linux-kernel - [patch] sched: improve tick time missed wakeup preempt protection

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Message-Id: <1258891682.14325.31.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date:	Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:08:02 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [patch] sched: improve tick time missed wakeup preempt protection


sched: improve tick time missed wakeup preempt protection

f685ceac provides protection from tasks just missing wakeup preemption, and then
having to wait a full slice.  However, it offers this protection to tasks which
have no business receiving the benefit, namely SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_IDLE.  It
also treats all tasks equally, which obviously isn't true.  Exclude tasks of
other than SCHED_NORMAL class, and scale minimum runtime before a tick time
preemption by the difference in task weights, after which, we can just use the
standard wakeup preempt vruntime delta test, sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>

---
 kernel/sched_fair.c |   20 +++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -830,17 +830,23 @@ check_preempt_tick(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq
 	 * narrow margin doesn't have to wait for a full slice.
 	 * This also mitigates buddy induced latencies under load.
 	 */
-	if (!sched_feat(WAKEUP_PREEMPT))
+	if (!sched_feat(WAKEUP_PREEMPT) || cfs_rq->nr_running < 2)
 		return;
-
-	if (delta_exec < sysctl_sched_min_granularity)
-		return;
-
-	if (cfs_rq->nr_running > 1) {
+	else  {
 		struct sched_entity *se = __pick_next_entity(cfs_rq);
+		unsigned long min = sysctl_sched_min_granularity;
 		s64 delta = curr->vruntime - se->vruntime;
 
-		if (delta > ideal_runtime)
+		if (task_of(se)->policy != SCHED_NORMAL)
+			return;
+		if (delta < 0)
+			return;
+		if (curr->load.weight != se->load.weight)
+			min = calc_delta_mine(min, curr->load.weight, &se->load);
+		if (delta_exec < min)
+			return;
+
+		if (delta > sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity)
 			resched_task(rq_of(cfs_rq)->curr);
 	}
 }


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