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authorJuri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>2015-06-26 12:14:23 +0100
committerPunit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>2016-03-21 12:42:04 +0000
commite457ca2619941a621eabb01178ad3d69b990822d (patch)
tree4b8b4adebd6948021ebbf5833403884957467549
parent51eff27cb559af7f2b8fc4439893ad249576b5cd (diff)
sched/{core,fair}: trigger OPP change request on fork()
Patch "sched/fair: add triggers for OPP change requests" introduced OPP change triggers for enqueue_task_fair(), but the trigger was operating only for wakeups. Fact is that it makes sense to consider wakeup_new also (i.e., fork()), as we don't know anything about a newly created task and thus we most certainly want to jump to max OPP to not harm performance too much. However, it is not currently possible (or at least it wasn't evident to me how to do so :/) to tell new wakeups from other (non wakeup) operations. This patch introduces an additional flag in sched.h that is only set at fork() time and it is then consumed in enqueue_task_fair() for our purpose. cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c9
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/sched.h1
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index c05e95175b0a..23823e329c11 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2387,7 +2387,7 @@ void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct *p)
#endif
rq = __task_rq_lock(p);
- activate_task(rq, p, 0);
+ activate_task(rq, p, ENQUEUE_WAKEUP_NEW);
p->on_rq = TASK_ON_RQ_QUEUED;
trace_sched_wakeup_new(p);
check_preempt_curr(rq, p, WF_FORK);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 844788da00be..3937f79240df 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4171,7 +4171,8 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
{
struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq;
struct sched_entity *se = &p->se;
- int task_new = !(flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP);
+ int task_new = flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP_NEW;
+ int task_wakeup = flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP;
for_each_sched_entity(se) {
if (se->on_rq)
@@ -4215,12 +4216,8 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
* because we get here also during load balancing, but
* in these cases it seems wise to trigger as single
* request after load balancing is done.
- *
- * XXX: how about fork()? Do we need a special
- * flag/something to tell if we are here after a
- * fork() (wakeup_task_new)?
*/
- if (!task_new)
+ if (task_new || task_wakeup)
update_capacity_of(cpu_of(rq));
}
hrtick_update(rq);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index ac28024b2d7a..0052ada93ae8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1181,6 +1181,7 @@ static const u32 prio_to_wmult[40] = {
#endif
#define ENQUEUE_REPLENISH 0x08
#define ENQUEUE_RESTORE 0x10
+#define ENQUEUE_WAKEUP_NEW 0x20
#define DEQUEUE_SLEEP 0x01
#define DEQUEUE_SAVE 0x02