[RFC PATCH 12/14] sched: update_cfs_shares at period edge

From: Paul Turner
Date: Wed Feb 01 2012 - 20:44:50 EST


Now that our measurement intervals are small (~1ms) we can amortize the posting
of update_shares() to be about each period overflow. This is a large cost
saving for frequently switching tasks.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 5b6ee7a4..9e2c9a4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1141,6 +1141,7 @@ static void update_cfs_rq_blocked_load(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, int force_update)
}

__update_cfs_rq_tg_load_contrib(cfs_rq, force_update);
+ update_cfs_shares(cfs_rq);
}

static inline void update_rq_runnable_avg(struct rq *rq, int runnable)
@@ -1362,9 +1363,8 @@ enqueue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
* Update run-time statistics of the 'current'.
*/
update_curr(cfs_rq);
- enqueue_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se, flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP);
account_entity_enqueue(cfs_rq, se);
- update_cfs_shares(cfs_rq);
+ enqueue_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se, flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP);

if (flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP) {
place_entity(cfs_rq, se, 0);
@@ -1437,7 +1437,6 @@ dequeue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
* Update run-time statistics of the 'current'.
*/
update_curr(cfs_rq);
- dequeue_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se, flags & DEQUEUE_SLEEP);

update_stats_dequeue(cfs_rq, se);
if (flags & DEQUEUE_SLEEP) {
@@ -1457,8 +1456,8 @@ dequeue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)

if (se != cfs_rq->curr)
__dequeue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
- se->on_rq = 0;
account_entity_dequeue(cfs_rq, se);
+ dequeue_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se, flags & DEQUEUE_SLEEP);

/*
* Normalize the entity after updating the min_vruntime because the
@@ -1472,7 +1471,7 @@ dequeue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
return_cfs_rq_runtime(cfs_rq);

update_min_vruntime(cfs_rq);
- update_cfs_shares(cfs_rq);
+ se->on_rq = 0;
}

/*
@@ -2488,8 +2487,8 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
if (cfs_rq_throttled(cfs_rq))
break;

- update_cfs_shares(cfs_rq);
update_entity_load_avg(se, 1);
+ update_cfs_rq_blocked_load(cfs_rq, 0);
}

if (!se) {
@@ -2549,8 +2548,8 @@ static void dequeue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
if (cfs_rq_throttled(cfs_rq))
break;

- update_cfs_shares(cfs_rq);
update_entity_load_avg(se, 1);
+ update_cfs_rq_blocked_load(cfs_rq, 0);
}

if (!se) {
@@ -5836,8 +5835,11 @@ int sched_group_set_shares(struct task_group *tg, unsigned long shares)
se = tg->se[i];
/* Propagate contribution to hierarchy */
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rq->lock, flags);
- for_each_sched_entity(se)
+ for_each_sched_entity(se) {
update_cfs_shares(group_cfs_rq(se));
+ /* update contribution to parent */
+ update_entity_load_avg(se, 1);
+ }
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
}



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