on scheduler tick, making it's sum_exec_runtime bigger than actual threads runtime. KOSAKI Motohiro posted a fix for this problem, but that patch was never applied: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/26/191 . This patch takes different approach to cure the problem. It calls update_curr() when cputimer starts, that assure we will have updated stats of running threads and on the next schedule tick we will account only the runtime that elapsed from cputimer start. That also assure we have consistent state between cpu times of individual threads and cpu time of the process consisted by those threads. Full reproducer (tst-cpuclock2.c): #define _GNU_SOURCE #include #include #include #include #include #include #include /* Parameters for the Linux kernel ABI for CPU clocks. */ #define CPUCLOCK_SCHED 2 #define MAKE_PROCESS_CPUCLOCK(pid, clock) \ ((~(clockid_t) (pid) << 3) | (clockid_t) (clock)) static pthread_barrier_t barrier; /* Help advance the clock. */ static void *chew_cpu(void *arg) { pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier); while (1) ; return NULL; } /* Don't use the glibc wrapper. */ static int do_nanosleep(int flags, const struct timespec *req) { clockid_t clock_id = MAKE_PROCESS_CPUCLOCK(0, CPUCLOCK_SCHED); return syscall(SYS_clock_nanosleep, clock_id, flags, req, NULL); } static int64_t tsdiff(const struct timespec *before, const struct timespec *after) { int64_t before_i = before->tv_sec * 1000000000ULL + before->tv_nsec; int64_t after_i = after->tv_sec * 1000000000ULL + after->tv_nsec; return after_i - before_i; } int main(void) { int result = 0; pthread_t th; pthread_barrier_init(&barrier, NULL, 2); if (pthread_create(&th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL) != 0) { perror("pthread_create"); return 1; } pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier); /* The test. */ struct timespec before, after, sleeptimeabs; int64_t sleepdiff, diffabs; const struct timespec sleeptime = {.tv_sec = 0,.tv_nsec = 100000000 }; /* The relative nanosleep. Not sure why this is needed, but its presence seems to make it easier to reproduce the problem. */ if (do_nanosleep(0, &sleeptime) != 0) { perror("clock_nanosleep"); return 1; } /* Get the current time. */ if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &before) < 0) { perror("clock_gettime[2]"); return 1; } /* Compute the absolute sleep time based on the current time. */ uint64_t nsec = before.tv_nsec + sleeptime.tv_nsec; sleeptimeabs.tv_sec = before.tv_sec + nsec / 1000000000; sleeptimeabs.tv_nsec = nsec % 1000000000; /* Sleep for the computed time. */ if (do_nanosleep(TIMER_ABSTIME, &sleeptimeabs) != 0) { perror("absolute clock_nanosleep"); return 1; } /* Get the time after the sleep. */ if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &after) < 0) { perror("clock_gettime[3]"); return 1; } /* The time after sleep should always be equal to or after the absolute sleep time passed to clock_nanosleep. */ sleepdiff = tsdiff(&sleeptimeabs, &after); if (sleepdiff < 0) { printf("absolute clock_nanosleep woke too early: %" PRId64 "\n", sleepdiff); result = 1; printf("Before %llu.%09llu\n", before.tv_sec, before.tv_nsec); printf("After %llu.%09llu\n", after.tv_sec, after.tv_nsec); printf("Sleep %llu.%09llu\n", sleeptimeabs.tv_sec, sleeptimeabs.tv_nsec); } /* The difference between the timestamps taken before and after the clock_nanosleep call should be equal to or more than the duration of the sleep. */ diffabs = tsdiff(&before, &after); if (diffabs < sleeptime.tv_nsec) { printf("clock_gettime difference too small: %" PRId64 "\n", diffabs); result = 1; } pthread_cancel(th); return result; } Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141112155843.GA24803@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Clean up check_preempt_equal_prio()

2014-11-04T06:17:52Z

This patch checks if current can be pushed/pulled somewhere else in advance to make logic clear, the same behavior as dl class. - If current can't be migrated, useless to reschedule, let's hope task can move out. - If task is migratable, so let's not schedule it and see if it can be pushed or pulled somewhere else. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1414708776-124078-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2014-10-15T05:48:18Z

Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo: "Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately and had their own accessors. The distinction has been gone for many years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other operations over time. During the process, we also accumulated other inconsistent operations. This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the duplicate accessor situation. __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr(). Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr(). This converts most of the uses but not all. Christoph will follow up with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully remove the obsolete accessors" * 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits) irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write. percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses" percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses s390: cio driver &__get_cpu_var replacements s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator. arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr ...

sched/rt: Use resched_curr() in task_tick_rt()

2014-09-24T12:47:12Z

Some time ago PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED was implemented, so reschedule technics is a little more difficult now. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140922183642.11015.66039.stgit@localhost Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Remove useless if from cleanup pick_next_task_rt()

2014-09-19T10:35:20Z

_pick_next_task_rt() never returns NULL. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410529321.3569.26.camel@tkhai Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t

2014-08-28T12:58:57Z

__get_cpu_var can paper over differences in the definitions of cpumask_var_t and either use the address of the cpumask variable directly or perform a fetch of the address of the struct cpumask allocated elsewhere. This is important particularly when using per cpu cpumask_var_t declarations because in one case we have an offset into a per cpu area to handle and in the other case we need to fetch a pointer from the offset. This patch introduces a new macro this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr() that is defined where cpumask_var_t is defined and performs the proper actions. All use cases where __get_cpu_var is used with cpumask_var_t are converted to the use of this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr(). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo