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Paul Menage
06ecb27cfb CGroups _s64 files: use read_s64/write_s64 in CFS cgroup for rt_runtime file
This removes some filesystem boilerplate from the CFS cgroup subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:09 -07:00
Paul Menage
f4c753b7ea CGroup API files: rename read/write_uint methods to read_write_u64
Several people have justifiably complained that the "_uint" suffix is
inappropriate for functions that handle u64 values, so this patch just renames
all these functions and their users to have the suffic _u64.

[peterz@infradead.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Li Zefan" <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "YAMAMOTO Takashi" <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6e18933f2b Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [PATCH] Build fix for CONFIG_NUMA=y && CONFIG_SMP=n
  [IA64] fix bootmem regression on Altix
2008-04-25 12:50:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0b79dada97 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-fixes
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-fixes:
  sched: fix share (re)distribution
  softlockup: fix NOHZ wakeup
  seqlock: livelock fix
2008-04-25 12:47:56 -07:00
David Miller
5a9d3225a0 sched: use alloc_bootmem() instead of alloc_bootmem_low()
There is no guarantee that there is physical ram below 4GB, and in
fact many boxes don't have exactly that.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-25 09:53:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
3f5087a2ba sched: fix share (re)distribution
fix __aggregate_redistribute_shares() related lockup reported by
David S. Miller.

The problem this code tries to solve is 'accurately' calculating the 'fair'
share of the group weight for each cpu. The current code falls back to a global
group rebalance in case the sched_domain's span it looks at has no shares, but
does have tasks.

The reason it gets stuck here, is because its inherently racy - if someone
steals the last task after we compute the agg->rq_weight, but before we
rebalance, we'll never get out of the loop.

We could of course go fix that, but while looking at this issue I found that
this 'fallback' wasn't nearly as rare as I'd hoped it to be. In fact its quite
common - and given it walks the whole machine, thats very bad.

The new approach is simple (why didn't I think of it before?), we set the
aggregate shares to the full task group weight, and each larger sched domain
that encounters an aggregate shares larger than the weight, clips it (it
already re-distributes anyway).

This nicely converges to the desired global picture where the sum of all
shares equals the task group weight.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-25 00:25:08 +02:00
Mike Travis
03970f065d [PATCH] Build fix for CONFIG_NUMA=y && CONFIG_SMP=n
Regression caused by 434d53b00d

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-04-24 14:40:29 -07:00
Russ Anderson
472613b961 [IA64] fix bootmem regression on Altix
A recent change prevents SGI Altix from booting.
This patch fixes the problem.

The regresson was introduced in commit 434d53b00d

Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-04-24 14:21:21 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
73486722b7 kernel-doc: fix sched.c missing parameter
Add missing kernel-doc in kernel/sched.c:

Warning(linux-2.6.25-git3//kernel/sched.c:7044): No description found for parameter 'span'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-22 13:48:02 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
c24b7c5244 sched: features fix
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f00b45c145 sched: /debug/sched_features
provide a text based interface to the scheduler features; this saves the
'user' from setting bits using decimal arithmetic.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
06379aba52 sched: add SCHED_FEAT_DEADLINE
unused at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
8f1bc385cf sched: fair: weight calculations
In order to level the hierarchy, we need to calculate load based on the
root view. That is, each task's load is in the same unit.

             A
            / \
           B   1
          / \
         2   3

To compute 1's load we do:

	   weight(1)
	--------------
	 rq_weight(A)

To compute 2's load we do:

	  weight(2)      weight(B)
	------------ * -----------
	rq_weight(B)   rw_weight(A)

This yields load fractions in comparable units.

The consequence is that it changes virtual time. We used to have:

                time_{i}
  vtime_{i} = ------------
               weight_{i}

  vtime = \Sum vtime_{i} = time / rq_weight.

But with the new way of load calculation we get that vtime equals time.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4a55bd5e97 sched: fair-group: de-couple load-balancing from the rb-trees
De-couple load-balancing from the rb-trees, so that I can change their
organization.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
18d95a2832 sched: fair-group: SMP-nice for group scheduling
Implement SMP nice support for the full group hierarchy.

On each load-balance action, compile a sched_domain wide view of the full
task_group tree. We compute the domain wide view when walking down the
hierarchy, and readjust the weights when walking back up.

After collecting and readjusting the domain wide view, we try to balance the
tasks within the task_groups. The current approach is a naively balance each
task group until we've moved the targeted amount of load.

Inspired by Srivatsa Vaddsgiri's previous code and Abhishek Chandra's H-SMP
paper.

XXX: there will be some numerical issues due to the limited nature of
     SCHED_LOAD_SCALE wrt to representing a task_groups influence on the
     total weight. When the tree is deep enough, or the task weight small
     enough, we'll run out of bits.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Abhishek Chandra <chandra@cs.umn.edu>
CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
Hidetoshi Seto
1d3504fcf5 sched, cpuset: customize sched domains, core
[rebased for sched-devel/latest]

 - Add a new cpuset file, having levels:
     sched_relax_domain_level

 - Modify partition_sched_domains() and build_sched_domains()
   to take attributes parameter passed from cpuset.

