[RFC patch 2/2] sched: sleepers coarse granularity on wakeup

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Sat Sep 11 2010 - 13:40:45 EST


Keep a larger granularity for awakened sleepers, so the "FAIR_SLEEPER" feature
is not affected by shrinking granularity.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
kernel/sched.c | 1 +
kernel/sched_debug.c | 1 +
kernel/sched_fair.c | 11 +++++++++++
4 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng.git/kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.git.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ linux-2.6-lttng.git/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ static unsigned int sched_nr_latency = 3
static unsigned int sched_nr_latency_max = 8;

/*
+ * Runtime slice given to awakened sleepers.
+ */
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_sleeper_wakeup_slice = 2000000ULL;
+
+/*
* After fork, child runs first. If set to 0 (default) then
* parent will (try to) run first.
*/
@@ -765,6 +770,7 @@ place_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, stru
thresh >>= 1;

vruntime -= thresh;
+ se->sleeper_wakeup_slice = sysctl_sched_sleeper_wakeup_slice;
}

/* ensure we never gain time by being placed backwards. */
@@ -881,6 +887,11 @@ check_preempt_tick(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq
if (!sched_feat(WAKEUP_PREEMPT))
return;

+ if (delta_exec < curr->sleeper_wakeup_slice)
+ return;
+ else
+ curr->sleeper_wakeup_slice = 0;
+
if (delta_exec < __sched_gran(cfs_rq->nr_running))
return;

Index: linux-2.6-lttng.git/include/linux/sched.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.git.orig/include/linux/sched.h
+++ linux-2.6-lttng.git/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1132,6 +1132,7 @@ struct sched_entity {
u64 prev_sum_exec_runtime;

u64 nr_migrations;
+ unsigned long sleeper_wakeup_slice;

#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
struct sched_statistics statistics;
Index: linux-2.6-lttng.git/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.git.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6-lttng.git/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2422,6 +2422,7 @@ static void __sched_fork(struct task_str
p->se.sum_exec_runtime = 0;
p->se.prev_sum_exec_runtime = 0;
p->se.nr_migrations = 0;
+ p->se.sleeper_wakeup_slice = 0;

#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
memset(&p->se.statistics, 0, sizeof(p->se.statistics));
Index: linux-2.6-lttng.git/kernel/sched_debug.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.git.orig/kernel/sched_debug.c
+++ linux-2.6-lttng.git/kernel/sched_debug.c
@@ -334,6 +334,7 @@ static int sched_debug_show(struct seq_f
PN(sysctl_sched_std_granularity);
PN(sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity);
PN(sysctl_sched_child_runs_first);
+ PN(sysctl_sched_sleeper_wakeup_slice);
P(sysctl_sched_features);
#undef PN
#undef P

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