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- 25 Jul, 2008 2 commits
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Miao Xie authored
Extract two functions from update_cpumask() and update_nodemask().They will be used later for updating tasks' cpus_allowed and mems_allowed after CPU/NODE offline/online. [lizf@cn.fujitsu.com: build fix] Signed-off-by:
Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paul Menage authored
This patch tweaks the signatures of the update_cpumask() and update_nodemask() functions so that they can be called directly as handlers for the new cgroups write_string() method. This allows cpuset_common_file_write() to be removed. Signed-off-by:
Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 22 Jul, 2008 1 commit
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Miao Xie authored
Fix wrong domain attr updates, or we will always update the first sched domain attr. Signed-off-by:
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- 18 Jul, 2008 1 commit
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Max Krasnyansky authored
This is based on Linus' idea of creating cpu_active_map that prevents scheduler load balancer from migrating tasks to the cpu that is going down. It allows us to simplify domain management code and avoid unecessary domain rebuilds during cpu hotplug event handling. Please ignore the cpusets part for now. It needs some more work in order to avoid crazy lock nesting. Although I did simplfy and unify domain reinitialization logic. We now simply call partition_sched_domains() in all the cases. This means that we're using exact same code paths as in cpusets case and hence the test below cover cpusets too. Cpuset changes to make rebuild_sched_domains() callable from various contexts are in the separate patch (right next after this one). This not only boots but also easily handles while true; do make clean; make -j 8; done and while true; do on-off-cpu 1; done at the same time. (on-off-cpu 1 simple does echo 0/1 > /sys/.../cpu1/online thing). Suprisingly the box (dual-core Core2) is quite usable. In fact I'm typing this on right now in gnome-terminal and things are moving just fine. Also this is running with most of the debug features enabled (lockdep, mutex, etc) no BUG_ONs or lockdep complaints so far. I believe I addressed all of the Dmitry's comments for original Linus' version. I changed both fair and rt balancer to mask out non-active cpus. And replaced cpu_is_offline() with !cpu_active() in the main scheduler code where it made sense (to me). Signed-off-by:
Max Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by:
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Cc: dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com Cc: pj@sgi.com Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 13 Jul, 2008 1 commit
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Dmitry Adamushko authored
Commit f18f982a ("sched: CPU hotplug events must not destroy scheduler domains created by the cpusets") introduced a hotplug-related problem as described below: Upon CPU_DOWN_PREPARE, update_sched_domains() -> detach_destroy_domains(&cpu_online_map) does the following: /* * Force a reinitialization of the sched domains hierarchy. The domains * and groups cannot be updated in place without racing with the balancing * code, so we temporarily attach all running cpus to the NULL domain * which will prevent rebalancing while the sched domains are recalculated. */ The sched-domains should be rebuilt when a CPU_DOWN ops. has been completed, effectively either upon CPU_DEAD{_FROZEN} (upon success) or CPU_DOWN_FAILED{_FROZEN} (upon failure -- restore the things to their initial state). That's what update_sched_domains() also does but only for !CPUSETS case. With f18f982a, sched-domains' reinitialization is delegated to CPUSETS code: cpuset_handle_cpuhp() -> common_cpu_mem_hotplug_unplug() -> rebuild_sched_domains() Being called for CPU_UP_PREPARE and if its callback is called after update_sched_domains()), it just negates all the work done by update_sched_domains() -- i.e. a soon-to-be-offline cpu is included in the sched-domains and that makes it visible for the load-balancer while the CPU_DOWN ops. is in progress. __migrate_live_tasks() moves the tasks off a 'dead' cpu (it's already "offline" when this function is called). try_to_wake_up() is called for one of these tasks from another CPU -> the load-balancer (wake_idle()) picks up a "dead" CPU and places the task on it. Then e.g. BUG_ON(rq->nr_running) detects this a bit later -> oops. Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Tested-by:
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: miaox@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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- 19 Jun, 2008 2 commits
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Li Zefan authored
We allow the inputs to be [-1 ... SD_LV_MAX), and return -EINVAL for inputs outside this range. Signed-off-by:
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Max Krasnyansky authored
First issue is not related to the cpusets. We're simply leaking doms_cur. It's allocated in arch_init_sched_domains() which is called for every hotplug event. So we just keep reallocation doms_cur without freeing it. I introduced free_sched_domains() function that cleans things up. Second issue is that sched domains created by the cpusets are completely destroyed by the CPU hotplug events. For all CPU hotplug events scheduler attaches all CPUs to the NULL domain and then puts them all into the single domain thereby destroying domains created by the cpusets (partition_sched_domains). The solution is simple, when cpusets are enabled scheduler should not create default domain and instead let cpusets do that. Which is exactly what the patch does. Signed-off-by:
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- 10 Jun, 2008 1 commit
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David Rientjes authored
Kthreads that have called kthread_bind() are bound to specific cpus, so other tasks should not be able to change their cpus_allowed from under them. Otherwise, it is possible to move kthreads, such as the migration or software watchdog threads, so they are not allowed access to the cpu they work on. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 06 Jun, 2008 2 commits
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Adding a nonexistent cpu to a cpuset will be omitted quietly. It should return -EINVAL. Example: (real_nr_cpus <= 4 < NR_CPUS or cpu#4 was just offline) # cat cpus 0-1 # /bin/echo 4 > cpus # /bin/echo $? 0 # cat cpus # The same occurs when add a nonexistent mem. This patch will fix this bug. And when *buf == "", the check is unneeded. Signed-off-by:
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
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Max Krasnyansky authored
First issue is not related to the cpusets. We're simply leaking doms_cur. It's allocated in arch_init_sched_domains() which is called for every hotplug event. So we just keep reallocation doms_cur without freeing it. I introduced free_sched_domains() function that cleans things up. Second issue is that sched domains created by the cpusets are completely destroyed by the CPU hotplug events. For all CPU hotplug events scheduler attaches all CPUs to the NULL domain and then puts them all into the single domain thereby destroying domains created by the cpusets (partition_sched_domains). The solution is simple, when cpusets are enabled scheduler should not create default domain and instead let cpusets do that. Which is exactly what the patch does. Signed-off-by:
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- 08 May, 2008 1 commit
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Paul Menage authored
Due to a merge conflict, the sched_relax_domain_level control file was marked as being handled by cpuset_read/write_u64, but the code to handle it was actually in cpuset_common_file_read/write. Since the value being written/read is in fact a signed integer, it should be treated as such; this patch adds cpuset_read/write_s64 functions, and uses them to handle the sched_relax_domain_level file. With this patch, the sched_relax_domain_level can be read and written, and the correct contents seen/updated. Signed-off-by:
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- 29 Apr, 2008 5 commits
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Paul Menage authored
This flag provides the hardwalling properties of mem_exclusive, without enforcing the exclusivity. Either mem_hardwall or mem_exclusive is sufficient to prevent GFP_KERNEL allocations from passing outside the cpuset's assigned nodes. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Menage authored
Currently the cpusets mem_exclusive flag is overloaded to mean both "no-overlapping" and "no GFP_KERNEL allocations outside this cpuset". These patches add a new mem_hardwall flag with just the allocation restriction part of the mem_exclusive semantics, without breaking backwards-compatibility for those who continue to use just mem_exclusive. Additionally, the cgroup control file registration for cpusets is cleaned up to reduce boilerplate. This patch: This change tidies up the cpusets control file definitions, and reduces the amount of boilerplate required to add/change control files in the future. Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
Make the following needlessly global functions static: - cpuset_test_cpumask() - cpuset_change_cpumask() - cpuset_do_move_task() Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by:
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Paul Menage authored
Many of the cpusets control files are simple integer values, which don't require the overhead of memory allocations for reads and writes. Move the handlers for these control files into cpuset_read_u64() and cpuset_write_u64(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: ad dmissing `break'] Signed-off-by:
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Harvey Harrison authored
kernel/cpuset.c:1268:52: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer kernel/pid_namespace.c:95:24: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by:
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
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- 28 Apr, 2008 3 commits
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Lee Schermerhorn authored
This patch renames mpol_copy() to mpol_dup() because, well, that's what it does. Like, e.g., strdup() for strings, mpol_dup() takes a pointer to an existing mempolicy, allocates a new one and copies the contents. In a later patch, I want to use the name mpol_copy() to copy the contents from one mempolicy to another like, e.g., strcpy() does for strings. Signed-off-by:
