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SubjectRe: [sched/rt] Optimization of function pull_rt_task()
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 08:45:16PM +0400, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>
>
> 19.04.2012, 12:54, "Yong Zhang" <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>:
> > 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?

I guess so.

Your patch will change the semantic of pick_next_pushable_task().

Thanks,
Yong

>
> 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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