The latencytop and sleep accounting code assumes that any
scheduler entity represents a task, this is not so.
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I spotted two sites that didn't take vruntime wrap-around into
account. Fix these by creating a comparison helper that does do
so.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
One of the isolation modifications for SCHED_IDLE is the
unitization of sleeper credit. However the check for this
assumes that the sched_entity we're placing always belongs to a
task.
This is potentially not true with group scheduling and leaves
us rummaging randomly when we try to pull the policy.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907101649570.29914@kitami.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Access to local variable lw is aliased by usage of pointer load.
Access to pointer load in calc_delta_mine() happens when lw is
already out of scope.
[ Reported by static code analysis. ]
Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <christian.engelmayer@frequentis.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090616103512.0c846e51@frequentis.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: micro-optimization
Under group scheduling we traverse up until we are at common siblings
to make the wakeup comparison on.
At this point however, they should have the same parent so continuing
to check up the tree is redundant.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904081520320.30317@kitami.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Similar to the previous patch, by not clearing buddies we can select entities
past their run quota, which can increase latency. This means we have to clear
group buddies as well.
Do not use the group clear for pick_next_task(), otherwise that'll get O(n^2).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It was noticed that a task could get re-elected past its run quota due to buddy
affinities. This could increase latency a little. Cure it by more aggresively
clearing buddy state.
We do so in two situations:
- when we force preempt
- when we select a buddy to run
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Pawel Dziekonski reported that the openssl benchmark and his
quantum chemistry application both show slowdowns due to the
scheduler under-parallelizing execution.
The reason are pipe wakeups still doing 'sync' wakeups which
overrides the normal buddy wakeup logic - even if waker and
wakee are loosely coupled.
Fix an inversion of logic in the buddy wakeup code.
Reported-by: Pawel Dziekonski <dzieko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mike's change: 0a582440f "sched: fix sched_slice())" broke group
scheduling by forgetting to reload cfs_rq on each loop.
This patch fixes aim7 regression and specjbb2005 regression becomes
less than 1.5% on 8-core stokley.
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Jayson King <dev@jaysonking.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix SCHED_IDLE latency problems
OK, so we have 1 running task A (which is obviously curr and the tree is
equally obviously empty).
'A' nicely chugs along, doing its thing, carrying min_vruntime along as it
goes.
Then some whacko speed freak SCHED_IDLE task gets inserted due to SMP
balancing, which is very likely far right, in that case
update_curr
update_min_vruntime
cfs_rq->rb_leftmost := true (the crazy task sitting in a tree)
vruntime = se->vruntime
and voila, min_vruntime is waaay right of where it ought to be.
OK, so why did I write it like that to begin with...
Aah, yes.
Say we've just dequeued current
schedule
deactivate_task(prev)
dequeue_entity
update_min_vruntime
Then we'll set
vruntime = cfs_rq->min_vruntime;
we find !cfs_rq->curr, but do find someone in the tree. Then we _must_
do vruntime = se->vruntime, because
vruntime = min_vruntime(vruntime := cfs_rq->min_vruntime, se->vruntime)
will not advance vruntime, and cause lags the other way around (which we
fixed with that initial patch: 1af5f730fc
(sched: more accurate min_vruntime accounting).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Stronger SCHED_IDLE isolation:
- no SCHED_IDLE buddies
- never let SCHED_IDLE preempt on wakeup
- always preempt SCHED_IDLE on wakeup
- limit SLEEPER fairness for SCHED_IDLE.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Prefer tasks that wake other tasks to preempt quickly. This improves
performance because more work is available sooner.
The workload that prompted this patch was a kernel build over NFS4 (for some
curious and not understood reason we had to revert commit:
18de973530 to make any progress at all)
Without this patch a make -j8 bzImage (of x86-64 defconfig) would take
3m30-ish, with this patch we're down to 2m50-ish.
psql-sysbench/mysql-sysbench show a slight improvement in peak performance as
well, tbench and vmark seemed to not care.
It is possible to improve upon the build time (to 2m20-ish) but that seriously
destroys other benchmarks (just shows that there's more room for tinkering).
Much thanks to Mike who put in a lot of effort to benchmark things and proved
a worthy opponent with a competing patch.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
...
Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
Impact: fix bad-interactivity buglet
Fix sched_slice() to emit a sane result whether a task is currently
enqueued or not.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Jayson King <dev@jaysonking.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/sched_fair.c | 30 ++++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
Impact: tweak task wakeup to save power more agressively
Preferred wakeup cpu (from a semi idle package) has been
nominated in find_busiest_group() in the previous patch. Use
this information in sched_mc_preferred_wakeup_cpu in function
wake_idle() to bias task wakeups if the following conditions
are satisfied:
- The present cpu that is trying to wakeup the process is
idle and waking the target process on this cpu will
potentially wakeup a completely idle package
- The previous cpu on which the target process ran is
also idle and hence selecting the previous cpu may
wakeup a semi idle cpu package
- The task being woken up is allowed to run in the
nominated cpu (cpu affinity and restrictions)
Basically if both the current cpu and the previous cpu on
which the task ran is idle, select the nominated cpu from semi
idle cpu package for running the new task that is waking up.
Cache hotness is considered since the actual biasing happens
in wake_idle() only if the application is cache cold.
This technique will effectively move short running bursty jobs in
a mostly idle system.
Wakeup biasing for power savings gets automatically disabled if
system utilisation increases due to the fact that the probability
of finding both this_cpu and prev_cpu idle decreases.
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: micro-optimization
Skip the hard work when there is none.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: sharpen the wakeup-granularity to always be against current scheduler time
It was possible to do the preemption check against an old time stamp.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Trivial API conversion
NR_CPUS -> nr_cpu_ids
cpumask_t -> struct cpumask
sizeof(cpumask_t) -> cpumask_size()
cpumask_a = cpumask_b -> cpumask_copy(&cpumask_a, &cpumask_b)
cpu_set() -> cpumask_set_cpu()
first_cpu() -> cpumask_first()
cpumask_of_cpu() -> cpumask_of()
cpus_* -> cpumask_*
There are some FIXMEs where we all archs to complete infrastructure
(patches have been sent):
cpu_coregroup_map -> cpu_coregroup_mask
node_to_cpumask* -> cpumask_of_node
There is also one FIXME where we pass an array of cpumasks to
partition_sched_domains(): this implies knowing the definition of
'struct cpumask' and the size of a cpumask. This will be fixed in a
future patch.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: trivial wrap of member accesses
This eases the transition in the next patch.
We also get rid of a temporary cpumask in find_idlest_cpu() thanks to
for_each_cpu_and, and sched_balance_self() due to getting weight before
setting sd to NULL.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Clear buddies on yield, so that the buddy rules don't schedule them
despite them being placed right-most.
This fixed a performance regression with yield-happy binary JVMs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Peter Zijlstra
Fabio Checconi
Paul Turner
Christian Engelmayer
Ingo Molnar
Mike Galbraith
Lin Ming
Wu Fengguang
Linus Torvalds
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
Rusty Russell
Peter Zijlstra