History log of /linux-master/kernel/sched/stats.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 52b33d87 26-Sep-2022 Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>

sched/psi: Use task->psi_flags to clear in CPU migration

The commit d583d360a620 ("psi: Fix psi state corruption when schedule()
races with cgroup move") fixed a race problem by making cgroup_move_task()
use task->psi_flags instead of looking at the scheduler state.

We can extend task->psi_flags usage to CPU migration, which should be
a minor optimization for performance and code simplicity.

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926081931.45420-1-zhouchengming@bytedance.com


# 52b1364b 25-Aug-2022 Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>

sched/psi: Add PSI_IRQ to track IRQ/SOFTIRQ pressure

Now PSI already tracked workload pressure stall information for
CPU, memory and IO. Apart from these, IRQ/SOFTIRQ could have
obvious impact on some workload productivity, such as web service
workload.

When CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, we can get IRQ/SOFTIRQ delta time
from update_rq_clock_task(), in which we can record that delta
to CPU curr task's cgroups as PSI_IRQ_FULL status.

Note we don't use PSI_IRQ_SOME since IRQ/SOFTIRQ always happen in
the current task on the CPU, make nothing productive could run
even if it were runnable, so we only use PSI_IRQ_FULL.

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220825164111.29534-8-zhouchengming@bytedance.com


# d79ddb06 25-Aug-2022 Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>

sched/psi: Move private helpers to sched/stats.h

This patch move psi_task_change/psi_task_switch declarations out of
PSI public header, since they are only needed for implementing the
PSI stats tracking in sched/stats.h

psi_task_switch is obvious, psi_task_change can't be public helper
since it doesn't check psi_disabled static key. And there is no
any user now, so put it in sched/stats.h too.

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220825164111.29534-5-zhouchengming@bytedance.com


# 4ff8f2ca 22-Feb-2022 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

sched/headers: Reorganize, clean up and optimize kernel/sched/sched.h dependencies

Remove all headers, except the ones required to make this header
build standalone.

Also include stats.h in sched.h explicitly - dependencies already
require this.

Summary of the build speedup gained through the last ~15 scheduler build &
header dependency patches:

Cumulative scheduler (kernel/sched/) build time speedup on a
Linux distribution's config, which enables all scheduler features,
compared to the vanilla kernel:

_____________________________________________________________________________
|
| Vanilla kernel (v5.13-rc7):
|_____________________________________________________________________________
|
| Performance counter stats for 'make -j96 kernel/sched/' (3 runs):
|
| 126,975,564,374 instructions # 1.45 insn per cycle ( +- 0.00% )
| 87,637,847,671 cycles # 3.959 GHz ( +- 0.30% )
| 22,136.96 msec cpu-clock # 7.499 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.29% )
|
| 2.9520 +- 0.0169 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.57% )
|_____________________________________________________________________________
|
| Patched kernel:
|_____________________________________________________________________________
|
| Performance counter stats for 'make -j96 kernel/sched/' (3 runs):
|
| 50,420,496,914 instructions # 1.47 insn per cycle ( +- 0.00% )
| 34,234,322,038 cycles # 3.946 GHz ( +- 0.31% )
| 8,675.81 msec cpu-clock # 3.053 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.45% )
|
| 2.8420 +- 0.0181 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.64% )
|_____________________________________________________________________________

Summary:

- CPU time used to build the scheduler dropped by -60.9%, a reduction
from 22.1 clock-seconds to 8.7 clock-seconds.

- Wall-clock time to build the scheduler dropped by -3.9%, a reduction
from 2.95 seconds to 2.84 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>


# b9e9c6ca 13-Feb-2022 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

sched/headers: Standardize kernel/sched/sched.h header dependencies

kernel/sched/sched.h is a weird mix of ad-hoc headers included
in the middle of the header.

Two of them rely on being included in the middle of kernel/sched/sched.h,
due to definitions they require:

- "stat.h" needs the rq definitions.
- "autogroup.h" needs the task_group definition.

Move the inclusion of these two files out of kernel/sched/sched.h, and
include them in all files that require them.

Move of the rest of the header dependencies to the top of the
kernel/sched/sched.h file.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>


# d90a2f16 20-Nov-2021 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

sched/headers: Add header guard to kernel/sched/stats.h and kernel/sched/autogroup.h

Protect against multiple inclusion.

