Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.
It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.
The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
improve the comments around the wmult array (which controls the weight
of niced tasks). Clarify that to achieve a 10% difference in CPU
utilization, a weight multiplier of 1.25 has to be used.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Roman Zippel noticed another inconsistency of the wmult table.
wmult[16] has a missing digit.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fix show_task()/show_tasks() output:
- there's no sibling info anymore
- the fields were not aligned properly with the description
- get rid of the lazy-TLB output: it's been quite some time since
we last had a bug there, and when we had a bug it wasnt helped a
bit by this debug output.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There's a typo in the values in prio_to_wmult[] for nice level 1. While
it did not cause bad CPU distribution, but caused more rescheduling
between nice-0 and nice-1 tasks than necessary.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
add credits for recent major scheduler contributions:
Con Kolivas, for pioneering the fair-scheduling approach
Peter Williams, for smpnice
Mike Galbraith, for interactivity tuning of CFS
Srivatsa Vaddagiri, for group scheduling enhancements
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
clean up the sleep_on() APIs:
- do not use fastcall
- replace fragile macro magic with proper inline functions
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
4 small style cleanups to sched.c: checkpatch.pl is now happy about
the totality of sched.c [ignoring false positives] - yay! ;-)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
track TSC-unstable events and propagate it to the scheduler code.
Also allow sched_clock() to be used when the TSC is unstable,
the rq_clock() wrapper creates a reliable clock out of it.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
apply the CFS core code.
this change switches over the scheduler core to CFS's modular
design and makes use of kernel/sched_fair/rt/idletask.c to implement
Linux's scheduling policies.
thanks to Andrew Morton and Thomas Gleixner for lots of detailed review
feedback and for fixlets.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
remove the sleep-bonus interactivity code from the core scheduler.
scheduling policy is implemented in the policy modules, and CFS does
not need such type of heuristics.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
remove the expired_starving() heuristics from the core scheduler.
CFS does not need it, and this did not really work well in practice
anyway, due to the rq->nr_running multiplier to STARVATION_LIMIT.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
remove the sleep_type heuristics from the core scheduler - scheduling
policy is implemented in the scheduling-policy modules. (and CFS does
not use this type of sleep-type heuristics)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cleanup: move dequeue/enqueue_task() to a more logical place, to
not split up __normal_prio()/normal_prio().
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
move resched_task()/resched_cpu() into the 'public interfaces'
section of sched.c, for use by kernel/sched_fair/rt/idletask.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
