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2008-04-30[POWERPC] spufs: fix marker name for find_victimJulio M. Merino Vidal
Fix a typo in the marker for the find_victim function, which prevented it from being traced. It previously read find_vitim. Signed-off-by: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@ac.upc.edu> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-04-30[POWERPC] spufs: add context switch notification logChristoph Hellwig
There are userspace instrumentation tools that need to monitor spu context switches. This patch adds a new file called 'switch_log' to each spufs context directory that can be used to monitor the context switches. Context switch in/out and exit from spu_run are monitored after the file was first opened and can be read from it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-03-11[POWERPC] spufs: don't (ab)use SCHED_IDLEJeremy Kerr
commit 4ef11014 introduced a usage of SCHED_IDLE to detect when a context is within spu_run. Instead of SCHED_IDLE (which has other meaning), add a flag to sched_flags to tell if a context should be running. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-02-29[POWERPC] spufs: fix use time accounting on SPE-overcommitAndre Detsch
The spu_runcntl_RW register is restored within spu_restore function. So, at the end of spu_bind_context, the SPU context is not just loaded, but running. This change corrects the state switch to account the time as USER. Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-02-19[POWERPC] spufs: fix scheduler starvation by idle contextsJeremy Kerr
2.6.25 has a regression where we can starve the scheduler by creating (N_SPES+1) contexts, then running them one at a time. The final context will never be run, as the other contexts are loaded on the SPEs, none of which are repoted as free (ie, spu->alloc_state != SPU_FREE), so spu_get_idle() doesn't give us a spu to run on. Because all of the contexts are stopped, none are descheduled by the scheduler tick, as spusched_tick returns if spu_stopped(ctx). This change replaces the spu_stopped() check with checking for SCHED_IDLE in ctx->policy. We set a context's policy to SCHED_IDLE when we're not in spu_run(). We also favour SCHED_IDLE contexts when looking for contexts to unbind, but leave their timeslice intact for later resumption. This patch fixes the following test in the spufs-testsuite: tests/20-scheduler/02-yield-starvation Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-02-06[POWERPC] spufs: Add marker-based tracing facilityChristoph Hellwig
This adds markers two important points in the spufs code and a new module (sputrace.ko) that allows reading these out through a proc file. Long-term I'd rather see something like lttng extended to use the spufs instrumentation, but for now I think this is a good enough quick solution. We'll probably want to add various addition event in addition to that ones I have already. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-01-24Merge branch 'linux-2.6'Paul Mackerras
2008-01-02[POWERPC] Fix build failure on Cell when CONFIG_SPU_FS=yPaul Mackerras
Commit aed3a8c9bb1a8623a618232087c5ff62718e3b9a introduced a definition of notify_spus_active in .../cell/spu_syscalls.c, and another definition under #ifndef MODULE in .../cell/spufs/sched.c. The latter is not necessary and causes the build to fail when CONFIG_SPU_FS=y, so this removes it. It also removes the export of do_notify_spus_active, which is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2007-12-28[POWERPC] Oprofile: Remove dependency on spufs moduleBob Nelson
This removes an OProfile dependency on the spufs module. This dependency was causing a problem for multiplatform systems that are built with support for Oprofile on Cell but try to load the oprofile module on a non-Cell system. Signed-off-by: Bob Nelson <rrnelson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-21[POWERPC] spufs: Use separate timer for /proc/spu_loadavg calculationAegis Lin
The original spusched_timer was designed to take effect only when a context is waiting in the runqueue. This change adds an additional lower-freq timer has been added to purely handle the spu_load updates. The new timer will be triggered per LOAD_FREQ ticks. Signed-off-by: Aegis Lin <aegislin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-21[POWERPC] spufs: make state_mutex interruptibleChristoph Hellwig
Make most places that use spu_acquire/spu_acquire_saved interruptible, this allows getting out of the spufs code when e.g. pressing ctrl+c. There are a few places where we get called e.g. from spufs teardown routines were we can't simply err out so these are left with a comment. For now I've also not touched the poll routines because it's open what libspe would expect in terms of interrupted system calls. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-21[POWERPC] spufs: decouple spu scheduler from spufs_spu_run (asynchronous ↵Luke Browning
scheduling) Change spufs_spu_run so that the context is queued directly to the scheduler and the controlling thread advances directly to spufs_wait() for spe errors and exceptions. nosched contexts are treated the same as before. Fixes from Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Luke Browning <lukebr@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-21[POWERPC] spufs: spu_find_victim may choose wrong victimLuke Browning