Also include "sched.h" in "stat.h", as it relies on it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>


# cb0e52b7 10-Nov-2021 Brian Chen <brianchen118@gmail.com>

psi: Fix PSI_MEM_FULL state when tasks are in memstall and doing reclaim

We've noticed cases where tasks in a cgroup are stalled on memory but
there is little memory FULL pressure since tasks stay on the runqueue
in reclaim.

A simple example involves a single threaded program that keeps leaking
and touching large amounts of memory. It runs in a cgroup with swap
enabled, memory.high set at 10M and cpu.max ratio set at 5%. Though
there is significant CPU pressure and memory SOME, there is barely any
memory FULL since the task enters reclaim and stays on the runqueue.
However, this memory-bound task is effectively stalled on memory and
we expect memory FULL to match memory SOME in this scenario.

The code is confused about memstall && running, thinking there is a
stalled task and a productive task when there's only one task: a
reclaimer that's counted as both. To fix this, we redefine the
condition for PSI_MEM_FULL to check that all running tasks are in an
active memstall instead of checking that there are no running tasks.

case PSI_MEM_FULL:
- return unlikely(tasks[NR_MEMSTALL] && !tasks[NR_RUNNING]);
+ return unlikely(tasks[NR_MEMSTALL] &&
+ tasks[NR_RUNNING] == tasks[NR_MEMSTALL_RUNNING]);

This will capture reclaimers. It will also capture tasks that called
psi_memstall_enter() and are about to sleep, but this should be
negligible noise.

Signed-off-by: Brian Chen <brianchen118@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110213312.310243-1-brianchen118@gmail.com


# 60f2415e 05-Sep-2021 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>

sched: Make schedstats helpers independent of fair sched class

The original prototype of the schedstats helpers are

update_stats_wait_*(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)

The cfs_rq in these helpers is used to get the rq_clock, and the se is
used to get the struct sched_statistics and the struct task_struct. In
order to make these helpers available by all sched classes, we can pass
the rq, sched_statistics and task_struct directly.

Then the new helpers are

update_stats_wait_*(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p,
struct sched_statistics *stats)

which are independent of fair sched class.

To avoid vmlinux growing too large or introducing ovehead when
!schedstat_enabled(), some new helpers after schedstat_enabled() are also
introduced, Suggested by Mel. These helpers are in sched/stats.c,

__update_stats_wait_*(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p,
struct sched_statistics *stats)

The size of vmlinux as follows,
Before After
Size of vmlinux 826308552 826304640
The size is a litte smaller as some functions are not inlined again after
the change.

I also compared the sched performance with 'perf bench sched pipe',
suggested by Mel. The result as followsi (in usecs/op),
Before After
kernel.sched_schedstats=0 5.2~5.4 5.2~5.4
kernel.sched_schedstats=1 5.3~5.5 5.3~5.5

[These data is a little difference with the prev version, that is
because my old test machine is destroyed so I have to use a new
different test machine.]
Almost no difference.

No functional change.

[lkp@intel.com: reported build failure in prev version]

Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210905143547.4668-4-laoar.shao@gmail.com


# ceeadb83 05-Sep-2021 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>

sched: Make struct sched_statistics independent of fair sched class

If we want to use the schedstats facility to trace other sched classes, we
should make it independent of fair sched class. The struct sched_statistics
is the schedular statistics of a task_struct or a task_group. So we can
move it into struct task_struct and struct task_group to achieve the goal.

After the patch, schestats are orgnized as follows,

struct task_struct {
...
struct sched_entity se;
struct sched_rt_entity rt;
struct sched_dl_entity dl;
...
struct sched_statistics stats;
...
};

Regarding the task group, schedstats is only supported for fair group
sched, and a new struct sched_entity_stats is introduced, suggested by
Peter -

struct sched_entity_stats {
struct sched_entity se;
struct sched_statistics stats;
} __no_randomize_layout;

Then with the se in a task_group, we can easily get the stats.

The sched_statistics members may be frequently modified when schedstats is
enabled, in order to avoid impacting on random data which may in the same
cacheline with them, the struct sched_statistics is defined as cacheline
aligned.

As this patch changes the core struct of scheduler, so I verified the
performance it may impact on the scheduler with 'perf bench sched
pipe', suggested by Mel. Below is the result, in which all the values
are in usecs/op.
Before After
kernel.sched_schedstats=0 5.2~5.4 5.2~5.4
kernel.sched_schedstats=1 5.3~5.5 5.3~5.5
[These data is a little difference with the earlier version, that is
because my old test machine is destroyed so I have to use a new
different test machine.]

