Re: Plumbers: Tweaking scheduler policy micro-conf RFP

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed May 23 2012 - 11:44:04 EST


On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 17:03 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Chen <hi3766691@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Still you are just trying to said that your code is not bloated?
> > Up to over 500K for a cpu scheduler. Laughing
>
> Where did you get that 500K from? You are off from the truth
> almost by an order of magnitude.
>
> Here's the scheduler size on Linus's latest tree, on 64-bit
> defconfig's:
>
> $ size kernel/sched/built-in.o
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 83611 10404 2524 96539 1791b kernel/sched/built-in.o
>
> That's SMP+NUMA, i.e. everything included.
>
> The !NUMA !SMP UP scheduler, if you are on a size starved
> ultra-embedded device, is even smaller, just 22K:
>
> $ size kernel/sched/built-in.o
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 19882 2218 148 22248 56e8 kernel/sched/built-in.o

Here's an allyesconfig x86-32
$ size kernel/sched/built-in.o
text data bss dec hex filename
213892 10856 65832 290580 46f14 kernel/sched/built-in.o

But that's not the only sched related code.

In a 1000 cpu config, there also an extra 500+ bytes per cpu
in printk (I don't think that's particularly important btw)

kernel/printk.c adds:

static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char [PRINTK_BUF_SIZE], printk_sched_buf);

Maybe #ifdefing this when !CONFIG_PRINTK would reduce size
a little in a few cases. I've attached a trivial suggested patch.

btw: There's still the unnecessary
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, printk_pending);
but the code is more involved around that one.

printk.c needs some refactoring and modularization,
it's pretty ugly right now.

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 32462d2..3bd9a11 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1734,16 +1734,21 @@ int is_console_locked(void)
#define PRINTK_PENDING_SCHED 0x02

static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, printk_pending);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char [PRINTK_BUF_SIZE], printk_sched_buf);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char[PRINTK_BUF_SIZE], printk_sched_buf);
+#endif

void printk_tick(void)
{
if (__this_cpu_read(printk_pending)) {
int pending = __this_cpu_xchg(printk_pending, 0);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_SCHED) {
char *buf = __get_cpu_var(printk_sched_buf);
printk(KERN_WARNING "[sched_delayed] %s", buf);
}
+#endif
if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP)
wake_up_interruptible(&log_wait);
}


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