This reverts commit 14fd2e5918 ("sched: Use only partial wait time as
task demand") as it causes performance regression.
Change-Id: Iaddfce9c98bff328f50d746c9a86a0c8c34aa0b9
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
[pkondeti@codeaurora.org: Resolved minor conflict]
Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
There is potential power benefit by offloading timer activity to cpus
of lesser power cost (power cluster). Both high-res and low-res timers
that are not pinned to one cpu are now enqueued on first online CPU
found in least shallow C-state in power-cluster.
CRs-Fixed: 764251
Change-Id: I2cea26c76972b566dfbfed084e377811a8784172
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
Add in Documentation/scheduler/ some hints about the design
choices, the usage and the future possible developments of the
sched_dl scheduling class and of the SCHED_DEADLINE policy.
Reviewed-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
[ Re-wrote sections 2 and 3. ]
Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390821615-23247-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Git-Commit: 712e5e34aef449ab680b35c0d9016f59b0a4494c
Git-Repo: git://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
The load scale factor of a CPU gets boosted when its max freq
is restricted. A task load at the same frequency is scaled higher
than normal under this scenario. This results in tasks migrating
early to the better capacity CPUs and their residency over there
also gets increased as their inflated load would be relatively
higher than than the downmigrate threshold.
Auto adjust the upmigrate and downmigrate thresholds by a factor
equal to rq->max_possible_freq/rq->max_freq of a lower capacity CPU.
If the adjusted upmigrate threshold exceeds the window size, it is
clipped to the window size. If the adjusted downmigrate threshold
decreases the difference between the upmigrate and downmigrate, it is
clipped to a value such that the difference between the modified
and the original thresholds is same.
Change-Id: Ifa70ee5d4ca5fe02789093c7f070c77629907f04
Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
The scheduler currently either considers a tasks entire wait time as
task demand or completely ignores wait time based on the tunable
sched_account_wait_time. Both approaches have their limitations,
however. The former artificially boosts tasks demand when it may not
actually be justified. With the latter, the scheduler runs the risk
of never being able to recognize true load (consider two CPU hogs on
a single little CPU). To achieve a compromise between these two
extremes, change the load tracking algorithm to only consider part of
a tasks wait time as its demand. The portion of wait time accounted
as demand is determined by each tasks percent load, i.e. a task that
waits for 10ms and has 60 % task load, only 6 ms of the wait will
contribute to task demand. This approach is more fair as the scheduler
now tries to determine how much of its wait time would a task actually
have been using the CPU if it had been executing. It ensures that tasks
with high demand continue to see most of the benefits of accounting
wait time as busy time, however, lower demand tasks don't experience a
disproportionately high boost to demand triggering unjustified big CPU
usage. Note that this new approach is only applicable to wait time
being considered as task demand and not wait time considered as CPU
busy time.
To achieve the above effect, ensure that anytime a task is waiting, its
runtime in every relevant window segment is appropriately adjusted using
its pct load.
Change-Id: I6a698d6cb1adeca49113c3499029b422daf7871f
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
Add a new procfs node /proc/sys/kernel/sched_max_latency_us to track the
worst scheduling latency. It provides easier way to identify maximum
scheduling latency seen across the CPUs.
Change-Id: I6e435bbf825c0a4dff2eded4a1256fb93f108d0e
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Add new tunables /proc/sys/kernel/sched_latency_warn_threshold_us and
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_latency_panic_threshold_us to warn or panic for the
cases that tasks are runnable but not scheduled more than configured time.
This helps to find out unacceptably high scheduling latency more easily.
Change-Id: If077aba6211062cf26ee289970c5abcd1c218c82
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
It may be desirable to discourage upmigration of tasks belonging to
some cgroups. Add a per-cgroup flag (upmigrate_discourage) that
discourages upmigration of tasks of a cgroup. Tasks of the cgroup are
allowed to upmigrate only under overcommitted scenario.
Change-Id: I1780e420af1b6865c5332fb55ee1ee408b74d8ce
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
sched_prefer_idle flag controls whether tasks can be woken to any
available idle cpu. It may be desirable to set sched_prefer_idle to 0
so that most tasks wake up to non-idle cpus under mostly_idle
threshold and have specialized tasks override this behavior through
other means. PF_WAKE_UP_IDLE flag per task provides exactly that. It
lets tasks with PF_WAKE_UP_IDLE flag set be woken up to any available
idle cpu independent of sched_prefer_idle flag setting. Currently
only kernel-space API exists to set PF_WAKE_UP_IDLE flag for a task.
This patch adds a user-space API (in /proc filesystem) to set
PF_WAKE_UP_IDLE flag for a given task. /proc/[pid]/sched_wake_up_idle
file can be written to set or clear PF_WAKE_UP_IDLE flag for a given
task.
Change-Id: I13a37e740195e503f457ebe291d54e83b230fbeb
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Remove the global sysctl_sched_prefer_idle flag and replace it with a
per-cpu prefer_idle flag. The per-cpu flag is expected to same for all
cpus in a cluster. It thus provides convenient means to disable
packing in one cluster while allowing packing in another cluster.