Almost no impact on the sched performance.

No functional change.

[lkp@intel.com: reported build failure in earlier version]

Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210905143547.4668-3-laoar.shao@gmail.com


# b03fbd4f 11-Jun-2021 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

sched: Introduce task_is_running()

Replace a bunch of 'p->state == TASK_RUNNING' with a new helper:
task_is_running(p).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.222401495@infradead.org


# 90a0ff4e 12-May-2021 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

sched,stats: Further simplify sched_info

There's no point doing delta==0 updates.

Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>


# c5895d3f 04-May-2021 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

sched: Simplify sched_info_on()

The situation around sched_info is somewhat complicated, it is used by
sched_stats and delayacct and, indirectly, kvm.

If SCHEDSTATS=Y (but disabled by default) sched_info_on() is
unconditionally true -- this is the case for all distro kernel configs
I checked.

If for some reason SCHEDSTATS=N, but TASK_DELAY_ACCT=Y, then
sched_info_on() can return false when delayacct is disabled,
presumably because there would be no other users left; except kvm is.

Instead of complicating matters further by accurately accounting
sched_stat and kvm state, simply unconditionally enable when
SCHED_INFO=Y, matching the common distro case.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505111525.121458839@infradead.org


# 4e29fb70 04-May-2021 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

sched: Rename sched_info_{queued,dequeued}

For consistency, rename {queued,dequeued} to {enqueue,dequeue}.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505111525.061402904@infradead.org


# 4117cebf 02-Mar-2021 Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>

psi: Optimize task switch inside shared cgroups

The commit 36b238d57172 ("psi: Optimize switching tasks inside shared
cgroups") only update cgroups whose state actually changes during a
task switch only in task preempt case, not in task sleep case.

We actually don't need to clear and set TSK_ONCPU state for common cgroups
of next and prev task in sleep case, that can save many psi_group_change
especially when most activity comes from one leaf cgroup.

sleep before:
psi_dequeue()
while ((group = iterate_groups(prev))) # all ancestors
psi_group_change(prev, .clear=TSK_RUNNING|TSK_ONCPU)
psi_task_switch()
while ((group = iterate_groups(next))) # all ancestors
psi_group_change(next, .set=TSK_ONCPU)

sleep after:
psi_dequeue()
nop
psi_task_switch()
while ((group = iterate_groups(next))) # until (prev & next)
psi_group_change(next, .set=TSK_ONCPU)
while ((group = iterate_groups(prev))) # all ancestors
psi_group_change(prev, .clear=common?TSK_RUNNING:TSK_RUNNING|TSK_ONCPU)

When a voluntary sleep switches to another task, we remove one call of
psi_group_change() for every common cgroup ancestor of the two tasks.

Co-developed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210303034659.91735-5-zhouchengming@bytedance.com


# 7fae6c81 02-Mar-2021 Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>

psi: Use ONCPU state tracking machinery to detect reclaim

Move the reclaim detection from the timer tick to the task state
tracking machinery using the recently added ONCPU state. And we
also add task psi_flags changes checking in the psi_task_switch()
optimization to update the parents properly.

In terms of performance and cost, this ONCPU task state tracking
is not cheaper than previous timer tick in aggregate. But the code is
simpler and shorter this way, so it's a maintainability win. And
Johannes did some testing with perf bench, the performace and cost
changes would be acceptable for real workloads.

Thanks to Johannes Weiner for pointing out the psi_task_switch()
optimization things and the clearer changelog.

Co-developed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210303034659.91735-3-zhouchengming@bytedance.com


# 1066d1b6 16-Mar-2020 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>

psi: Move PF_MEMSTALL out of task->flags

The task->flags is a 32-bits flag, in which 31 bits have already been
consumed. So it is hardly to introduce other new per process flag.
Currently there're still enough spaces in the bit-field section of
task_struct, so we can define the memstall state as a single bit in
task_struct instead.
This patch also removes an out-of-date comment pointed by Matthew.

Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1584408485-1921-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com


# 36b238d5 16-Mar-2020 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

psi: Optimize switching tasks inside shared cgroups

When switching tasks running on a CPU, the psi state of a cgroup
containing both of these tasks does not change. Right now, we don't
exploit that, and can perform many unnecessary state changes in nested
hierarchies, especially when most activity comes from one leaf cgroup.