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The MPOL_BIND policy creates a zonelist that is used for allocations controlled by that mempolicy. As the per-node zonelist is already being filtered based on a zone id, this patch adds a version of __alloc_pages() that takes a nodemask for further filtering. This eliminates the need for MPOL_BIND to create a custom zonelist. A positive benefit of this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the local node's distance-ordered zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered zonelist. I.e., pages will be allocated from the closest allowed node with available memory. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: update stale documentation and comments] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask rework] Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Filtering zonelists requires very frequent use of zone_idx(). This is costly as it involves a lookup of another structure and a substraction operation. As the zone_idx is often required, it should be quickly accessible. The node idx could also be stored here if it was found that accessing zone->node is significant which may be the case on workloads where nodemasks are heavily used. This patch introduces a struct zoneref to store a zone pointer and a zone index. The zonelist then consists of an array of these struct zonerefs which are looked up as necessary. Helpers are given for accessing the zone index as well as the node index. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Suggested struct zoneref instead of embedding information in pointers] [hugh@veritas.com: mm-have-zonelist: fix memcg ooms] [hugh@veritas.com: just return do_try_to_free_pages] [hugh@veritas.com: do_try_to_free_pages gfp_mask redundant] Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 19 Apr, 2008 3 commits
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Hidetoshi Seto authored
[rebased for sched-devel/latest] - Add a new cpuset file, having levels: sched_relax_domain_level - Modify partition_sched_domains() and build_sched_domains() to take attributes parameter passed from cpuset. - Fill newidle_idx for node domains which currently unused but might be required if sched_relax_domain_level become higher. - We can change the default level by boot option 'relax_domain_level='. Signed-off-by: -
Mike Travis authored
* Cleaned up references to cpumask_scnprintf() and added new cpulist_scnprintf() interfaces where appropriate. * Fix some small bugs (or code efficiency improvments) for various uses of cpumask_scnprintf. * Clean up some checkpatch errors. Signed-off-by:Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Travis authored
* Modify cpuset_cpus_allowed to return the currently allowed cpuset via a pointer argument instead of as the function return value. * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function. * Cleanup CPU_MASK_ALL and NODE_MASK_ALL uses. Depends on: [sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function Signed-off-by:
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- 06 Mar, 2008 1 commit
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David Rientjes authored
mm migration is no longer done in cpuset_update_task_memory_state() so it can no longer take current->mm->mmap_sem, so fix the obsolete comment. [ This changed in commit 04c19fa6 ("cpuset: migrate all tasks in cpuset at once") when the mm migration was moved from cpuset_update_task_memory_state() to update_nodemask() ] Signed-off-by:
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- 08 Feb, 2008 1 commit
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Currently we possibly lookup the pid in the wrong pid namespace. So seq_file convert proc_pid_status which ensures the proper pid namespaces is passed in. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: another build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s390 build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix task_name() output] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build] Signed-off-by:
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 07 Feb, 2008 5 commits
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Paul Jackson authored
- Narrow the scope of callback_mutex in scan_for_empty_cpusets(). - Avoid rewriting the cpus, mems of cpusets except when it is likely that we'll be changing them. - Have remove_tasks_in_empty_cpuset() also check for empty mems. Signed-off-by:
Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Various minor formatting and comment tweaks to Cliff Wickman's [PATCH_3_of_3]_cpusets__update_cpumask_revision.patch I had had "iff", meaning "if and only if" in a comment. However, except for ancient mathematicians, the abbreviation "iff" was a tad too cryptic. Cliff changed it to "if", presumably figuring that the "iff" was a typo. However, it was the "only if" half of the conjunction that was most interesting. Reword to emphasis the "only if" aspect. The locking comment for remove_tasks_in_empty_cpuset() was wrong; it said callback_mutex had to be held on entry. The opposite is true. Several mentions of attach_task() in comments needed to be changed to cgroup_attach_task(). A comment about notify_on_release was no longer relevant, as the line of code it had commented, namely: set_bit(CS_RELEASED_RESOURCE, &parent->flags); is no longer present in that place in the cpuset.c code. Similarly a comment about notify_on_release before the scan_for_empty_cpusets() routine was no longer relevant. Removed extra parentheses and unnecessary return statement. Renamed attach_task() to cpuset_attach() in various comments. Removed comment about not needing memory migration, as it seems the migration is done anyway, via the cpuset_attach() callback from cgroup_attach_task(). Signed-off-by:
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Paul Menage authored
Some of the comments in kernel/cpuset.c were stale following the transition to control groups; this patch updates them to more closely match reality. Signed-off-by:
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Cliff Wickman authored
