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Message-ID: <20150508124748.GH27504@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Fri, 8 May 2015 14:47:48 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ja@....bg, neilb@...e.de
Subject: [PATCH] sched: Introduce TASK_NOLOAD and TASK_IDLE

Subject: sched: Introduce TASK_NOLOAD and TASK_IDLE
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Date: Fri May 8 14:23:45 CEST 2015

Currently people use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to idle kthreads and wait for
'work' because TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE contributes to the loadavg. Having
all idle kthreads contribute to the loadavg is somewhat silly.

Now mostly this works OK, because kthreads have all their signals
masked. However there's a few sites where this is causing problems and
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE should be used, except for that loadavg issue.

This patch adds TASK_NOLOAD which, when combined with
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE avoids the loadavg accounting.

As most of imagined usage sites are loops where a thread wants to
idle, waiting for work, a helper TASK_IDLE is introduced.

Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
---
 include/linux/sched.h        |   10 +++++++---
 include/trace/events/sched.h |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -213,9 +213,10 @@ print_cfs_rq(struct seq_file *m, int cpu
 #define TASK_WAKEKILL		128
 #define TASK_WAKING		256
 #define TASK_PARKED		512
-#define TASK_STATE_MAX		1024
+#define TASK_NOLOAD		1024
+#define TASK_STATE_MAX		2048
 
-#define TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR "RSDTtXZxKWP"
+#define TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR "RSDTtXZxKWPN"
 
 extern char ___assert_task_state[1 - 2*!!(
 		sizeof(TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR)-1 != ilog2(TASK_STATE_MAX)+1)];
@@ -225,6 +226,8 @@ extern char ___assert_task_state[1 - 2*!
 #define TASK_STOPPED		(TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_STOPPED)
 #define TASK_TRACED		(TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_TRACED)
 
+#define TASK_IDLE		(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_NOLOAD)
+
 /* Convenience macros for the sake of wake_up */
 #define TASK_NORMAL		(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
 #define TASK_ALL		(TASK_NORMAL | __TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED)
@@ -240,7 +243,8 @@ extern char ___assert_task_state[1 - 2*!
 			((task->state & (__TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED)) != 0)
 #define task_contributes_to_load(task)	\
 				((task->state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) != 0 && \
-				 (task->flags & PF_FROZEN) == 0)
+				 (task->flags & PF_FROZEN) == 0 && \
+				 (task->state & TASK_NOLOAD) == 0)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
 
--- a/include/trace/events/sched.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/sched.h
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ TRACE_EVENT(sched_switch,
 		  __print_flags(__entry->prev_state & (TASK_STATE_MAX-1), "|",
 				{ 1, "S"} , { 2, "D" }, { 4, "T" }, { 8, "t" },
 				{ 16, "Z" }, { 32, "X" }, { 64, "x" },
-				{ 128, "K" }, { 256, "W" }, { 512, "P" }) : "R",
+				{ 128, "K" }, { 256, "W" }, { 512, "P" },
+				{ 1024, "N" }) : "R",
 		__entry->prev_state & TASK_STATE_MAX ? "+" : "",
 		__entry->next_comm, __entry->next_pid, __entry->next_prio)
 );
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