This patch implements an optimization where we only update cgroups
whose state actually changes during a task switch. These are all
cgroups that contain one task but not the other, up to the first
shared ancestor. When both tasks are in the same group, we don't need
to update anything at all.

We can identify the first shared ancestor by walking the groups of the
incoming task until we see TSK_ONCPU set on the local CPU; that's the
first group that also contains the outgoing task.

The new psi_task_switch() is similar to psi_task_change(). To allow
code reuse, move the task flag maintenance code into a new function
and the poll/avg worker wakeups into the shared psi_group_change().

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200316191333.115523-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org


# b05e75d6 16-Mar-2020 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

psi: Fix cpu.pressure for cpu.max and competing cgroups

For simplicity, cpu pressure is defined as having more than one
runnable task on a given CPU. This works on the system-level, but it
has limitations in a cgrouped reality: When cpu.max is in use, it
doesn't capture the time in which a task is not executing on the CPU
due to throttling. Likewise, it doesn't capture the time in which a
competing cgroup is occupying the CPU - meaning it only reflects
cgroup-internal competitive pressure, not outside pressure.

Enable tracking of currently executing tasks, and then change the
definition of cpu pressure in a cgroup from

NR_RUNNING > 1

to

NR_RUNNING > ON_CPU

which will capture the effects of cpu.max as well as competition from
outside the cgroup.

After this patch, a cgroup running `stress -c 1` with a cpu.max
setting of 5000 10000 shows ~50% continuous CPU pressure.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200316191333.115523-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org


# 65d74e91 04-Jul-2019 Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>

sched/stats: Fix unlikely() use of sched_info_on()

sched_info_on() is called with unlikely hint, however, the test
is to be a constant(1) on which compiler will do nothing when
make defconfig, so remove the hint.

Also, fix a lack of {}.

Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: up2wing@gmail.com
Cc: wang.liang82@zte.com.cn
Cc: xue.zhihong@zte.com.cn
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1562301307-43002-1-git-send-email-wang.yi59@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# e0c27447 30-Nov-2018 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

psi: make disabling/enabling easier for vendor kernels

Mel Gorman reports a hackbench regression with psi that would prohibit
shipping the suse kernel with it default-enabled, but he'd still like
users to be able to opt in at little to no cost to others.

With the current combination of CONFIG_PSI and the psi_disabled bool set
from the commandline, this is a challenge. Do the following things to
make it easier:

1. Add a config option CONFIG_PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED that allows distros
to enable CONFIG_PSI in their kernel but leave the feature disabled
unless a user requests it at boot-time.

To avoid double negatives, rename psi_disabled= to psi=.

2. Make psi_disabled a static branch to eliminate any branch costs
when the feature is disabled.

In terms of numbers before and after this patch, Mel says:

: The following is a comparision using CONFIG_PSI=n as a baseline against
: your patch and a vanilla kernel
:
: 4.20.0-rc4 4.20.0-rc4 4.20.0-rc4
: kconfigdisable-v1r1 vanilla psidisable-v1r1
: Amean 1 1.3100 ( 0.00%) 1.3923 ( -6.28%) 1.3427 ( -2.49%)
: Amean 3 3.8860 ( 0.00%) 4.1230 * -6.10%* 3.8860 ( -0.00%)
: Amean 5 6.8847 ( 0.00%) 8.0390 * -16.77%* 6.7727 ( 1.63%)
: Amean 7 9.9310 ( 0.00%) 10.8367 * -9.12%* 9.9910 ( -0.60%)
: Amean 12 16.6577 ( 0.00%) 18.2363 * -9.48%* 17.1083 ( -2.71%)
: Amean 18 26.5133 ( 0.00%) 27.8833 * -5.17%* 25.7663 ( 2.82%)
: Amean 24 34.3003 ( 0.00%) 34.6830 ( -1.12%) 32.0450 ( 6.58%)
: Amean 30 40.0063 ( 0.00%) 40.5800 ( -1.43%) 41.5087 ( -3.76%)
: Amean 32 40.1407 ( 0.00%) 41.2273 ( -2.71%) 39.9417 ( 0.50%)
:
: It's showing that the vanilla kernel takes a hit (as the bisection
: indicated it would) and that disabling PSI by default is reasonably
: close in terms of performance for this particular workload on this
: particular machine so;

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127165329.GA29728@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# eb414681 26-Oct-2018 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO

When systems are overcommitted and resources become contended, it's hard
to tell exactly the impact this has on workload productivity, or how close
the system is to lockups and OOM kills. In particular, when machines work
multiple jobs concurrently, the impact of overcommit in terms of latency
and throughput on the individual job can be enormous.

