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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.4
Con Kolivas wrote:
> Here is an incremental patch from 2.6.7-staircase7.4 (without any later
> changes) to staircase7.6 which I hope addresses your problem of no
> timeslice tasks. Can you try it please? Sorry about the previous noise.
>
> Con
>
> P.S.
> Those with ck kernels I'm about to post another diff for -ck addressing
> the same thing.


Eeek that one I posted _was_ the one for ck kernels. This is the one for
vanilla kernels with staircase7.4. Crikey I'm having a blowout here.

Con
Index: linux-2.6.7-staircase/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.7-staircase.orig/kernel/sched.c 2004-06-25 02:24:34.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.6.7-staircase/kernel/sched.c 2004-06-27 21:49:48.912434799 +1000
@@ -218,8 +218,8 @@

static void enqueue_task(struct task_struct *p, runqueue_t *rq)
{
- if (rq->curr->flags & PF_PREEMPTED) {
- rq->curr->flags &= ~PF_PREEMPTED;
+ if (p->flags & PF_PREEMPTED) {
+ p->flags &= ~PF_PREEMPTED;
list_add(&p->run_list, rq->queue + p->prio);
} else
list_add_tail(&p->run_list, rq->queue + p->prio);
@@ -255,7 +255,10 @@
rq->nr_running++;
}

-// burst - extra intervals an interactive task can run for at best priority
+/*
+ * burst - extra intervals an interactive task can run for at best priority
+ * instead of descending priorities.
+ */
static unsigned int burst(task_t *p)
{
unsigned int task_user_prio;
@@ -282,7 +285,10 @@
p->burst--;
}

-// slice - the duration a task runs before losing burst
+/*
+ * slice - the duration a task runs before getting requeued at it's best
+ * priority and has it's burst decremented.
+ */
static unsigned int slice(task_t *p)
{
unsigned int slice = RR_INTERVAL;
@@ -291,7 +297,9 @@
return slice;
}

-// interactive - interactive tasks get longer intervals at best priority
+/*
+ * interactive - sysctl which allows interactive tasks to have bursts
+ */
int interactive = 1;

/*
@@ -326,20 +334,25 @@
return prio;
}

+/*
+ * recalc_task_prio - this checks for tasks that run ultra short timeslices
+ * or have just forked a thread/process and make them continue their old
+ * slice instead of starting a new one at high priority.
+ */
static void recalc_task_prio(task_t *p, unsigned long long now)
{
unsigned long sleep_time = now - p->timestamp;
- unsigned long run_time = NS_TO_JIFFIES(p->runtime);
- unsigned long total_run = NS_TO_JIFFIES(p->totalrun) + run_time;
- if ((!run_time && NS_TO_JIFFIES(p->runtime + sleep_time) <
- RR_INTERVAL) || p->flags & PF_FORKED) {
+ unsigned long ns_totalrun = p->totalrun + p->runtime;
+ unsigned long total_run = NS_TO_JIFFIES(ns_totalrun);
+ if (p->flags & PF_FORKED || (!(NS_TO_JIFFIES(p->runtime)) &&
+ NS_TO_JIFFIES(p->runtime + sleep_time) < RR_INTERVAL)) {
p->flags &= ~PF_FORKED;
if (p->slice - total_run < 1) {
p->totalrun = 0;
dec_burst(p);
} else {
- p->totalrun += p->runtime;
- p->slice -= NS_TO_JIFFIES(p->totalrun);
+ p->totalrun = ns_totalrun;
+ p->slice -= total_run;
}
} else {
inc_burst(p);
@@ -764,7 +777,9 @@
unsigned long flags;
runqueue_t *rq = task_rq_lock(current, &flags);

- //Forked process gets no burst to prevent fork bombs.
+ /*
+ * Forked process gets no burst to prevent fork bombs.
+ */
p->burst = 0;
BUG_ON(p->state != TASK_RUNNING);

@@ -1746,11 +1761,15 @@
cpustat->system += sys_ticks;

spin_lock(&rq->lock);
- // SCHED_FIFO tasks never run out of timeslice.
+ /*
+ * SCHED_FIFO tasks never run out of timeslice.
+ */
if (unlikely(p->policy == SCHED_FIFO))
goto out_unlock;
rq->cache_ticks++;
- // Tasks lose burst each time they use up a full slice().
+ /*
+ * Tasks lose burst each time they use up a full slice().
+ */
if (!--p->slice) {
set_tsk_need_resched(p);
dequeue_task(p, rq);
@@ -3564,7 +3583,9 @@
for (j = 0; j <= MAX_PRIO; j++)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->queue[j]);
memset(rq->bitmap, 0, BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_PRIO+1)*sizeof(long));
- // delimiter for bitsearch
+ /*
+ * delimiter for bitsearch
+ */
__set_bit(MAX_PRIO, rq->bitmap);
}
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