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SubjectRe: interactive task starvation
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On Wednesday 22 March 2006 01:17, Con Kolivas wrote:
> I actually believe the same effect can be had by a tiny
> modification to enable/disable the estimator anyway.

Just for argument's sake it would look something like this.

Cheers,
Con
---
Add sysctl to enable/disable cpu scheduer interactivity estimator

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>

---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
include/linux/sysctl.h | 1 +
kernel/sched.c | 14 +++++++++++---
kernel/sysctl.c | 8 ++++++++
4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm2/include/linux/sched.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm2.orig/include/linux/sched.h 2006-03-19 11:15:27.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm2/include/linux/sched.h 2006-03-22 02:13:55.000000000 +1100
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ extern unsigned long nr_uninterruptible(
extern unsigned long nr_active(void);
extern unsigned long nr_iowait(void);
extern unsigned long weighted_cpuload(const int cpu);
+extern int sched_interactive;

#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/param.h>
Index: linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm2/include/linux/sysctl.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm2.orig/include/linux/sysctl.h 2006-03-19 11:15:27.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm2/include/linux/sysctl.h 2006-03-22 02:14:43.000000000 +1100
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ enum
KERN_SPIN_RETRY=70, /* int: number of spinlock retries */
KERN_ACPI_VIDEO_FLAGS=71, /* int: flags for setting up video after ACPI sleep */
KERN_IA64_UNALIGNED=72, /* int: ia64 unaligned userland trap enable */
+ KERN_INTERACTIVE=73, /* int: enable/disable interactivity estimator */
};


Index: linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm2/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm2.orig/kernel/sched.c 2006-03-19 15:41:08.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm2/kernel/sched.c 2006-03-22 02:13:56.000000000 +1100
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@
* too hard.
*/

+/* Sysctl enable/disable interactive estimator */
+int sched_interactive __read_mostly = 1;
+
#define CURRENT_BONUS(p) \
(NS_TO_JIFFIES((p)->sleep_avg) * MAX_BONUS / \
MAX_SLEEP_AVG)
@@ -151,7 +154,8 @@
INTERACTIVE_DELTA)

#define TASK_INTERACTIVE(p) \
- ((p)->prio <= (p)->static_prio - DELTA(p))
+ ((p)->prio <= (p)->static_prio - DELTA(p) && \
+ sched_interactive)

#define INTERACTIVE_SLEEP(p) \
(JIFFIES_TO_NS(MAX_SLEEP_AVG * \
@@ -662,9 +666,13 @@ static int effective_prio(task_t *p)
if (rt_task(p))
return p->prio;

- bonus = CURRENT_BONUS(p) - MAX_BONUS / 2;
+ prio = p->static_prio;
+
+ if (sched_interactive) {
+ bonus = CURRENT_BONUS(p) - MAX_BONUS / 2;

- prio = p->static_prio - bonus;
+ prio -= bonus;
+ }
if (prio < MAX_RT_PRIO)
prio = MAX_RT_PRIO;
if (prio > MAX_PRIO-1)
Index: linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm2/kernel/sysctl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm2.orig/kernel/sysctl.c 2006-03-19 11:15:27.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm2/kernel/sysctl.c 2006-03-22 02:15:23.000000000 +1100
@@ -684,6 +684,14 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
#endif
+ {
+ .ctl_name = KERN_SCHED_INTERACTIVE,
+ .procname = "interactive",
+ .data = &sched_interactive,
+ .maxlen = sizeof (int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+ },
{ .ctl_name = 0 }
};

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