In order to maximize hardware utilization without sacrificing individual
job health or risk complete machine lockups, this patch implements a way
to quantify resource pressure in the system.

A kernel built with CONFIG_PSI=y creates files in /proc/pressure/ that
expose the percentage of time the system is stalled on CPU, memory, or IO,
respectively. Stall states are aggregate versions of the per-task delay
accounting delays:

cpu: some tasks are runnable but not executing on a CPU
memory: tasks are reclaiming, or waiting for swapin or thrashing cache
io: tasks are waiting for io completions

These percentages of walltime can be thought of as pressure percentages,
and they give a general sense of system health and productivity loss
incurred by resource overcommit. They can also indicate when the system
is approaching lockup scenarios and OOMs.

To do this, psi keeps track of the task states associated with each CPU
and samples the time they spend in stall states. Every 2 seconds, the
samples are averaged across CPUs - weighted by the CPUs' non-idle time to
eliminate artifacts from unused CPUs - and translated into percentages of
walltime. A running average of those percentages is maintained over 10s,
1m, and 5m periods (similar to the loadaverage).

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: doc fixlet, per Randy]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828205625.GA14030@cmpxchg.org
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: code optimization]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907175015.GA8479@cmpxchg.org
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: rename psi_clock() to psi_update_work(), per Peter]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907145404.GB11088@cmpxchg.org
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix build]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180913014222.GA2370@cmpxchg.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-9-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@fb.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 97fb7a0a 03-Mar-2018 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

sched: Clean up and harmonize the coding style of the scheduler code base

A good number of small style inconsistencies have accumulated
in the scheduler core, so do a pass over them to harmonize
all these details:

- fix speling in comments,

- use curly braces for multi-line statements,

- remove unnecessary parentheses from integer literals,

- capitalize consistently,

- remove stray newlines,

- add comments where necessary,

- remove invalid/unnecessary comments,

- align structure definitions and other data types vertically,

- add missing newlines for increased readability,

- fix vertical tabulation where it's misaligned,

- harmonize preprocessor conditional block labeling
and vertical alignment,

- remove line-breaks where they uglify the code,

- add newline after local variable definitions,

No change in functionality:

md5:
1191fa0a890cfa8132156d2959d7e9e2 built-in.o.before.asm
1191fa0a890cfa8132156d2959d7e9e2 built-in.o.after.asm

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 2ed41a55 23-Jan-2018 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

sched/core: Optimize update_stats_*()

These functions are already gated by schedstats_enabled(), there is no
point in then issuing another static_branch for every individual
update in them.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# b85c8b71 16-Jan-2018 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

sched/core: Optimize ttwu_stat()

The whole of ttwu_stat() is guarded by a single schedstat_enabled(),
there is absolutely no point in then issuing another static_branch for
every single schedstat_inc() in there.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 1050b27c 05-Feb-2017 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

sched/headers: Move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> and <linux/cputime.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h>

Move cputime related functionality out of <linux/sched.h>, as most code
that includes <linux/sched.h> does not use that functionality.

Move data types that are not included in task_struct directly to
the signal definitions, into <linux/sched/signal.h>.

Also merge the (small) existing <linux/cputime.h> header into <linux/sched/cputime.h>.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# ebd7e7fc 30-Jan-2017 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

timers/posix-timers: Convert internals to use nsecs

Use the new nsec based cputime accessors as part of the whole cputime
conversion from cputime_t to nsecs.

Also convert posix-cpu-timers to use nsec based internal counters to
simplify it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-19-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# b18b6a9c 20-Jan-2017 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

timers: Omit POSIX timer stuff from task_struct when disabled

When CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS is disabled, it is preferable to remove related
structures from struct task_struct and struct signal_struct as they
won't contain anything useful and shouldn't be relied upon by mistake.
Code still referencing those structures is also disabled here.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 20e1d486 16-Jun-2016 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

sched/debug: Rename 'schedstat_val()' -> 'schedstat_val_or_zero()'

The schedstat_val() macro's behavior is kind of surprising: when
schedstat is runtime disabled, it returns zero. Rename it to
schedstat_val_or_zero().

