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Message-ID: <20071023165039.5536.54119.stgit@novell1.haskins.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:50:39 -0400
From: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
To: linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 03/13] RT: Add a per-cpu rt_overload indication
The system currently evaluates all online CPUs whenever one or more enters
an rt_overload condition. This suffers from scalability limitations as
the # of online CPUs increases. So we introduce a cpumask to track
exactly which CPUs need RT balancing.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
CC: Peter W. Morreale <pmorreale@...ell.com>
---
kernel/sched.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index daeb8ed..e22eec7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -632,6 +632,7 @@ static inline struct rq *this_rq_lock(void)
#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
static __cacheline_aligned_in_smp atomic_t rt_overload;
+static cpumask_t rto_cpus;
#endif
static inline void inc_rt_tasks(struct task_struct *p, struct rq *rq)
@@ -640,8 +641,11 @@ static inline void inc_rt_tasks(struct task_struct *p, struct rq *rq)
if (rt_task(p)) {
rq->rt_nr_running++;
# ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- if (rq->rt_nr_running == 2)
+ if (rq->rt_nr_running == 2) {
+ cpu_set(rq->cpu, rto_cpus);
+ smp_wmb();
atomic_inc(&rt_overload);
+ }
# endif
}
#endif
@@ -654,8 +658,10 @@ static inline void dec_rt_tasks(struct task_struct *p, struct rq *rq)
WARN_ON(!rq->rt_nr_running);
rq->rt_nr_running--;
# ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- if (rq->rt_nr_running == 1)
+ if (rq->rt_nr_running == 1) {
atomic_dec(&rt_overload);
+ cpu_clear(rq->cpu, rto_cpus);
+ }
# endif
}
#endif
@@ -1622,7 +1628,7 @@ static void balance_rt_tasks(struct rq *this_rq, int this_cpu)
*/
next = pick_next_task(this_rq, this_rq->curr);
- for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+ for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, rto_cpus) {
if (cpu == this_cpu)
continue;
src_rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
-
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