[PATCH 34/41] sched: Update clock of nohz busiest rq before balancing

Frederic Weisbecker fweisbec at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 23:55:08 UTC 2012


move_tasks() and active_load_balance_cpu_stop() both need
to have the busiest rq clock uptodate because they may end
up calling can_migrate_task() that uses rq->clock_task
to determine if the task running in the busiest runqueue
is cache hot.

Hence if the busiest runqueue is tickless, update its clock
before reading it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani at kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi at redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad at benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan at gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk at qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation at gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 42a87d7..eff80e0 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4455,6 +4455,7 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
 			int *balance)
 {
 	int ld_moved, lb_flags = 0, active_balance = 0;
+	int clock_updated;
 	struct sched_group *group;
 	unsigned long imbalance;
 	struct rq *busiest;
@@ -4488,6 +4489,7 @@ redo:
 	schedstat_add(sd, lb_imbalance[idle], imbalance);
 
 	ld_moved = 0;
+	clock_updated = 0;
 	if (busiest->nr_running > 1) {
 		/*
 		 * Attempt to move tasks. If find_busiest_group has found
@@ -4498,6 +4500,12 @@ redo:
 		lb_flags |= LBF_ALL_PINNED;
 		local_irq_save(flags);
 		double_rq_lock(this_rq, busiest);
+		/*
+		 * Move tasks may end up calling can_migrate_task() which
+		 * requires an uptodate value of the rq clock.
+		 */
+		update_nohz_rq_clock(busiest);
+		clock_updated = 1;
 		ld_moved = move_tasks(this_rq, this_cpu, busiest,
 				      imbalance, sd, idle, &lb_flags);
 		double_rq_unlock(this_rq, busiest);
@@ -4563,6 +4571,13 @@ redo:
 				busiest->active_balance = 1;
 				busiest->push_cpu = this_cpu;
 				active_balance = 1;
+				/*
+				 * active_load_balance_cpu_stop may end up calling
+				 * can_migrate_task() which requires an uptodate
+				 * value of the rq clock.
+				 */
+				if (!clock_updated)
+					update_nohz_rq_clock(busiest);
 			}
 			raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&busiest->lock, flags);
 
-- 
1.7.5.4




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