Sysbench thinks SD_BALANCE_WAKE is too agressive and kbuild doesn't
really mind too much, SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE picks up most of the
slack.

On a dual socket, quad core, dual thread nehalem system:

sysbench (--num_threads=16):

 SD_BALANCE_WAKE-: 13982 tx/s
 SD_BALANCE_WAKE+: 15688 tx/s

kbuild (-j16):

 SD_BALANCE_WAKE-: 47.648295846  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.312% )
 SD_BALANCE_WAKE+: 47.608607360  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.026% )

(same within noise)
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

For consistencies sake, rename the argument (again).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Clean up the code a little.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We don't need to call update_shares() for each domain we iterate,
just got the largets one.

However, we should call it before wake_affine() as well, so that
that can use up-to-date values too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Silly percpu bits don't respect static..
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>

Add back FAIR_SLEEPERS and GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS.

FAIR_SLEEPERS is the old logic: credit sleepers with their sleep time.

GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS dampens this a bit: 50% of their sleep time gets
credited.

The hope here is to still give the benefits of fair-sleepers logic
(quick wakeups, etc.) while not allow them to have 100% of their
sleep time as if they were running.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

And turn it on for NUMA and MC domains. This improves
locality in balancing decisions by keeping up to
capacity amount of tasks local before looking for idle
CPUs. (and twice the capacity if SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE
is set.)
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Currently we use overlap to weaken the SYNC hint, but allow it to
set the hint as well.

 echo NO_SYNC_WAKEUP > /debug/sched_features
 echo SYNC_MORE > /debug/sched_features

preserves pipe-test behaviour without using the WF_SYNC hint.

Worth playing with on more workloads...
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The sync argument rename to introduce WF_* broke stuff by missing a
local alias for an argument in __wake_up_common, fix it by using
the more descriptive wake_flags name.

This restores WF_SYNC propagation, which fixes wake_affine()
behaviour, which fixes pipe-test.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Avoid the cache buddies from biasing the time distribution away
from fork()ers. Normally the next buddy will be the preferred
scheduling target, but this makes fork()s prefer to run the new
child, whereas we prefer to run the parent, since that will
generate more work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

In order to extend the functions to have more than 1 flag (sync),
rename the argument to flags, and explicitly define a WF_ space for
individual flags.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

In order to be able to rename the sync argument, we need to rename
the current flag argument.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

I suspect a feed-back loop between cpuidle and the aperf/mperf
cpu_power bits, where when we have idle C-states lower the ratio,
which leads to lower cpu_power and then less load, which generates
more idle time, etc..

Put in a knob to disable it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

APERF/MPERF support for cpu_power.

APERF/MPERF is arch defined to be a relative scale of work capacity
per logical cpu, this is assumed to include SMT and Turbo mode.

APERF/MPERF are specified to both reset to 0 when either counter
wraps, which is highly inconvenient, since that'll give a blimp
when that happens. The manual specifies writing 0 to the counters
after each read, but that's 1) too expensive, and 2) destroys the
possibility of sharing these counters with other users, so we live
with the blimp - the other existing user does too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Move some of the aperf/mperf code out from the cpufreq driver
thingy so that other people can enjoy it too.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Move the APERFMPERF capacility into a X86_FEATURE flag so that it
can be used outside of the acpi cpufreq driver.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Provide an ach specific hook for cpufreq based scaling of
cpu_power.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
[ego@in.ibm.com: spotting bugs]
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

If we're looking to place a new task, we might as well find the
idlest position _now_, not 1 tick ago.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Make the idle balancer more agressive, to improve a
x264 encoding workload provided by Jason Garrett-Glaser:

 NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 252.82 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 250.69 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 245.76 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

 NO_NEXT_BUDDY LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 344.44 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 346.66 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 352.59 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

 NO_NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 425.75 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 425.45 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 422.49 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

Peter pointed out that this is better done via newidle_idx,
not via LB_BIAS, newidle balancing should look for where
there is load _now_, not where there was load 2 ticks ago.

Worst-case latencies are improved as well as no buddies
means less vruntime spread. (as per prior lkml discussions)

This change improves kbuild-peak parallelism as well.
Reported-by: Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1253011667.9128.16.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

CPU level should have WAKE_AFFINE, whereas ALLNODES is dubious.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

When merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self() we lost
the use of wake_idx, restore that and set them to 0 to make wake
balancing more aggressive.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

While merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self() I made
a mistake that leads to testing the wrong task affinty.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

for_each_domain() uses RCU to serialize the sched_domains, except
it doesn't actually use rcu_read_lock() and instead relies on
disabling preemption -> FAIL.