Need to re-check priority after dropping lock. Otherwise, a more favored context may be preempted. Signed-off-by: Luke Browning <lukebr@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-21[POWERPC] spufs: reorganize spu_run_initLuke Browning
This cleans up spu_run_init so that it does all of the spu initialization for spufs_run_spu. It initializes the spu context as much as possible before it activates the spu and writes the runcntl register. Signed-off-by: Luke Browning <lukebr@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-21[POWERPC] spufs: rework class 0 and 1 interrupt handlingJeremy Kerr
Based on original patches from Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergman@de.ibm.com>; and Luke Browning <lukebr@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Currently, spu contexts need to be loaded to the SPU in order to take class 0 and class 1 exceptions. This change makes the actual interrupt-handlers much simpler (ie, set the exception information in the context save area), and defers the handling code to the spufs_handle_class[01] functions, called from spufs_run_spu. This should improve the concurrency of the spu scheduling leading to greater SPU utilization when SPUs are overcommited. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-21[POWERPC] spufs: block fault handlers in spu_acquire_runnableArnd Bergmann
This change disables the logic that faults-in spu contexts under the covers from the page fault handler. When a fault requires a runnable context, the handler will block until the context is scheduled by other means. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-21[POWERPC] spufs: move fault, lscsa_alloc and switch code to spufs moduleJeremy Kerr
Currently, part of the spufs code (switch.o, lscsa_alloc.o and fault.o) is compiled directly into the kernel. This change moves these components of spufs into the kernel. The lscsa and switch objects are fairly straightforward to move in. For the fault.o module, we split the fault-handling code into two parts: a/p/p/c/spu_fault.c and a/p/p/c/spufs/fault.c. The former is for the in-kernel spu_handle_mm_fault function, and we move the rest of the fault-handling code into spufs. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-21[POWERPC] spufs: fix typos in sched.c commentsJulio M. Merino Vidal
Fix a few typos in the spufs scheduler comments Signed-off-by: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@ac.upc.edu> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-20Merge branch 'linux-2.6'Paul Mackerras
2007-09-19[POWERPC] spusched: Fix null pointer dereference in find_victimChristoph Hellwig
find_victim can dereference a NULL pointer when iterating over the list of victim spus because list_mutex only guarantees spu->ct to be stable, but of course not to be non-NULL. Also fix find_victim to not call spu_unbind_context without list_mutex because that violates the above guarantee. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-19[POWERPC] spufs: Fix race condition on gang->aff_ref_spuAndre Detsch
Affinity reference point location (gang->aff_ref_spu) is reset when the whole gang is descheduled. However, the last member of a gang can be descheduled while we are trying to schedule another member of the gang. This was leading to a race condition, and the code was using gang->aff_ref_spu in an unsafe manner. By holding the gang->aff_mutex a little bit longer, and increment gang->aff_sched_count (which controls when gang->aff_ref_spu should be reset) a little bit earlier, the problem is fixed. Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-03[POWERPC] spufs: Fix affinity after introduction of node_allowed() callsAndre Detsch
This patch fixes affinity reference point placement, which was not being done in some situations, after the introduction of node_allowed() calls. The previously used parameter, 'ctx', is just the iterator of the previous list_for_each_entry_reverse loop, and its value might be invalid at the end of the loop. Also, the right context to seek for information when defining the reference ctx location _is_ the reference ctx. Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-26[POWERPC] spufs: Fix incorrect initialization of cbe_spu_info.spusMasato Noguchi
We currently initialize cbe_spu_info[].spus in both init_spu_base and spu_sched_init. The initialise in spu_sched_init clears the SPU list, so we end up with no physical SPUs. Because of this, the spu_run syscall will block forever. This change removes the unnecessary initialization in spu_sched_init. Signed-off-by: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-20[CELL] spufs: rework list management and associated lockingChristoph Hellwig
This sorts out the various lists and related locks in the spu code. In detail: - the per-node free_spus and active_list are gone. Instead struct spu gained an alloc_state member telling whether the spu is free or not - the per-node spus array is now locked by a per-node mutex, which takes over from the global spu_lock and the per-node active_mutex - the spu_alloc* and spu_free function are gone as the state change is now done inline in the spufs code. This allows some more sharing of code for the affinity vs normal case and more efficient locking - some little refactoring in the affinity code for this locking scheme Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-07-20[CELL] oprofile: add support to OProfile for profiling CELL BE SPUsBob Nelson