Change-Id: Ie4cc73bb1a55b4eac5697be38e558546161faca1
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
sysctl_sched_prefer_idle controls selection of idle cpus for waking
tasks. In some cases, waking to idle cpus help performance while in
other cases it hurts (as tasks incur latency associated with C-state
wakeup). Its ideal if scheduler can adapt prefer_idle behavior based
on the task that is waking up, but that's hard for scheduler to
figure by itself. PF_WAKE_UP_IDLE hint can be provided by external
module/driver in such case to guide scheduler in preferring an idle
cpu for select tasks irrespective of sysctl_sched_prefer_idle flag.
This patch enhances select_best_cpu() to consider PF_WAKE_UP_IDLE
hint. Wakeup posted from any task that has PF_WAKE_UP_IDLE set is a
hint for scheduler to prefer idle cpu for waking tasks. Similarly
scheduler will attempt to place any task with PF_WAKE_UP_IDLE set on
idle cpu when they wakeup.
CRs-Fixed: 773101
Change-Id: Ia8bf334d98fd9fd2ff9eda875430497d55d64ce6
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Add sysctl to enable energy awareness at runtime. This is useful for
performance/power tuning/measurements and debugging. In addition this
will match up with the Documentation/scheduler/sched-hmp.txt documentation.
Change-Id: I0a9185498640d66917b38bf5d55f6c59fc60ad5c
Signed-off-by: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@codeaurora.org>
A new tunable exists that allow task migration to be throttled when the
scheduler tries to do task migrations due to Energy Awareness (EA). This
tunable is only taken into account when migrations occur in the tick
path. Extend the usage of the tunable to take into account the load
balancer (lb) path also.
In addition ensure that the start of task execution on a CPU is updated
correctly. If a task is preempted but still runnable on the same CPU the
start of execution should not be updated. Only update the start of
execution when a task wakes up after sleep or moves to a new CPU.
Change-Id: I6b2a8e06d8d2df8e0f9f62b7aba3b4ee4b2c1c4d
Signed-off-by: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@codeaurora.org>
Add the current CPU temperature to the sched_cpu_load trace point.
This will allow us to track the CPU temperature.
CRs-Fixed: 764788
Change-Id: Ib2e3559bbbe3fe07a6b7c8115db606828bc36254
Signed-off-by: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@codeaurora.org>
Power values for cpus can drop quite considerably when it goes idle.
As a result, the best choice for running a single task in a cluster
can vary quite rapidly. As the task keeps hopping cpus, other cpus go
idle and start being seen as more favorable target for running a task,
leading to task migrating almost every scheduler tick!
Prevent this by keeping track of when a task started running on a cpu
and allowing task migration in tick path (migration_needed()) on
account of energy efficiency reasons only if the task has run
sufficiently long (as determined by sysctl_sched_min_runtime
variable).
Note that currently sysctl_sched_min_runtime setting is considered
only in scheduler_tick()->migration_needed() path and not in
idle_balance() path. In other words, a task could be migrated to
another cpu which did a idle_balance(). This limitation should not
affect high-frequency migrations seen typically (when a single
high-demand task runs on high-performance cpu).
CRs-Fixed: 756570
Change-Id: I96413b7a81b623193c3bbcec6f3fa9dfec367d99
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
sysctl_sched_prefer_idle lets the scheduler bias selection of
idle cpus over mostly idle cpus for tasks. This knob could be
useful to control balance between power and performance.
Change-Id: Ide6eef684ef94ac8b9927f53c220ccf94976fe67
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
It may be desirable to be able to alter the scehd_cpu_high_irqload
setting easily, so make it a runtime tunable value.
Change-Id: I832030eec2aafa101f0f435a4fd2d401d447880d
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
The irqload is used in determining whether CPUs are mostly idle
so it is useful to know this value while viewing scheduler traces.
Change-Id: Icbb74fc1285be878f254ae54886bdb161b14a270
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
Add another dimension for task packing based on frequency. This patch
adds a per-cpu tunable, rq->mostly_idle_freq, which when set will
result in tasks being packed on a single cpu in cluster as long as
cluster frequency is less than set threshold.
Change-Id: I318e9af6c8788ddf5dfcda407d621449ea5343c0
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
sched_mostly_idle_load and sched_mostly_idle_nr_run knobs help pack
tasks on cpus to some extent. In some cases, it may be desirable to
have different packing limits for different cpus. For example, pack to
a higher limit on high-performance cpus compared to power-efficient
cpus.
This patch removes the global mostly_idle tunables and makes them
per-cpu, thus letting task packing behavior to be controlled in a
fine-grained manner.
Change-Id: Ifc254cda34b928eae9d6c342ce4c0f64e531e6c2
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Add a per-task attribute, init_load_pct, that is used to initialize
newly created children's initial task load. This helps important
applications launch their child tasks on cpus with highest capacity.
