Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754763AbYLOIq6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:46:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752670AbYLOIqu (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:46:50 -0500 Received: from E23SMTP02.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.163]:51074 "EHLO e23smtp02.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752312AbYLOIqt (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:46:49 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:16:42 +0530 From: Balbir Singh To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan , Linux Kernel , Suresh B Siddha , Venkatesh Pallipadi , Ingo Molnar , Dipankar Sarma , Vatsa , Gautham R Shenoy , Andi Kleen , David Collier-Brown , Tim Connors , Max Krasnyansky , Gregory Haskins Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 4/7] sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages Message-ID: <20081215084642.GJ18403@balbir.in.ibm.com> Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mail-Followup-To: Peter Zijlstra , Vaidyanathan Srinivasan , Linux Kernel , Suresh B Siddha , Venkatesh Pallipadi , Ingo Molnar , Dipankar Sarma , Vatsa , Gautham R Shenoy , Andi Kleen , David Collier-Brown , Tim Connors , Max Krasnyansky , Gregory Haskins References: <20081211173831.2020.57550.stgit@drishya.in.ibm.com> <20081211174304.2020.14746.stgit@drishya.in.ibm.com> <20081215070139.GE18403@balbir.in.ibm.com> <1229329521.14605.17.camel@twins> <1229329984.14605.18.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1229329984.14605.18.camel@twins> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2206 Lines: 54 * Peter Zijlstra [2008-12-15 09:33:04]: > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:25 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 12:31 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > > > > > > kernel/sched_fair.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ > > > > 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > > > > > diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c > > > > index 98345e4..939f2a1 100644 > > > > --- a/kernel/sched_fair.c > > > > +++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c > > > > @@ -1027,6 +1027,23 @@ static int wake_idle(int cpu, struct task_struct *p) > > > > cpumask_t tmp; > > > > struct sched_domain *sd; > > > > int i; > > > > + unsigned int chosen_wakeup_cpu; > > > > + int this_cpu; > > > > + > > > > + /* > > > > + * At POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE_WAKEUP level, if both this_cpu and prev_cpu > > > > + * are idle and this is not a kernel thread and this task's affinity > > > > + * allows it to be moved to preferred cpu, then just move! > > > > + */ > > > > + > > > > + this_cpu = smp_processor_id(); > > > > + chosen_wakeup_cpu = > > > > + cpu_rq(this_cpu)->rd->sched_mc_preferred_wakeup_cpu; > > > > + > > > > + if (sched_mc_power_savings >= POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE_WAKEUP && > > > > + idle_cpu(cpu) && idle_cpu(this_cpu) && p->mm && > > > > > > The p->mm check is racy, it needs to be done under task_lock(). The > > > best way to check for a kernel thread is get_task_mm(), followed by > > > put_task_mm() is the mm is not NULL. We also need to check to see if > > > the task is _hot_ on cpu. We should negate this optimization in case > > > chosen_wakeup_cpu is idle, so check for that as well. > > > > Sure its racy, but so what? > > > > The worst I can see it that we exclude a dying task from this logic, > > which isn't a problem at all, since its dying anyway. > > At which point I seriously doubt it'd still be on the rq anyway. > I forgot to mention that, the check should be (p->mm && !(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) -- Balbir -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/