From: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com> This patch updates the existing arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_cell.c to add in the SPU profiling capabilities. In addition, a 'cell' subdirectory was added to arch/powerpc/oprofile to hold Cell-specific SPU profiling code. Exports spu_set_profile_private_kref and spu_get_profile_private_kref which are used by OProfile to store private profile information in spufs data structures. Also incorporated several fixes from other patches (rrn). Check pointer returned from kzalloc. Eliminated unnecessary cast. Better error handling and cleanup in the related area. 64-bit unsigned long parameter was being demoted to 32-bit unsigned int and eventually promoted back to unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Nelson <rrnelson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-20[CELL] oprofile: enable SPU switch notification to detect currently active ↵Bob Nelson
SPU tasks From: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com> This patch adds to the capability of spu_switch_event_register so that the caller is also notified of currently active SPU tasks. Exports spu_switch_event_register and spu_switch_event_unregister so that OProfile can get access to the notifications provided. Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Nelson <rrnelson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-20[CELL] spufs: integration of SPE affinity with the schedullerArnd Bergmann
This patch makes the scheduller honor affinity information for each context being scheduled. If the context has no affinity information, behaviour is unchanged. If there are affinity information, context is schedulled to be run on the exact spu recommended by the affinity placement algorithm. Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-07-20[CELL] cell: add placement computation for scheduling of affinity contextsArnd Bergmann
This patch provides the spu affinity placement logic for the spufs scheduler. Each time a gang is going to be scheduled, the placement of a reference context is defined. The placement of all other contexts with affinity from the gang is defined based on this reference context location and on a precomputed displacement offset. Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-07-20[CELL] cell: add per BE structure with info about its SPUsArnd Bergmann
Addition of a spufs-global "cbe_info" array. Each entry contains information about one Cell/B.E. node, namelly: * list of spus (both free and busy spus are in this list); * list of free spus (replacing the static spu_list from spu_base.c) * number of spus; * number of reserved (non scheduleable) spus. SPE affinity implementation actually requires only access to one spu per BE node (since it implements its own pointer to walk through the other spus of the ring) and the number of scheduleable spus (n_spus - non_sched_spus) However having this more general structure can be useful for other functionalities, concentrating per-cbe statistics / data. Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-07-20[CELL] spufs: use find_first_bit() instead of sched_find_first_bit()Masato Noguchi
spu_sched->bitmap has MAX_PRIO(=140) width in bits.However, since ff80a77f20f811c0cc5b251d0f657cbc6f788385, sched_find_first_bit() only supports 100-bit bitmaps. Thus, spu_sched->bitmap should be treated by generic find_first_bit(). Signed-off-by: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-07-20[CELL] spufs: add spu stats in sysfs and ctx stat file in spufsAndre Detsch
This patch exports per-context statistics in spufs as long as spu statistics in sysfs. It was formed by merging: "spufs: add spu stats in sysfs" From: Christoph Hellwig "spufs: add stat file to spufs" From: Christoph Hellwig "spufs: fix libassist accounting" From: Jeremy Kerr "spusched: fix spu utilization statistics" From: Luke Browning And some adjustments by myself, after suggestions on cbe-oss-dev. Having separate patches was making the review process harder than it should, as we end up integrating spus and ctx statistics accounting much more than it was on the first implementation. Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-07-20[CELL] spufs: Remove spurious WARN_ON for spu_deactivate for NOSCHED contextsJeremy Kerr
In 6cbf93960e64f313f6e247cbca7afaa50e3ee2c we added a WARN_ON for calling spu_deactivate on contexts created with the SPU_CREATE_NOSCHED flag. However, all NOSCHED contexts will need to be deactivated when the context is destroyed, so this gives a spurious warning when any NOSCHED context is closed. This change removes the WARN_ON. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-07-20[CELL] spufs: remove section mismatch warningSebastian Siewior
WARNING: arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.o(.init.text+0x158): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:.spu_sched_exit (between '.init_module' and '.spu_sched_init') was introduced by c99c1994a2bb9493b4ac372b2b6ee2606d291171 This patch removes the warning. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spufs: Add spu stats in sysfsChristoph Hellwig
Export spu statistics in sysfs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spusched: Fix runqueue corruptionChristoph Hellwig
