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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] [RESEND] sched: Fully integrate cpus_active_map and root-domain code
Gregory Haskins wrote:
> (Applies to 2.6.31-rc4)
>
> [
> This patch was originaly sent about a year ago, but got dropped
> presumably by accident. Here is the original thread.
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/22/281
>
> At that time, Peter and Max acked it. It has now been forward
> ported to the new cpumask interface. I will be so bold as to
> carry their acks forward since the basic logic is the same.
> However, a new acknowledgement, if they have the time to review,
> would be ideal.
>
> I have tested this patch on a 4-way system using Max's recommended
> "echo 0|1 > cpu1/online" technique and it appears to work properly
> ]
>
> What: Reflect "active" cpus in the rq->rd->online field, instead of the
> online_map.
>
> Motivation: Things that use the root-domain code (such as cpupri) only
> care about cpus classified as "active" anyway. By synchronizing the
> root-domain state with the active map, we allow several optimizations.
>
> For instance, we can remove an extra cpumask_and from the scheduler
> hotpath by utilizing rq->rd->online (since it is now a cached version
> of cpu_active_map & rq->rd->span).
>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
> ---
>
> kernel/sched.c | 2 +-
> kernel/sched_fair.c | 10 +++++++---
> kernel/sched_rt.c | 7 -------
> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> index 1a104e6..38a1526 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -7874,7 +7874,7 @@ static void rq_attach_root(struct rq *rq, struct root_domain *rd)
> rq->rd = rd;
>
> cpumask_set_cpu(rq->cpu, rd->span);
> - if (cpumask_test_cpu(rq->cpu, cpu_online_mask))
> + if (cpumask_test_cpu(rq->cpu, cpu_active_mask))
> set_rq_online(rq);
>
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
> diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
> index 9ffb2b2..2b9cae6 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
> @@ -1040,17 +1040,21 @@ static void yield_task_fair(struct rq *rq)
> * search starts with cpus closest then further out as needed,
> * so we always favor a closer, idle cpu.
> * Domains may include CPUs that are not usable for migration,
> - * hence we need to mask them out (cpu_active_mask)
> + * hence we need to mask them out (rq->rd->online)
> *
> * Returns the CPU we should wake onto.
> */
> #if defined(ARCH_HAS_SCHED_WAKE_IDLE)
> +
> +#define cpu_rd_active(cpu, rq) cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, rq->rd->online)
> +
> static int wake_idle(int cpu, struct task_struct *p)
> {
> struct sched_domain *sd;
> int i;
> unsigned int chosen_wakeup_cpu;
> int this_cpu;
> + struct rq *task_rq = task_rq(p);
>
> /*
> * At POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE_WAKEUP level, if both this_cpu and prev_cpu
> @@ -1083,10 +1087,10 @@ static int wake_idle(int cpu, struct task_struct *p)
> for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
> if ((sd->flags & SD_WAKE_IDLE)
> || ((sd->flags & SD_WAKE_IDLE_FAR)
> - && !task_hot(p, task_rq(p)->clock, sd))) {
> + && !task_hot(p, task_rq->clock, sd))) {
> for_each_cpu_and(i, sched_domain_span(sd),
> &p->cpus_allowed) {

Hmm, something got suboptimal in translation from the original patch.

This would be better expressed as:

for_each_cpu_and(i, rq->rd->online, &p->cpus_allowed) {
if (idle_cpu(i)...
}

> - if (cpu_active(i) && idle_cpu(i)) {
> + if (cpu_rd_active(i, task_rq) && idle_cpu(i)) {
> if (i != task_cpu(p)) {
> schedstat_inc(p,
> se.nr_wakeups_idle);
> diff --git a/kernel/sched_rt.c b/kernel/sched_rt.c
> index a8f89bc..13f728e 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched_rt.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched_rt.c
> @@ -1173,13 +1173,6 @@ static int find_lowest_rq(struct task_struct *task)
> return -1; /* No targets found */
>
> /*
> - * Only consider CPUs that are usable for migration.
> - * I guess we might want to change cpupri_find() to ignore those
> - * in the first place.
> - */
> - cpumask_and(lowest_mask, lowest_mask, cpu_active_mask);
> -
> - /*
> * At this point we have built a mask of cpus representing the
> * lowest priority tasks in the system. Now we want to elect
> * the best one based on our affinity and topology.
>
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