Use the new function cgroup_scan_tasks() to step through all tasks in a cpuset. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Cliff Wickman authored
This patch corrects a situation that occurs when one disables all the cpus in a cpuset. Currently, the disabled (cpu-less) cpuset inherits the cpus of its parent, which is incorrect because it may then overlap its cpu-exclusive sibling. Tasks of an empty cpuset should be moved to the cpuset which is the parent of their current cpuset. Or if the parent cpuset has no cpus, to its parent, etc. And the empty cpuset should be released (if it is flagged notify_on_release). Depends on the cgroup_scan_tasks() function (proposed by David Rientjes) to iterate through all tasks in the cpu-less cpuset. We are deliberately avoiding a walk of the tasklist. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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- 25 Jan, 2008 1 commit
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Gautham R Shenoy authored
Replace all lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug from the kernel and use get_online_cpus and put_online_cpus instead as it highlights the refcount semantics in these operations. The new API guarantees protection against the cpu-hotplug operation, but it doesn't guarantee serialized access to any of the local data structures. Hence the changes needs to be reviewed. In case of pseries_add_processor/pseries_remove_processor, use cpu_maps_update_begin()/cpu_maps_update_done() as we're modifying the cpu_present_map there. Signed-off-by:
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 19 Oct, 2007 6 commits
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Cliff Wickman authored
When a cpu is disabled, move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called for tasks that have been running on that cpu. Currently, such a task is migrated: 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed 2) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed It is typical of a multithreaded application running on a large NUMA system to have its tasks confined to a cpuset so as to cluster them near the memory that they share. Furthermore, it is typical to explicitly place such a task on a specific cpu in that cpuset. And in that case the task's cpus_allowed includes only a single cpu. This patch would insert a preference to migrate such a task to some cpu within its cpuset (and set its cpus_allowed to its entire cpuset). With this patch, migrate the task to: 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed 2) to any online cpu within the task's cpuset 3) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed In order to do this, move_task_off_dead_cpu() must make a call to cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(), a new subset of cpuset_cpus_allowed(), that will not block. (name change - per Oleg's suggestion) Calls are made to cpuset_lock() and cpuset_unlock() in migration_call() to set the cpuset mutex during the whole migrate_live_tasks() and migrate_dead_tasks() procedure. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [pj@sgi.com: Fix indentation and spacing] Signed-off-by: -
Paul Menage authored
Cause writes to cpuset "cpus" file to update cpus_allowed for member tasks: - collect batches of tasks under tasklist_lock and then call set_cpus_allowed() on them outside the lock (since this can sleep). - add a simple generic priority heap type to allow efficient collection of batches of tasks to be processed without duplicating or missing any tasks in subsequent batches. - make "cpus" file update a no-op if the mask hasn't changed - fix race between update_cpumask() and sched_setaffinity() by making sched_setaffinity() post-check that it's not running on any cpus outside cpuset_cpus_allowed(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Decrustify the kernel/cpuset.c 'cpus' and 'mems' updating code. Other than subtle improvements in the consistency of identifying white space at the beginning and end of passed in masks, this doesn't make any visible difference in behaviour. But it's one or two hundred kernel text bytes smaller, and easier to understand. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fix] Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Add a new per-cpuset flag called 'sched_load_balance'. When enabled in a cpuset (the default value) it tells the kernel scheduler that the scheduler should provide the normal load balancing on the CPUs in that cpuset, sometimes moving tasks from one CPU to a second CPU if the second CPU is less loaded and if that task is allowed to run there. When disabled (write "0" to the file) then it tells the kernel scheduler that load balancing is not required for the CPUs in that cpuset. Now even if this flag is disabled for some cpuset, the kernel may still have to load balance some or all the CPUs in that cpuset, if some overlapping cpuset has its sched_load_balance flag enabled. If there are some CPUs that are not in any cpuset whose sched_load_balance flag is enabled, the kernel scheduler will not load balance tasks to those CPUs. Moreover the kernel will partition the 'sched domains' (non-overlapping sets of CPUs over which load balancing is attempted) into the finest granularity partition that it can find, while still keeping any two CPUs that are in the same shed_load_balance enabled cpuset in the same element of the partition. This serves two purposes: 1) It provides a mechanism for real time isolation of some CPUs, and 2) it can be used to improve performance on systems with many CPUs by supporting configurations in which load balancing is not done across all CPUs at once, but rather only done in several smaller disjoint sets of CPUs. This mechanism replaces the earlier overloading of the per-cpuset flag 'cpu_exclusive', which overloading was removed in an earlier patch: cpuset-remove-sched-domain-hooks-from-cpusets See further the Documentation and comments in the code itself. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't be weird] Signed-off-by: -
