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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-04-11 10:43:41 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-05-15 15:32:45 +0200
commitdce48a84adf1806676319f6f480e30a6daa012f9 (patch)
tree79151f5d31d9c3dcdc723ab8877cb943b944890e /kernel
parent2ff799d3cff1ecb274049378b28120ee5c1c5e5f (diff)
sched, timers: move calc_load() to scheduler
Dimitri Sivanich noticed that xtime_lock is held write locked across calc_load() which iterates over all online CPUs. That can cause long latencies for xtime_lock readers on large SMP systems. The load average calculation is an rough estimate anyway so there is no real need to protect the readers vs. the update. It's not a problem when the avenrun array is updated while a reader copies the values. Instead of iterating over all online CPUs let the scheduler_tick code update the number of active tasks shortly before the avenrun update happens. The avenrun update itself is handled by the CPU which calls do_timer(). [ Impact: reduce xtime_lock write locked section ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c84
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched_idletask.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/timekeeping.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/timer.c54
4 files changed, 79 insertions, 64 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 8908d190a34..f4eb88153bd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -630,6 +630,10 @@ struct rq {
struct list_head migration_queue;
#endif
+ /* calc_load related fields */
+ unsigned long calc_load_update;
+ long calc_load_active;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
int hrtick_csd_pending;
@@ -1728,6 +1732,8 @@ static void cfs_rq_set_shares(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, unsigned long shares)
}
#endif
+static void calc_load_account_active(struct rq *this_rq);
+
#include "sched_stats.h"
#include "sched_idletask.c"
#include "sched_fair.c"
@@ -2856,19 +2862,57 @@ unsigned long nr_iowait(void)
return sum;
}
-unsigned long nr_active(void)
+/* Variables and functions for calc_load */
+static atomic_long_t calc_load_tasks;
+static unsigned long calc_load_update;
+unsigned long avenrun[3];
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(avenrun);
+
+static unsigned long
+calc_load(unsigned long load, unsigned long exp, unsigned long active)
{
- unsigned long i, running = 0, uninterruptible = 0;
+ load *= exp;
+ load += active * (FIXED_1 - exp);
+ return load >> FSHIFT;
+}
- for_each_online_cpu(i) {
- running += cpu_rq(i)->nr_running;
- uninterruptible += cpu_rq(i)->nr_uninterruptible;
- }
+/*
+ * calc_load - update the avenrun load estimates 10 ticks after the
+ * CPUs have updated calc_load_tasks.
+ */
+void calc_global_load(void)
+{
+ unsigned long upd = calc_load_update + 10;
+ long active;
+
+ if (time_before(jiffies, upd))
+ return;
- if (unlikely((long)uninterruptible < 0))
- uninterruptible = 0;
+ active = atomic_long_read(&calc_load_tasks);
+ active = active > 0 ? active * FIXED_1 : 0;
- return running + uninterruptible;
+ avenrun[0] = calc_load(avenrun[0], EXP_1, active);
+ avenrun[1] = calc_load(avenrun[1], EXP_5, active);
+ avenrun[2] = calc_load(avenrun[2], EXP_15, active);
+
+ calc_load_update += LOAD_FREQ;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Either called from update_cpu_load() or from a cpu going idle
+ */
+static void calc_load_account_active(struct rq *this_rq)
+{
+ long nr_active, delta;
+
+ nr_active = this_rq->nr_running;
+ nr_active += (long) this_rq->nr_uninterruptible;
+
+ if (nr_active != this_rq->calc_load_active) {
+ delta = nr_active - this_rq->calc_load_active;
+ this_rq->calc_load_active = nr_active;
+ atomic_long_add(delta, &calc_load_tasks);
+ }
}
/*
@@ -2899,6 +2943,11 @@ static void update_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq)
new_load += scale-1;
this_rq->cpu_load[i] = (old_load*(scale-1) + new_load) >> i;
}
+
+ if (time_after_eq(jiffies, this_rq->calc_load_update)) {
+ this_rq->calc_load_update += LOAD_FREQ;
+ calc_load_account_active(this_rq);
+ }
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
@@ -7091,6 +7140,14 @@ static void migrate_dead_tasks(unsigned int dead_cpu)
}
}
+
+/*
+ * remove the tasks which were accounted by rq from calc_load_tasks.
