On Friday 17 March 2006 20:06, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Con Kolivas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thinking some more on this I wonder if SCHED_BATCH isn't a strong
> > enough scheduling hint if it's not suitable for such an application.
> > Ingo do you think we could make SCHED_BATCH tasks always wake up on
> > the expired array?
>
> yep, i think that's a good idea. In the worst case the starvation
> timeout should kick in.
Ok here's a patch that does exactly that. Without an "inline" hint, gcc 4.1.0
chooses not to inline this function. I can't say I have a strong opinion
about whether it should be inlined or not (93 bytes larger inlined), so I've
decided not to given the current trend.
Cheers,
Con
---
To increase the strength of SCHED_BATCH as a scheduling hint we can activate
batch tasks on the expired array since by definition they are latency
insensitive tasks.
Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
kernel/sched.c | 9 ++++++---
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm1/include/linux/sched.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm1.orig/include/linux/sched.h 2006-03-13 20:12:22.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm1/include/linux/sched.h 2006-03-17 23:08:31.000000000 +1100
@@ -485,6 +485,7 @@ struct signal_struct {
#define MAX_PRIO (MAX_RT_PRIO + 40)
#define rt_task(p) (unlikely((p)->prio < MAX_RT_PRIO))
+#define batch_task(p) (unlikely((p)->policy == SCHED_BATCH))
/*
* Some day this will be a full-fledged user tracking system..
Index: linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm1/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm1.orig/kernel/sched.c 2006-03-13 20:12:15.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc6-mm1/kernel/sched.c 2006-03-17 23:08:12.000000000 +1100
@@ -737,9 +737,12 @@ static inline void dec_nr_running(task_t
/*
* __activate_task - move a task to the runqueue.
*/
-static inline void __activate_task(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq)
+static void __activate_task(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq)
{
- enqueue_task(p, rq->active);
+ if (batch_task(p))
+ enqueue_task(p, rq->expired);
+ else
+ enqueue_task(p, rq->active);
inc_nr_running(p, rq);
}
@@ -758,7 +761,7 @@ static int recalc_task_prio(task_t *p, u
unsigned long long __sleep_time = now - p->timestamp;
unsigned long sleep_time;
- if (unlikely(p->policy == SCHED_BATCH))
+ if (batch_task(p))
sleep_time = 0;
else {
if (__sleep_time > NS_MAX_SLEEP_AVG)
-
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