Change-Id: Ie9665fd2aeb15203f95fd7f211c50bebbaa18727
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Now that the last architecture to use this has stopped doing so (ARM,
thanks Catalin!) we can remove this complexity from the scheduler
core.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-g9p2a1w81xxbrze25v9zpzbf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
It's been broken forever (i.e. it's not scheduling in a power
aware fashion), as reported by Suresh and others sending
patches, and nobody cares enough to fix it properly ...
so remove it to make space free for something better.
There's various problems with the code as it stands today, first
and foremost the user interface which is bound to topology
levels and has multiple values per level. This results in a
state explosion which the administrator or distro needs to
master and almost nobody does.
Furthermore large configuration state spaces aren't good, it
means the thing doesn't just work right because it's either
under so many impossibe to meet constraints, or even if
there's an achievable state workloads have to be aware of
it precisely and can never meet it for dynamic workloads.
So pushing this kind of decision to user-space was a bad idea
even with a single knob - it's exponentially worse with knobs
on every node of the topology.
There is a proposal to replace the user interface with a single
3 state knob:
sched_balance_policy := { performance, power, auto }
where 'auto' would be the preferred default which looks at things
like Battery/AC mode and possible cpufreq state or whatever the hw
exposes to show us power use expectations - but there's been no
progress on it in the past many months.
Aside from that, the actual implementation of the various knobs
is known to be broken. There have been sporadic attempts at
fixing things but these always stop short of reaching a mergable
state.
Therefore this wholesale removal with the hopes of spurring
people who care to come forward once again and work on a
coherent replacement.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326104915.2442.53.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Currently we don't utilize the sched_switch field anymore.
But, simply removing sched_switch field from the middle of the
sched_stat output will break tools.
So, to stay compatible we hardcode it to zero and remove the
field from the scheduler data structures.
Update the schedstat documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327422836.27181.5.camel@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Basic description of usage and effect for CFS Bandwidth Control.
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184758.498036116@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
According to commit 676db4af04 ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to
mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem
is /sys/fs/cgroup. Hence, this should be used in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change all "arch/i386" to "arch/x86" in Documentaion/,
since the directory has changed.
Also update the files which have changed their filename
in the meantime accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com>
[jkosina@suse.cz: reword changelog]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Correct all function names pertaining to load balancing and explain
shortly how load balancing is performed.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1301241433-3790-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Correct ->dequeue_tree() thinko into sched_class->dequeue_task
and drop all references to ->task_new() since it is obviously
gone.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1300815978-16618-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Version 15 of schedstats was introduced in:
67aa0f767af4: sched: remove unused fields from struct rq
and removed three unused counters in sched_yield(). Update
the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <cibervicho@gmail.com>
Cc: henrix@sapo.pt
Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1296515496-8229-1-git-send-email-cibervicho@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
USER_SCHED has been removed, so update the documentation
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BA9A07E.8070508@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- add missing closing bracket
- fix two 80-chars issues (as the rest of the document adheres to it)
- bump a reference to kernel version, so the document does not feel aged
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1245580359-4465-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix typo about static priority's range.
Kernel Space User Space
===============================================================
0(high) to 98(low) user RT priority 99(high) to 1(low)
with SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO
---------------------------------------------------------------
99 sched_priority is not used in scheduling
decisions(it must be specified as 0)
---------------------------------------------------------------
100(high) to 139(low) user nice -20(high) to 19(low)
---------------------------------------------------------------
140 idle task priority
---------------------------------------------------------------
* ref) http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/sched_setscheduler.2.html
Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thomas noted that we should disallow sysctl_sched_rt_runtime == 0 for
(!RT_GROUP) since the root group always has some RT tasks in it.
Further, update the documentation to inspire clue.
[ Impact: exclude corner-case sysctl_sched_rt_runtime value ]
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155436.863098054@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cgroup documentation was moved to Documentation/cgroups/. There are some
places that still refer to Documentation/controllers/,
Documentation/cgroups.txt and Documentation/cpusets.txt. Fix those.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Since we don't have O(1) scheduler implementation anymore,
remove the legacy doc.
Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Documented the currently bogus state of support for CFS user groups with
user namespaces. In particular, all users in a user namespace should be
children of the user which created the user namespace. This is yet to
be implemented.
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Pavankumar Kondeti
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Dario Faggioli
Syed Rameez Mustafa
Linux Build Service Account
Joonwoo Park
Olav Haugan
Steve Muckle
Peter Zijlstra
Peter Zijlstra
Hiroshi Shimamoto
Rakib Mullick
Bharata B Rao
Jiri Kosina
Jörg Sommer
Wanlong Gao
Borislav Petkov
Borislav Petkov
Javi Merino
Michael Witten
Li Zefan
Wolfram Sang
Matt LaPlante
GeunSik Lim
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Wang Chen
Linus Torvalds
Serge E. Hallyn