spu_activate can be called from multiple threads at the same time on behalf of the same spu context. We need to make sure to only add it once to avoid runqueue corruption. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spusched: Disable tick when not neededChristoph Hellwig
Only enable the scheduler tick if we have any context waiting to be scheduled. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spufs: Add stat file to spufsChristoph Hellwig
Export per-context statistics in spufs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spufs: Implement /proc/spu_loadavgChristoph Hellwig
Provide load average information for spu context. The format is identical to /proc/loadavg, which is also where a lot of code and concepts is borrowed from. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spufs: Add tid fileChristoph Hellwig
The new tid file contains the ID of the thread currently running the context, if any. This is used so that the new spu-top and spu-ps tools can find the thread in /proc. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spufs: Trivial whitespace fixesJeremy Kerr
Remove redundant whitespace in arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/ Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spusched: No preemption for nosched contextsChristoph Hellwig
And last but not least we need to make sure the scheduler tick never preempts a nosched context. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spusched: Catch nosched contexts in spu_deactivateChristoph Hellwig
spu_deactivate should never be called for nosched contets. Put in a check so we can print a stacktrace and exit early in case it happes erroneously. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spusched: fix cpu/node bindingChristoph Hellwig
Add a cpus_allowed allowed filed to struct spu_context so that we always use the cpu mask of the owning thread instead of the one happening to call into the scheduler. Also use this information in grab_runnable_context to avoid spurious wakeups. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spusched: Update scheduling paramters on every spu_runChristoph Hellwig
Update scheduling information on every spu_run to allow for setting threads to realtime priority just before running them. This requires some slightly ugly code in spufs_run_spu because we can just update the information unlocked if the spu is not runnable, but we need to acquire the active_mutex when it is runnable to protect against find_victim. This locking scheme requires opencoding spu_acquire_runnable in spufs_run_spu which actually is a nice cleanup all by itself. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spusched: Print out scheduling tunables with DEBUGJeremy Kerr
Print out a few scheduler tuning parameters when we've compiled with DEBUG defined. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spusched: Fix timeslice calculationsJeremy Kerr
The current timeslice code mixes 'jiffies' up with 'spesched ticks'. This change correctly defines the number of time slices each SPE contexts is given, and clarifies the comment. This brings the default timeslice for SPE contexts into a reasonable range. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spusched: Dynamic timeslicing for SCHED_OTHERChristoph Hellwig
Enable preemptive scheduling for non-RT contexts. We use the same algorithms as the CPU scheduler to calculate the time slice length, and for now we also use the same timeslice length as the CPU scheduler. This might be not enough for good performance and can be changed after some benchmarking. Note that currently we do not boost the priority for contexts waiting on the runqueue for a long time, so contexts with a higher nice value could starve ones with less priority. This could easily be fixed once the rework of the spu lists that Luke and I discussed is done. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-03[POWERPC] spusched: Switch from workqueues to kthread + timer tickChristoph Hellwig
Get rid of the scheduler workqueues that complicated things a lot to a dedicated spu scheduler thread that gets woken by a traditional scheduler tick. By default this scheduler tick runs a HZ * 10, aka one spu scheduler tick for every 10 cpu ticks. Currently the tick is not disabled when we have less context than available spus, but I will implement this later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-06-07[POWERPC] spufs: Don't yield nosched contextChristoph Hellwig
Nosched context sould never be scheduled out, thus we must not deactivate them in spu_yield ever. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-06-07[POWERPC] spufs scheduler: Fix wakeup racesChristoph Hellwig
Fix the race between checking for contexts on the runqueue and actually waking them in spu_deactive and spu_yield. The guts of spu_reschedule are split into a new helper called grab_runnable_context which shows if there is a runnable thread below a specified priority and if yes removes if from the runqueue and uses it. This function is used by the new __spu_deactivate hepler shared by preemption and spu_yield to grab a new context before deactivating a specified priority and if yes removes if from the runqueue and uses it. This function is used by the new __spu_deactivate hepler shared by preemption and spu_yield to grab a new context before deactivating the old one. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>