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authorGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>2008-01-25 21:08:11 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-25 21:08:11 +0100
commit6e1254d2c41215da27025add8900ed187bca121d (patch)
treef68081e3b87d44c20a1b2739cf0119d8624208b0 /kernel/sched_rt.c
parent318e0893ce3f524ca045f9fd9dfd567c0a6f9446 (diff)
downloadlinux-6e1254d2c41215da27025add8900ed187bca121d.tar.bz2
sched: optimize RT affinity
The current code base assumes a relatively flat CPU/core topology and will route RT tasks to any CPU fairly equally. In the real world, there are various toplogies and affinities that govern where a task is best suited to run with the smallest amount of overhead. NUMA and multi-core CPUs are prime examples of topologies that can impact cache performance. Fortunately, linux is already structured to represent these topologies via the sched_domains interface. So we change our RT router to consult a combination of topology and affinity policy to best place tasks during migration. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched_rt.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched_rt.c100
1 files changed, 88 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched_rt.c b/kernel/sched_rt.c
index ac7d06786454..a9d7d4408160 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_rt.c
@@ -281,35 +281,111 @@ static struct task_struct *pick_next_highest_task_rt(struct rq *rq,
}
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_t, local_cpu_mask);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_t, valid_cpu_mask);
-static int find_lowest_rq(struct task_struct *task)
+static int find_lowest_cpus(struct task_struct *task, cpumask_t *lowest_mask)
{
- int cpu;
- cpumask_t *cpu_mask = &__get_cpu_var(local_cpu_mask);
- struct rq *lowest_rq = NULL;
+ int cpu;
+ cpumask_t *valid_mask = &__get_cpu_var(valid_cpu_mask);
+ int lowest_prio = -1;
+ int ret = 0;
- cpus_and(*cpu_mask, cpu_online_map, task->cpus_allowed);
+ cpus_clear(*lowest_mask);
+ cpus_and(*valid_mask, cpu_online_map, task->cpus_allowed);
/*
* Scan each rq for the lowest prio.
*/
- for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, *cpu_mask) {
+ for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, *valid_mask) {
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
/* We look for lowest RT prio or non-rt CPU */
if (rq->rt.highest_prio >= MAX_RT_PRIO) {
- lowest_rq = rq;
- break;
+ if (ret)
+ cpus_clear(*lowest_mask);
+ cpu_set(rq->cpu, *lowest_mask);
+ return 1;
}
/* no locking for now */
- if (rq->rt.highest_prio > task->prio &&
- (!lowest_rq || rq->rt.highest_prio > lowest_rq->rt.highest_prio)) {
- lowest_rq = rq;
+ if ((rq->rt.highest_prio > task->prio)
+ && (rq->rt.highest_prio >= lowest_prio)) {
+ if (rq->rt.highest_prio > lowest_prio) {
+ /* new low - clear old data */
+ lowest_prio = rq->rt.highest_prio;
+ cpus_clear(*lowest_mask);
+ }
+ cpu_set(rq->cpu, *lowest_mask);
+ ret = 1;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static inline int pick_optimal_cpu(int this_cpu, cpumask_t *mask)
+{
+ int first;
+
+ /* "this_cpu" is cheaper to preempt than a remote processor */
+ if ((this_cpu != -1) && cpu_isset(this_cpu, *mask))
+ return this_cpu;
+
+ first = first_cpu(*mask);
+ if (first != NR_CPUS)
+ return first;
+
+ return -1;
+}
+
+static int find_lowest_rq(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+ struct sched_domain *sd;
+ cpumask_t *lowest_mask = &__get_cpu_var(local_cpu_mask);
+ int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ int cpu = task_cpu(task);
+
+ if (!find_lowest_cpus(task, lowest_mask))
+ return -1;
+
+ /*
+ * At this point we have built a mask of cpus representing the
+ * lowest priority tasks in the system. Now we want to elect
+ * the best one based on our affinity and topology.
+ *
+ * We prioritize the last cpu that the task executed on since
+ * it is most likely cache-hot in that location.
+ */
+ if (cpu_isset(cpu, *lowest_mask))
+ return cpu;
+
+ /*
+ * Otherwise, we consult the sched_domains span maps to figure
+ * out which cpu is logically closest to our hot cache data.
+ */
+ if (this_cpu == cpu)
+ this_cpu = -1; /* Skip this_cpu opt if the same */
+
+ for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
+ if (sd->flags & SD_WAKE_AFFINE) {
+ cpumask_t domain_mask;
+ int best_cpu;
+
+ cpus_and(domain_mask, sd->span, *lowest_mask);
+
+ best_cpu = pick_optimal_cpu(this_cpu,
+ &domain_mask);
+ if (best_cpu != -1)
+ return best_cpu;
}
}
- return lowest_rq ? lowest_rq->cpu : -1;
+ /*
+ * And finally, if there were no matches within the domains
+ * just give the caller *something* to work with from the compatible
+ * locations.
+ */
+ return pick_optimal_cpu(this_cpu, lowest_mask);
}
/* Will lock the rq it finds */