+ */
+static void calc_global_load_remove(struct rq *rq)
+{
+ atomic_long_sub(rq->calc_load_active, &calc_load_tasks);
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
#if defined(CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG) && defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL)
@@ -7325,6 +7382,8 @@ migration_call(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
/* Update our root-domain */
rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
spin_lock_irqsave(&rq->lock, flags);
+ rq->calc_load_update = calc_load_update;
+ rq->calc_load_active = 0;
if (rq->rd) {
BUG_ON(!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, rq->rd->span));
@@ -7364,7 +7423,7 @@ migration_call(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
cpuset_unlock();
migrate_nr_uninterruptible(rq);
BUG_ON(rq->nr_running != 0);
-
+ calc_global_load_remove(rq);
/*
* No need to migrate the tasks: it was best-effort if
* they didn't take sched_hotcpu_mutex. Just wake up
@@ -9059,6 +9118,8 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
rq = cpu_rq(i);
spin_lock_init(&rq->lock);
rq->nr_running = 0;
+ rq->calc_load_active = 0;
+ rq->calc_load_update = jiffies + LOAD_FREQ;
init_cfs_rq(&rq->cfs, rq);
init_rt_rq(&rq->rt, rq);
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
@@ -9166,6 +9227,9 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
* when this runqueue becomes "idle".
*/
init_idle(current, smp_processor_id());
+
+ calc_load_update = jiffies + LOAD_FREQ;
+
/*
* During early bootup we pretend to be a normal task:
*/
diff --git a/kernel/sched_idletask.c b/kernel/sched_idletask.c
index 8a21a2e28c1..499672c10cb 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_idletask.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_idletask.c
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ static void check_preempt_curr_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sy
static struct task_struct *pick_next_task_idle(struct rq *rq)
{
schedstat_inc(rq, sched_goidle);
-
+ /* adjust the active tasks as we might go into a long sleep */
+ calc_load_account_active(rq);
return rq->idle;
}
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 687dff49f6e..52a8bf8931f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
/*
* This read-write spinlock protects us from races in SMP while
- * playing with xtime and avenrun.
+ * playing with xtime.
*/
__cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SEQLOCK(xtime_lock);
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index cffffad01c3..6a21d7af962 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1123,47 +1123,6 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick)
}
/*
- * Nr of active tasks - counted in fixed-point numbers
- */
-static unsigned long count_active_tasks(void)
-{
- return nr_active() * FIXED_1;
-}
-
-/*
- * Hmm.. Changed this, as the GNU make sources (load.c) seems to
- * imply that avenrun[] is the standard name for this kind of thing.
- * Nothing else seems to be standardized: the fractional size etc
- * all seem to differ on different machines.
- *
- * Requires xtime_lock to access.
- */
-unsigned long avenrun[3];
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(avenrun);
-
-/*
- * calc_load - given tick count, update the avenrun load estimates.
- * This is called while holding a write_lock on xtime_lock.
- */
-static inline void calc_load(unsigned long ticks)
-{
- unsigned long active_tasks; /* fixed-point */
- static int count = LOAD_FREQ;
-
- count -= ticks;
- if (unlikely(count < 0)) {
- active_tasks = count_active_tasks();
- do {
- CALC_LOAD(avenrun[0], EXP_1, active_tasks);
- CALC_LOAD(avenrun[1], EXP_5, active_tasks);
- CALC_LOAD(avenrun[2], EXP_15, active_tasks);
- count += LOAD_FREQ;
- } while (count < 0);
- }
-}
-
-/*
* This function runs timers and the timer-tq in bottom half context.
*/
static void run_timer_softirq(struct softirq_action *h)
@@ -1187,16 +1146,6 @@ void run_local_timers(void)
}
/*
- * Called by the timer interrupt. xtime_lock must already be taken
- * by the timer IRQ!
- */
-static inline void update_times(unsigned long ticks)
-{
- update_wall_time();
- calc_load(ticks);
-}
-
-/*
* The 64-bit jiffies value is not atomic - you MUST NOT read it
* without sampling the sequence number in xtime_lock.
* jiffies is defined in the linker script...
@@ -1205,7 +1154,8 @@ static inline void update_times(unsigned long ticks)
void do_timer(unsigned long ticks)
{
jiffies_64 += ticks;
- update_times(ticks);
+ update_wall_time();
+ calc_global_load();
}
#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_SYS_ALARM