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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-03-30 14:04:53 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-03-30 14:04:53 +1100
commit9ff9a26b786c35ee8d2a66222924a807ec851a9f (patch)
treedb432a17bccca1ca2c16907f0ee83ac449ed4012 /kernel/sched_fair.c
parent0a3108beea9143225119d5e7c72a8e2c64f3eb7d (diff)
parent0d34fb8e93ceba7b6dad0062dbb4a0813bacd75b (diff)
Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
Manual merge of: arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched_fair.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched_fair.c59
1 files changed, 53 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 0566f2a03c4..3816f217f11 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -1314,16 +1314,63 @@ out:
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
-static unsigned long wakeup_gran(struct sched_entity *se)
+/*
+ * Adaptive granularity
+ *
+ * se->avg_wakeup gives the average time a task runs until it does a wakeup,
+ * with the limit of wakeup_gran -- when it never does a wakeup.
+ *
+ * So the smaller avg_wakeup is the faster we want this task to preempt,
+ * but we don't want to treat the preemptee unfairly and therefore allow it
+ * to run for at least the amount of time we'd like to run.
+ *
+ * NOTE: we use 2*avg_wakeup to increase the probability of actually doing one
+ *
+ * NOTE: we use *nr_running to scale with load, this nicely matches the
+ * degrading latency on load.
+ */
+static unsigned long
+adaptive_gran(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se)
+{
+ u64 this_run = curr->sum_exec_runtime - curr->prev_sum_exec_runtime;
+ u64 expected_wakeup = 2*se->avg_wakeup * cfs_rq_of(se)->nr_running;
+ u64 gran = 0;
+
+ if (this_run < expected_wakeup)
+ gran = expected_wakeup - this_run;
+
+ return min_t(s64, gran, sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity);
+}
+
+static unsigned long
+wakeup_gran(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se)
{
unsigned long gran = sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity;
+ if (cfs_rq_of(curr)->curr && sched_feat(ADAPTIVE_GRAN))
+ gran = adaptive_gran(curr, se);
+
/*
- * More easily preempt - nice tasks, while not making it harder for
- * + nice tasks.
+ * Since its curr running now, convert the gran from real-time
+ * to virtual-time in his units.
*/
- if (!sched_feat(ASYM_GRAN) || se->load.weight > NICE_0_LOAD)
- gran = calc_delta_fair(sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity, se);
+ if (sched_feat(ASYM_GRAN)) {
+ /*
+ * By using 'se' instead of 'curr' we penalize light tasks, so
+ * they get preempted easier. That is, if 'se' < 'curr' then
+ * the resulting gran will be larger, therefore penalizing the
+ * lighter, if otoh 'se' > 'curr' then the resulting gran will
+ * be smaller, again penalizing the lighter task.
+ *
+ * This is especially important for buddies when the leftmost
+ * task is higher priority than the buddy.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(se->load.weight != NICE_0_LOAD))
+ gran = calc_delta_fair(gran, se);
+ } else {
+ if (unlikely(curr->load.weight != NICE_0_LOAD))
+ gran = calc_delta_fair(gran, curr);
+ }
return gran;
}
@@ -1350,7 +1397,7 @@ wakeup_preempt_entity(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se)
if (vdiff <= 0)
return -1;
- gran = wakeup_gran(curr);
+ gran = wakeup_gran(curr, se);
if (vdiff > gran)
return 1;