Re: [sched/rt] Optimization of function pull_rt_task()

From: Kirill Tkhai
Date: Fri Jun 01 2012 - 12:55:16 EST




19.04.2012, 12:54, "Yong Zhang" <yong.zhang0@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 05:16:55PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
>>  On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 14:32 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>>  On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 12:06 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>>>  On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 23:45 +0400, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>>>>>  The condition (src_rq->rt.rt_nr_running) is weak because it doesn't
>>>>>  consider the cases when src_rq has only processes bound to it (when
>>>>>  single cpu is allowed). It may be running kernel thread like
>>>>>  migration/x etc.
>>>>>
>>>>>  So it's better to use more stronger condition which is able to exclude
>>>>>  above conditions. The function has_pushable_tasks() complitely does
>>>>>  this. A task may be pullable for another cpu rq only if he is pushable
>>>>>  for his own queue.
>>>>  I considered this before, and for some reason I never did the change.
>>>>  I'll have to think about it. It seems like this would be the obvious
>>>>  case, but I think there was something not so obvious that caused issues.
>>>>  But I don't remember what it was.
>>>>
>>>>  I'll have to rethink this again.
>>>  I can't find anything wrong with this change. Maybe things change, or I
>>>  was thinking of another change.
>>>
>>>  I'll apply it and start running my tests against it.
>>  Not only does this seem to work fine, I took it one step further :-)
>
> Hmm... throttle doesn't handle the pushable list, so we may find a
> throttled task by pick_next_pushable_task().
>
> Thanks,
> Yong

I don't complitelly understand throttle logic.

Is the source patch not-appliable the same reason?

Kirill

>
>>  Peter, do you see anything wrong with this patch?
>>
>>  -- Steve
>>
>>  diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
>>  index 61e3086..b44fd1b 100644
>>  --- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
>>  +++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
>>  @@ -1416,39 +1416,15 @@ static int pick_rt_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
>>   /* Return the second highest RT task, NULL otherwise */
>>   static struct task_struct *pick_next_highest_task_rt(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
>>   {
>>  - struct task_struct *next = NULL;
>>  - struct sched_rt_entity *rt_se;
>>  - struct rt_prio_array *array;
>>  - struct rt_rq *rt_rq;
>>  - int idx;
>>  + struct plist_head *head = &rq->rt.pushable_tasks;
>>  + struct task_struct *next;
>>
>>  - for_each_leaf_rt_rq(rt_rq, rq) {
>>  - array = &rt_rq->active;
>>  - idx = sched_find_first_bit(array->bitmap);
>>  -next_idx:
>>  - if (idx >= MAX_RT_PRIO)
>>  - continue;
>>  - if (next && next->prio <= idx)
>>  - continue;
>>  - list_for_each_entry(rt_se, array->queue + idx, run_list) {
>>  - struct task_struct *p;
>>  -
>>  - if (!rt_entity_is_task(rt_se))
>>  - continue;
>>  -
>>  - p = rt_task_of(rt_se);
>>  - if (pick_rt_task(rq, p, cpu)) {
>>  - next = p;
>>  - break;
>>  - }
>>  - }
>>  - if (!next) {
>>  - idx = find_next_bit(array->bitmap, MAX_RT_PRIO, idx+1);
>>  - goto next_idx;
>>  - }
>>  + plist_for_each_entry(next, head, pushable_tasks) {
>>  + if (pick_rt_task(rq, next, cpu))
>>  + return next;
>>           }
>>
>>  - return next;
>>  + return NULL;
>>   }
>>
>>   static DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, local_cpu_mask);
>>
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