 - Fill newidle_idx for node domains which currently unused but
   might be required if sched_relax_domain_level become higher.

 - We can change the default level by boot option 'relax_domain_level='.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b40b2e8eb5 sched: rt: multi level group constraints
multi level rt constraints

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f473aa5e02 sched: task_group hierarchy
Add the full parent<->child relation thing into task_groups as well.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
eff766a65c sched: fix the task_group hierarchy for UID grouping
UID grouping doesn't actually have a task_group representing the root of
the task_group tree. Add one.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
Dhaval Giani
ec7dc8ac73 sched: allow the group scheduler to have multiple levels
This patch makes the group scheduler multi hierarchy aware.

[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: rt-parts and assorted fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Dhaval Giani
354d60c2ff sched: mix tasks and groups
This patch allows tasks and groups to exist in the same cfs_rq. With this
change the CFS group scheduling follows a 1/(M+N) model from a 1/(1+N)
fairness model where M tasks and N groups exist at the cfs_rq level.

[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: rt bits and assorted fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ea736ed5d3 sched: fix checks
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
112f53f5d7 sched: old sleeper bonus
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Mike Travis
cd8ba7cd9b sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function
Add a new function that accepts a pointer to the "newly allowed cpus"
cpumask argument.

int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const cpumask_t *new_mask)

The current set_cpus_allowed() function is modified to use the above
but this does not result in an ABI change.  And with some compiler
optimization help, it may not introduce any additional overhead.

Additionally, to enforce the read only nature of the new_mask arg, the
"const" property is migrated to sub-functions called by set_cpus_allowed.
This silences compiler warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Mike Travis
e0982e90cd init: move setup of nr_cpu_ids to as early as possible
Move the setting of nr_cpu_ids from sched_init() to start_kernel()
so that it's available as early as possible.

Note that an arch has the option of setting it even earlier if need be,
but it should not result in a different value than the setup_nr_cpu_ids()
function.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Mike Travis
4bdbaad33d sched: remove another cpumask_t variable from stack
* Remove another cpumask_t variable from stack that was missed in the
      last kernel_sched_c updates.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Mike Travis
7c16ec585c cpumask: reduce stack usage in SD_x_INIT initializers
* Remove empty cpumask_t (and all non-zero/non-null) variables
    in SD_*_INIT macros.  Use memset(0) to clear.  Also, don't
    inline the initializer functions to save on stack space in
    build_sched_domains().

  * Merge change to include/linux/topology.h that uses the new
    node_to_cpumask_ptr function in the nr_cpus_node macro into
    this patch.

Depends on:
	[mm-patch]: asm-generic-add-node_to_cpumask_ptr-macro.patch
	[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Mike Travis
c5f59f0833 nodemask: use new node_to_cpumask_ptr function
* Use new node_to_cpumask_ptr.  This creates a pointer to the
    cpumask for a given node.  This definition is in mm patch:

	asm-generic-add-node_to_cpumask_ptr-macro.patch

  * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function.

Depends on:
	[mm-patch]: asm-generic-add-node_to_cpumask_ptr-macro.patch
	[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function
	[x86/latest]: x86: add cpus_scnprintf function

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Mike Travis
b53e921ba1 generic: reduce stack pressure in sched_affinity
* Modify sched_affinity functions to pass cpumask_t variables by reference
    instead of by value.

  * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function.

Depends on:
	[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function

Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Mike Travis
f9a86fcbbb cpuset: modify cpuset_set_cpus_allowed to use cpumask pointer
* Modify cpuset_cpus_allowed to return the currently allowed cpuset
    via a pointer argument instead of as the function return value.

  * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function.

  * Cleanup CPU_MASK_ALL and NODE_MASK_ALL uses.

Depends on:
	[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
Mike Travis
434d53b00d sched: remove fixed NR_CPUS sized arrays in kernel_sched_c
* Change fixed size arrays to per_cpu variables or dynamically allocated
   arrays in sched_init() and sched_init_smp().

     (1) static struct sched_entity *init_sched_entity_p[NR_CPUS];
     (1) static struct cfs_rq *init_cfs_rq_p[NR_CPUS];
     (1) static struct sched_rt_entity *init_sched_rt_entity_p[NR_CPUS];
     (1) static struct rt_rq *init_rt_rq_p[NR_CPUS];
	 static struct sched_group **sched_group_nodes_bycpu[NR_CPUS];

     (1) - these arrays are allocated via alloc_bootmem_low()

 * Change sched_domain_debug_one() to use cpulist_scnprintf instead of
   cpumask_scnprintf.  This reduces the output buffer required and improves
   readability when large NR_CPU count machines arrive.