Paul Menage authored
Remove the filesystem support logic from the cpusets system and makes cpusets a cgroup subsystem The "cpuset" filesystem becomes a dummy filesystem; attempts to mount it get passed through to the cgroup filesystem with the appropriate options to emulate the old cpuset filesystem behaviour. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
The cpuset code to present a list of tasks using a cpuset to user space could write to an array that it had kmalloc'd, after a kmalloc request of zero size. The problem was that the code didn't check for writes past the allocated end of the array until -after- the first write. This is a race condition that is likely rare -- it would only show up if a cpuset went from being empty to having a task in it, during the brief time between the allocation and the first write. Prior to roughly 2.6.22 kernels, this was also a benign problem, because a zero kmalloc returned a few usable bytes anyway, and no harm was done with the bogus write. With the 2.6.22 kernel changes to make issue a warning if code tries to write to the location returned from a zero size allocation, this problem is no longer benign. This cpuset code would occassionally trigger that warning. The fix is trivial -- check before storing into the array, not after, whether the array is big enough to hold the store. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 18 Oct, 2007 1 commit
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Daniel Walker authored
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Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 17 Oct, 2007 1 commit
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David Rientjes authored
Instead of testing for overlap in the memory nodes of the the nearest exclusive ancestor of both current and the candidate task, it is better to simply test for intersection between the task's mems_allowed in their task descriptors. This does not require taking callback_mutex since it is only used as a hint in the badness scoring. Tasks that do not have an intersection in their mems_allowed with the current task are not explicitly restricted from being OOM killed because it is quite possible that the candidate task has allocated memory there before and has since changed its mems_allowed. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by:
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- 16 Oct, 2007 2 commits
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Paul Jackson authored
Remove the cpuset hooks that defined sched domains depending on the setting of the 'cpu_exclusive' flag. The cpu_exclusive flag can only be set on a child if it is set on the parent. This made that flag painfully unsuitable for use as a flag defining a partitioning of a system. It was entirely unobvious to a cpuset user what partitioning of sched domains they would be causing when they set that one cpu_exclusive bit on one cpuset, because it depended on what CPUs were in the remainder of that cpusets siblings and child cpusets, after subtracting out other cpu_exclusive cpusets. Furthermore, there was no way on production systems to query the result. Using the cpu_exclusive flag for this was simply wrong from the get go. Fortunately, it was sufficiently borked that so far as I know, almost no successful use has been made of this. One real time group did use it to affectively isolate CPUs from any load balancing efforts. They are willing to adapt to alternative mechanisms for this, such as someway to manipulate the list of isolated CPUs on a running system. They can do without this present cpu_exclusive based mechanism while we develop an alternative. There is a real risk, to the best of my understanding, of users accidentally setting up a partitioned scheduler domains, inhibiting desired load balancing across all their CPUs, due to the nonobvious (from the cpuset perspective) side affects of the cpu_exclusive flag. Furthermore, since there was no way on a running system to see what one was doing with sched domains, this change will be invisible to any using code. Unless they have real insight to the scheduler load balancing choices, they will be unable to detect that this change has been made in the kernel's behaviour. Initial discussion on lkml of this patch has generated much comment. My (probably controversial) take on that discussion is that it has reached a rough concensus that the current cpuset cpu_exclusive mechanism for defining sched domains is borked. There is no concensus on the replacement. But since we can remove this mechanism, and since its continued presence risks causing unwanted partitioning of the schedulers load balancing, we should remove it while we can, as we proceed to work the replacement scheduler domain mechanisms. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations. When something like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation. This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a new MIGRATE_TYPE. The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be reclaimed on demand, but not moved. i.e. they can be migrated by deleting them and re-reading the information from elsewhere. Signed-off-by:
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