XXX: audit other sched_domain code.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

One of the problems of power-saving balancing is that under certain
scenarios it is too slow and allows tons of real work to pile up.

Avoid this by ignoring the powersave stuff when there's real work
to be done.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The problem with wake_idle() is that is doesn't respect things like
cpu_power, which means it doesn't deal well with SMT nor the recent
RT interaction.

To cure this, it needs to do what sched_balance_self() does, which
leads to the possibility of merging select_task_rq_fair() and
sched_balance_self().

Modify sched_balance_self() to:

  - update_shares() when walking up the domain tree,
    (it only called it for the top domain, but it should
     have done this anyway), which allows us to remove
    this ugly bit from try_to_wake_up().

  - do wake_affine() on the smallest domain that contains
    both this (the waking) and the prev (the wakee) cpu for
    WAKE invocations.

Then use the top-down balance steps it had to replace wake_idle().

This leads to the dissapearance of SD_WAKE_BALANCE and
SD_WAKE_IDLE_FAR, with SD_WAKE_IDLE replaced with SD_BALANCE_WAKE.

SD_WAKE_AFFINE needs SD_BALANCE_WAKE to be effective.

Touch all topology bits to replace the old with new SD flags --
platforms might need re-tuning, enabling SD_BALANCE_WAKE
conditionally on a NUMA distance seems like a good additional
feature, magny-core and small nehalem systems would want this
enabled, systems with slow interconnects would not.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We're going to want to drop rq->lock in try_to_wake_up() for a
longer period of time, however we also want to deal with concurrent
waking of the same task, which is currently handled by holding
rq->lock.

So introduce a new TASK state, namely TASK_WAKING, which indicates
someone is already waking the task (other wakers will fail p->state
& state).

We also keep preemption disabled over the whole ttwu().
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Rather ugly patch to fully place the sched_balance_self() code
inside the fair class.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Move the sched_balance_self() code into sched_fair.c

This facilitates the merger of sched_balance_self() and
sched_fair::select_task_rq().
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

In preparation to other code movement, move weighted_cpuload(),
source_load() and target_load() before the class includes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add text...
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add a NEXT_BUDDY feature flag to aid in debugging.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

It consists of two conditions, split them out in separate toggles
so we can test them independently.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge branch 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, e820: Guard against array overflowed in __e820_add_region()
  x86, setup: remove obsolete pre-Kconfig CONFIG_VIDEO_ variables

Merge branch 'x86-percpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-percpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, percpu: Collect hot percpu variables into one cacheline
  x86, percpu: Fix DECLARE/DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED()
  x86, percpu: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for cacheable accesses

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, highmem_32.c: Clean up comment
  x86, pgtable.h: Clean up types
  x86: Clean up dump_pagetable()

Merge branch 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Simplify the Makefile in a minor way through use of cc-ifversion

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86-64: move clts into batch cpu state updates when preloading fpu
  x86-64: move unlazy_fpu() into lazy cpu state part of context switch
  x86-32: make sure clts is batched during context switch
  x86: split out core __math_state_restore

Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Decrease the level of some NUMA messages to KERN_DEBUG

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (22 commits)
  x86: Fix code patching for paravirt-alternatives on 486
  x86, msr: change msr-reg.o to obj-y, and export its symbols
  x86: Use hard_smp_processor_id() to get apic id for AMD K8 cpus
  x86, sched: Workaround broken sched domain creation for AMD Magny-Cours
  x86, mcheck: Use correct cpumask for shared bank4
  x86, cacheinfo: Fixup L3 cache information for AMD multi-node processors
  x86: Fix CPU llc_shared_map information for AMD Magny-Cours
  x86, msr: Fix msr-reg.S compilation with gas 2.16.1, on 32-bit too
  x86: Move kernel_fpu_using to irq_fpu_usable in asm/i387.h
  x86, msr: fix msr-reg.S compilation with gas 2.16.1
  x86, msr: Export the register-setting MSR functions via /dev/*/msr
  x86, msr: Create _on_cpu helpers for {rw,wr}msr_safe_regs()
  x86, msr: Have the _safe MSR functions return -EIO, not -EFAULT
  x86, msr: CFI annotations, cleanups for msr-reg.S
  x86, asm: Make _ASM_EXTABLE() usable from assembly code
  x86, asm: Add 32-bit versions of the combined CFI macros
  x86, AMD: Disable wrongly set X86_FEATURE_LAHF_LM CPUID bit
  x86, msr: Rewrite AMD rd/wrmsr variants
  x86, msr: Add rd/wrmsr interfaces with preset registers
  x86: add specific support for Intel Atom architecture
  ...