linux/kernel/sched/rt.c, branch v4.1

sched/core: Remove unused argument from init_[rt|dl]_rq()

2015-04-02T15:42:55Z

Obviously, 'rq' is not used in these two functions, therefore, there is no reason for it to be passed as an argument. Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425383427-26244-1-git-send-email-abelvesa@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Use IPI to trigger RT task push migration instead of pulling

2015-03-23T09:55:22Z

When debugging the latencies on a 40 core box, where we hit 300 to 500 microsecond latencies, I found there was a huge contention on the runqueue locks. Investigating it further, running ftrace, I found that it was due to the pulling of RT tasks. The test that was run was the following: cyclictest --numa -p95 -m -d0 -i100 This created a thread on each CPU, that would set its wakeup in iterations of 100 microseconds. The -d0 means that all the threads had the same interval (100us). Each thread sleeps for 100us and wakes up and measures its latencies. cyclictest is maintained at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clrkwllms/rt-tests.git What happened was another RT task would be scheduled on one of the CPUs that was running our test, when the other CPU tests went to sleep and scheduled idle. This caused the "pull" operation to execute on all these CPUs. Each one of these saw the RT task that was overloaded on the CPU of the test that was still running, and each one tried to grab that task in a thundering herd way. To grab the task, each thread would do a double rq lock grab, grabbing its own lock as well as the rq of the overloaded CPU. As the sched domains on this box was rather flat for its size, I saw up to 12 CPUs block on this lock at once. This caused a ripple affect with the rq locks especially since the taking was done via a double rq lock, which means that several of the CPUs had their own rq locks held while trying to take this rq lock. As these locks were blocked, any wakeups or load balanceing on these CPUs would also block on these locks, and the wait time escalated. I've tried various methods to lessen the load, but things like an atomic counter to only let one CPU grab the task wont work, because the task may have a limited affinity, and we may pick the wrong CPU to take that lock and do the pull, to only find out that the CPU we picked isn't in the task's affinity. Instead of doing the PULL, I now have the CPUs that want the pull to send over an IPI to the overloaded CPU, and let that CPU pick what CPU to push the task to. No more need to grab the rq lock, and the push/pull algorithm still works fine. With this patch, the latency dropped to just 150us over a 20 hour run. Without the patch, the huge latencies would trigger in seconds. I've created a new sched feature called RT_PUSH_IPI, which is enabled by default. When RT_PUSH_IPI is not enabled, the old method of grabbing the rq locks and having the pulling CPU do the work is implemented. When RT_PUSH_IPI is enabled, the IPI is sent to the overloaded CPU to do a push. To enabled or disable this at run time: # mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug # echo RT_PUSH_IPI > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features or # echo NO_RT_PUSH_IPI > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features Update: This original patch would send an IPI to all CPUs in the RT overload list. But that could theoretically cause the reverse issue. That is, there could be lots of overloaded RT queues and one CPU lowers its priority. It would then send an IPI to all the overloaded RT queues and they could then all try to grab the rq lock of the CPU lowering its priority, and then we have the same problem. The latest design sends out only one IPI to the first overloaded CPU. It tries to push any tasks that it can, and then looks for the next overloaded CPU that can push to the source CPU. The IPIs stop when all overloaded CPUs that have pushable tasks that have priorities greater than the source CPU are covered. In case the source CPU lowers its priority again, a flag is set to tell the IPI traversal to restart with the first RT overloaded CPU after the source CPU. Parts-suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Joern Engel Cc: Clark Williams Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150318144946.2f3cc982@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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