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Message-Id: <1232287718.12958.8.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:08:38 +0100
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] scheduler fixes
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 13:00 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 11:34 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > Right, how about we flip the 'initial' case in place_entity() for !
> > > nr_exclusive wakeups.
> >
> > Wouldn't that be more drastic than sleep denial?
>
> Strictly speaking that DEBIT thing is valid for each wakeup, IIRC we
> restricted it to clone() only because that was where we could actually
> observe these latency spikes using a fork-bomb.
>
> This reduces the latency hits to around 400ms, which is about right for
> the given load.
Disregarding the startup landmine for the moment, maybe we should put a
buddy slice knob in the user's hands, so they can tune latency, along
with a full on/off switch for those who care not one whit about
scalability.
ProcessSchedulerTest 100 100000
2.6.29.git
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:691.454ms|duration:-0.324s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:700.731ms|duration:-0.407s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:688.367ms|duration:-0.388s
NO_LAST_BUDDY
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.004ms|max:90.659ms|duration:0.035s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.004ms|max:94.995ms|duration:0.022s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.004ms|max:75.753ms|duration:0.148s
2.6.29.git + buddy_slice.diff
NO_BUDDIES
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.024ms|mid:0.012ms|max:14.548ms|duration:0.731s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.028ms|mid:0.015ms|max:14.986ms|duration:0.760s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.028ms|mid:0.019ms|max:15.257ms|duration:0.782s
BUDDIES
sched_buddy_slice_ns=100000
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:21.199ms|duration:-0.101s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:21.602ms|duration:-0.030s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:18.421ms|duration:-0.124s
sched_buddy_slice_ns=1000000
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:55.067ms|duration:-0.224s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:58.090ms|duration:-0.036s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:72.055ms|duration:0.025s
sched_buddy_slice_ns=2000000
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:244.128ms|duration:-0.052s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:230.404ms|duration:-0.153s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:229.958ms|duration:0.030s
sched_buddy_slice_ns=4000000 (default)
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:396.093ms|duration:-0.016s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:366.363ms|duration:-0.055s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:360.373ms|duration:-0.129s
sched_buddy_slice_ns=15000000
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:670.781ms|duration:-0.086s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:563.612ms|duration:-0.049s
min:0.003ms|avg:0.003-0.004ms|mid:0.003ms|max:680.968ms|duration:-0.244s
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 4cae9b8..0ea8eb7 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1708,6 +1708,7 @@ static inline void wake_up_idle_cpu(int cpu) { }
extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency;
extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity;
+extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_buddy_slice;
extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity;
extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_shares_ratelimit;
extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_shares_thresh;
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 52bbf1c..f37c243 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -406,6 +406,7 @@ struct cfs_rq {
u64 exec_clock;
u64 min_vruntime;
+ u64 pair_start;
struct rb_root tasks_timeline;
struct rb_node *rb_leftmost;
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 5cc1c16..e261cd5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency = 20000000ULL;
unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 4000000ULL;
/*
+ * Buddy timeslice:
+ * (default: 4 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
+ */
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_buddy_slice = 4000000ULL;
+
+/*
* is kept at sysctl_sched_latency / sysctl_sched_min_granularity
*/
static unsigned int sched_nr_latency = 5;
@@ -808,6 +814,11 @@ wakeup_preempt_entity(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se);
static struct sched_entity *pick_next_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
{
struct sched_entity *se = __pick_next_entity(cfs_rq);
+ struct rq *rq = rq_of(cfs_rq);
+ u64 buddy_slice = rq->clock - cfs_rq->pair_start;
+
+ if (buddy_slice > sysctl_sched_buddy_slice)
+ goto out;
if (cfs_rq->next && wakeup_preempt_entity(cfs_rq->next, se) < 1)
return cfs_rq->next;
@@ -815,6 +826,9 @@ static struct sched_entity *pick_next_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
if (cfs_rq->last && wakeup_preempt_entity(cfs_rq->last, se) < 1)
return cfs_rq->last;
+out:
+ cfs_rq->pair_start = rq->clock;
+
return se;
}
@@ -1347,6 +1361,9 @@ wakeup_preempt_entity(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se)
static void set_last_buddy(struct sched_entity *se)
{
+ if (!sched_feat(BUDDIES))
+ return;
+
if (likely(task_of(se)->policy != SCHED_IDLE)) {
for_each_sched_entity(se)
cfs_rq_of(se)->last = se;
@@ -1355,6 +1372,9 @@ static void set_last_buddy(struct sched_entity *se)
static void set_next_buddy(struct sched_entity *se)
{
+ if (!sched_feat(BUDDIES))
+ return;
+
if (likely(task_of(se)->policy != SCHED_IDLE)) {
for_each_sched_entity(se)
cfs_rq_of(se)->next = se;
@@ -1392,7 +1412,7 @@ static void check_preempt_wakeup(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sync)
* Also, during early boot the idle thread is in the fair class, for
* obvious reasons its a bad idea to schedule back to the idle thread.
*/
- if (sched_feat(LAST_BUDDY) && likely(se->on_rq && curr != rq->idle))
+ if (likely(se->on_rq && curr != rq->idle))
set_last_buddy(se);
set_next_buddy(pse);
diff --git a/kernel/sched_features.h b/kernel/sched_features.h
index da5d93b..3a194fa 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ SCHED_FEAT(LB_BIAS, 1)
SCHED_FEAT(LB_WAKEUP_UPDATE, 1)
SCHED_FEAT(ASYM_EFF_LOAD, 1)
SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_OVERLAP, 0)
-SCHED_FEAT(LAST_BUDDY, 1)
+SCHED_FEAT(BUDDIES, 1)
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 368d163..733ddb6 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -254,6 +254,17 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
},
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+ .procname = "sched_buddy_slice_ns",
+ .data = &sysctl_sched_buddy_slice,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = &sched_nr_latency_handler,
+ .strategy = &sysctl_intvec,
+ .extra1 = &min_sched_granularity_ns,
+ .extra2 = &max_sched_granularity_ns,
+ },
+ {
+ .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
.procname = "sched_latency_ns",
.data = &sysctl_sched_latency,
.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),
--
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