 * In sched_create_group() we allocate new arrays based on nr_cpu_ids.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
Dhaval Giani
0297b80339 sched: allow cpuacct stats to be reset
Currently the schedstats implementation does not allow the statistics
to be reset. This patch aims to allow that.

  echo 0 > cpuacct.usage

resets the usage. Any other value is not allowed and returns -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
Dhaval Giani
32cd756a80 sched: cleanup cpuacct variable names
Change the variable names to the common convention for the cpuacct
subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ac086bc229 sched: rt-group: smp balancing
Currently the rt group scheduling does a per cpu runtime limit, however
the rt load balancer makes no guarantees about an equal spread of real-
time tasks, just that at any one time, the highest priority tasks run.

Solve this by making the runtime limit a global property by borrowing
excessive runtime from the other cpus once the local limit runs out.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
d0b27fa778 sched: rt-group: synchonised bandwidth period
Various SMP balancing algorithms require that the bandwidth period
run in sync.

Possible improvements are moving the rt_bandwidth thing into root_domain
and keeping a span per rt_bandwidth which marks throttled cpus.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
50df5d6aea sched: remove sysctl_sched_batch_wakeup_granularity
it's unused.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
02e2b83bd2 sched: reenable sync wakeups
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d25ce4cd49 sched: cache hot buddy
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1fc8afa4c8 sched: feat affine wakeups
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b85d066726 sched: introduce SCHED_FEAT_SYNC_WAKEUPS, turn it off
turn off sync wakeups by default. They are not needed anymore - the
buddy logic should be smart enough to keep the system from
overscheduling.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Guillaume Chazarain
15934a3732 sched: fix rq->clock overflows detection with CONFIG_NO_HZ
When using CONFIG_NO_HZ, rq->tick_timestamp is not updated every TICK_NSEC.
We check that the number of skipped ticks matches the clock jump seen in
__update_rq_clock().

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Reynes Philippe
30914a58af sched: sched.c needs tick.h
kernel/sched.c:506: erreur: implicit declaration of function tick_get_tick_sched
kernel/sched.c:506: erreur: invalid type argument of ->
kernel/sched.c:506: erreur: NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/sched.c:506: erreur: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/sched.c:506: erreur: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
27ec440779 sched: make cpu_clock() globally synchronous
Alexey Zaytsev reported (and bisected) that the introduction of
cpu_clock() in printk made the timestamps jump back and forth.

Make cpu_clock() more reliable while still keeping it fast when it's
called frequently.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:57 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
06d8308c61 NOHZ: reevaluate idle sleep length after add_timer_on()
add_timer_on() can add a timer on a CPU which is currently in a long
idle sleep, but the timer wheel is not reevaluated by the nohz code on
that CPU. So a timer can be delayed for quite a long time. This
triggered a false positive in the clocksource watchdog code.

To avoid this we need to wake up the idle CPU and enforce the
reevaluation of the timer wheel for the next timer event.

Add a function, which checks a given CPU for idle state, marks the
idle task with NEED_RESCHED and sends a reschedule IPI to notify the
other CPU of the change in the timer wheel.

Call this function from add_timer_on().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

--
 include/linux/sched.h |    6 ++++++
 kernel/sched.c        |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/timer.c        |   10 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
2008-03-26 08:28:55 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
22e52b072d sched: add arch_update_cpu_topology hook.
Will be called each time the scheduling domains are rebuild.
Needed for architectures that don't have a static cpu topology.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-21 16:43:48 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
9aefd0abd8 sched: add exported arch_reinit_sched_domains() to header file.
Needed so it can be called from outside of sched.c.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-21 16:43:47 +01:00
Roel Kluin
23e3c3cd2e sched: remove double unlikely from schedule()
Combine two unlikely's

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-21 16:43:47 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
2070ee01d3 sched: cleanup old and rarely used 'debug' features.
TREE_AVG and APPROX_AVG are initial task placement policies that have been
disabled for a long while.. time to remove them.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-21 16:43:47 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f540a6080a sched: wakeup-buddy tasks are cache-hot
Wakeup-buddy tasks are cache-hot - this makes it a bit harder
for the load-balancer to tear them apart. (but it's still possible,
if the load is sufficiently assymetric)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-19 04:27:53 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4ae7d5cefd sched: improve affine wakeups
improve affine wakeups. Maintain the 'overlap' metric based on CFS's
sum_exec_runtime - which means the amount of time a task executes
after it wakes up some other task.

Use the 'overlap' for the wakeup decisions: if the 'overlap' is short,
it means there's strong workload coupling between this task and the
woken up task. If the 'overlap' is large then the workload is decoupled
and the scheduler will move them to separate CPUs more easily.

( Also slightly move the preempt_check within try_to_wake_up() - this has
  no effect on functionality but allows 'early wakeups' (for still-on-rq
  tasks) to be correctly accounted as well.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-19 04:27:53 +01:00