There's also a need for a similar macro which doesn't have the 'if
(schedstat_enable())' check, to avoid doing the check twice. Create a
new 'schedstat_val()' macro for that.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3bb1d2367d041fee333b0dde17171e709395b675.1466184592.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# ae92882e 16-Jun-2016 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

sched/debug: Clean up schedstat macros

The schedstat_*() macros are inconsistent: most of them take a pointer
and a field which the macro combines, whereas schedstat_set() takes the
already combined ptr->field.

The already combined ptr->field argument is actually more intuitive and
easier to use, and there's no reason to require the user to split the
variable up, so convert the macros to use the combined argument.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54953ca25bb579f3a5946432dee409b0e05222c6.1466184592.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 9c572591 03-Jun-2016 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

sched/debug: Fix /proc/sched_debug regression

Commit:

cb2517653fcc ("sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default")

... introduced a bug when CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is enabled and the
runtime tunable is disabled (which is the default).

The wait-time, sum-exec, and sum-sleep fields are missing from the
/proc/sched_debug file in the runnable_tasks section.

Fix it with a new schedstat_val() macro which returns the field value
when schedstats is enabled and zero otherwise. The macro works with
both SCHEDSTATS and !SCHEDSTATS. I put the macro in stats.h since it
might end up being useful in other places.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: cb2517653fcc ("sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bcda7c2790cf2ccbe586a28c02dd7b6fe7749a2b.1464994423.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# cb251765 05-Feb-2016 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default

schedstats is very useful during debugging and performance tuning but it
incurs overhead to calculate the stats. As such, even though it can be
disabled at build time, it is often enabled as the information is useful.

This patch adds a kernel command-line and sysctl tunable to enable or
disable schedstats on demand (when it's built in). It is disabled
by default as someone who knows they need it can also learn to enable
it when necessary.

The benefits are dependent on how scheduler-intensive the workload is.
If it is then the patch reduces the number of cycles spent calculating
the stats with a small benefit from reducing the cache footprint of the
scheduler.

These measurements were taken from a 48-core 2-socket
machine with Xeon(R) E5-2670 v3 cpus although they were also tested on a
single socket machine 8-core machine with Intel i7-3770 processors.

netperf-tcp
4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1
vanilla nostats-v3r1
Hmean 64 560.45 ( 0.00%) 575.98 ( 2.77%)
Hmean 128 766.66 ( 0.00%) 795.79 ( 3.80%)
Hmean 256 950.51 ( 0.00%) 981.50 ( 3.26%)
Hmean 1024 1433.25 ( 0.00%) 1466.51 ( 2.32%)
Hmean 2048 2810.54 ( 0.00%) 2879.75 ( 2.46%)
Hmean 3312 4618.18 ( 0.00%) 4682.09 ( 1.38%)
Hmean 4096 5306.42 ( 0.00%) 5346.39 ( 0.75%)
Hmean 8192 10581.44 ( 0.00%) 10698.15 ( 1.10%)
Hmean 16384 18857.70 ( 0.00%) 18937.61 ( 0.42%)

Small gains here, UDP_STREAM showed nothing intresting and neither did
the TCP_RR tests. The gains on the 8-core machine were very similar.

tbench4
4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1
vanilla nostats-v3r1
Hmean mb/sec-1 500.85 ( 0.00%) 522.43 ( 4.31%)
Hmean mb/sec-2 984.66 ( 0.00%) 1018.19 ( 3.41%)
Hmean mb/sec-4 1827.91 ( 0.00%) 1847.78 ( 1.09%)
Hmean mb/sec-8 3561.36 ( 0.00%) 3611.28 ( 1.40%)
Hmean mb/sec-16 5824.52 ( 0.00%) 5929.03 ( 1.79%)
Hmean mb/sec-32 10943.10 ( 0.00%) 10802.83 ( -1.28%)
Hmean mb/sec-64 15950.81 ( 0.00%) 16211.31 ( 1.63%)
Hmean mb/sec-128 15302.17 ( 0.00%) 15445.11 ( 0.93%)
Hmean mb/sec-256 14866.18 ( 0.00%) 15088.73 ( 1.50%)
Hmean mb/sec-512 15223.31 ( 0.00%) 15373.69 ( 0.99%)
Hmean mb/sec-1024 14574.25 ( 0.00%) 14598.02 ( 0.16%)
Hmean mb/sec-2048 13569.02 ( 0.00%) 13733.86 ( 1.21%)
Hmean mb/sec-3072 12865.98 ( 0.00%) 13209.23 ( 2.67%)

Small gains of 2-4% at low thread counts and otherwise flat. The
gains on the 8-core machine were slightly different

tbench4 on 8-core i7-3770 single socket machine
Hmean mb/sec-1 442.59 ( 0.00%) 448.73 ( 1.39%)
Hmean mb/sec-2 796.68 ( 0.00%) 794.39 ( -0.29%)
Hmean mb/sec-4 1322.52 ( 0.00%) 1343.66 ( 1.60%)
Hmean mb/sec-8 2611.65 ( 0.00%) 2694.86 ( 3.19%)
Hmean mb/sec-16 2537.07 ( 0.00%) 2609.34 ( 2.85%)
Hmean mb/sec-32 2506.02 ( 0.00%) 2578.18 ( 2.88%)
Hmean mb/sec-64 2511.06 ( 0.00%) 2569.16 ( 2.31%)
Hmean mb/sec-128 2313.38 ( 0.00%) 2395.50 ( 3.55%)
Hmean mb/sec-256 2110.04 ( 0.00%) 2177.45 ( 3.19%)
Hmean mb/sec-512 2072.51 ( 0.00%) 2053.97 ( -0.89%)

In constract, this shows a relatively steady 2-3% gain at higher thread
counts. Due to the nature of the patch and the type of workload, it's
not a surprise that the result will depend on the CPU used.

hackbench-pipes
4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1
vanilla nostats-v3r1
Amean 1 0.0637 ( 0.00%) 0.0660 ( -3.59%)
Amean 4 0.1229 ( 0.00%) 0.1181 ( 3.84%)
Amean 7 0.1921 ( 0.00%) 0.1911 ( 0.52%)
Amean 12 0.3117 ( 0.00%) 0.2923 ( 6.23%)
Amean 21 0.4050 ( 0.00%) 0.3899 ( 3.74%)
Amean 30 0.4586 ( 0.00%) 0.4433 ( 3.33%)
Amean 48 0.5910 ( 0.00%) 0.5694 ( 3.65%)
Amean 79 0.8663 ( 0.00%) 0.8626 ( 0.43%)
Amean 110 1.1543 ( 0.00%) 1.1517 ( 0.22%)
Amean 141 1.4457 ( 0.00%) 1.4290 ( 1.16%)
Amean 172 1.7090 ( 0.00%) 1.6924 ( 0.97%)
Amean 192 1.9126 ( 0.00%) 1.9089 ( 0.19%)

Some small gains and losses and while the variance data is not included,
it's close to the noise. The UMA machine did not show anything particularly
different

pipetest
4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1
vanilla nostats-v2r2
Min Time 4.13 ( 0.00%) 3.99 ( 3.39%)
1st-qrtle Time 4.38 ( 0.00%) 4.27 ( 2.51%)
2nd-qrtle Time 4.46 ( 0.00%) 4.39 ( 1.57%)
3rd-qrtle Time 4.56 ( 0.00%) 4.51 ( 1.10%)
Max-90% Time 4.67 ( 0.00%) 4.60 ( 1.50%)
Max-93% Time 4.71 ( 0.00%) 4.65 ( 1.27%)
Max-95% Time 4.74 ( 0.00%) 4.71 ( 0.63%)
Max-99% Time 4.88 ( 0.00%) 4.79 ( 1.84%)
Max Time 4.93 ( 0.00%) 4.83 ( 2.03%)
Mean Time 4.48 ( 0.00%) 4.39 ( 1.91%)
Best99%Mean Time 4.47 ( 0.00%) 4.39 ( 1.91%)
Best95%Mean Time 4.46 ( 0.00%) 4.38 ( 1.93%)
Best90%Mean Time 4.45 ( 0.00%) 4.36 ( 1.98%)
Best50%Mean Time 4.36 ( 0.00%) 4.25 ( 2.49%)
Best10%Mean Time 4.23 ( 0.00%) 4.10 ( 3.13%)
Best5%Mean Time 4.19 ( 0.00%) 4.06 ( 3.20%)
Best1%Mean Time 4.13 ( 0.00%) 4.00 ( 3.39%)

Small improvement and similar gains were seen on the UMA machine.

The gain is small but it stands to reason that doing less work in the
scheduler is a good thing. The downside is that the lack of schedstats and
tracepoints may be surprising to experts doing performance analysis until
they find the existence of the schedstats= parameter or schedstats sysctl.
It will be automatically activated for latencytop and sleep profiling to
alleviate the problem. For tracepoints, there is a simple warning as it's
not safe to activate schedstats in the context when it's known the tracepoint
may be wanted but is unavailable.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454663316-22048-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# f6db8347 25-Jun-2015 Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

sched/stat: Simplify the sched_info accounting dependency

Both CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y and CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT=y track task
sched_info, which results in ugly #if clauses.

Simplify the code by introducing a synthethic CONFIG_SCHED_INFO
switch, selected by both.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: ricklind@us.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8d19eef800811a94b0f91bcbeb27430a884d7433.1435255405.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 71107445 28-Apr-2015 Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>

sched, timer: Use the atomic task_cputime in thread_group_cputimer

Recent optimizations were made to thread_group_cputimer to improve its
scalability by keeping track of cputime stats without a lock. However,
the values were open coded to the structure, causing them to be at
a different abstraction level from the regular task_cputime structure.
Furthermore, any subsequent similar optimizations would not be able to
share the new code, since they are specific to thread_group_cputimer.

This patch adds the new task_cputime_atomic data structure (introduced in
the previous patch in the series) to thread_group_cputimer for keeping
track of the cputime atomically, which also helps generalize the code.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430251224-5764-6-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 1018016c 28-Apr-2015 Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>

sched, timer: Replace spinlocks with atomics in thread_group_cputimer(), to improve scalability

While running a database workload, we found a scalability issue with itimers.

Much of the problem was caused by the thread_group_cputimer spinlock.
Each time we account for group system/user time, we need to obtain a
thread_group_cputimer's spinlock to update the timers. On larger systems
(such as a 16 socket machine), this caused more than 30% of total time
spent trying to obtain this kernel lock to update these group timer stats.

This patch converts the timers to 64-bit atomic variables and use
atomic add to update them without a lock. With this patch, the percent
of total time spent updating thread group cputimer timers was reduced
from 30% down to less than 1%.

Note: On 32-bit systems using the generic 64-bit atomics, this causes
sample_group_cputimer() to take locks 3 times instead of just 1 time.
However, we tested this patch on a 32-bit system ARM system using the
generic atomics and did not find the overhead to be much of an issue.
An explanation for why this isn't an issue is that 32-bit systems usually
have small numbers of CPUs, and cacheline contention from extra spinlocks
called periodically is not really apparent on smaller systems.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430251224-5764-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 43148951 22-Sep-2013 Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

sched: Micro-optimize by dropping unnecessary task_rq() calls

We always know the rq used, let's just pass it around.
This seems to cut the size of scheduler core down a tiny bit:

Before:

[linux]$ size kernel/sched/core.o.orig
text data bss dec hex filename
62760 16130 3876 82766 1434e kernel/sched/core.o.orig

After:

[linux]$ size kernel/sched/core.o.patched
text data bss dec hex filename
62566 16130 3876 82572 1428c kernel/sched/core.o.patched

Probably speeds it up as well.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130922142054.GA11499@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 13b62e46 16-Sep-2013 Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

sched: Fix comment for sched_info_depart

sched_info_depart seems to be only called from
sched_info_switch(), so only on involuntary task switch.

Fix the comment to match.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130916083036.GA1113@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# fa18f7bd 26-May-2013 KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>

posix-cpu-timers: don't account cpu timer after stopped thread runtime accounting

When tsk->signal->cputimer->running is 1, signal->cputimer (i.e. per process
timer account) and tsk->sum_sched_runtime (i.e. per thread timer account)
increase at the same pace because update_curr() increases both accounting.

However, there is one exception. When thread exiting, __exit_signal() turns
over task's sum_shced_runtime to sig->sum_sched_runtime, but it doesn't stop
signal->cputimer accounting.

This inconsistency makes POSIX timer wake up too early. This patch fixes it.

Original-patch-by: Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>


# 78becc27 11-Apr-2013 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

sched: Use an accessor to read the rq clock

Read the runqueue clock through an accessor. This
prepares for adding a debugging infrastructure to
detect missing or redundant calls to update_rq_clock()
between a scheduler's entry and exit point.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 391e43da 15-Nov-2011 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

sched: Move all scheduler bits into kernel/sched/

There's too many sched*.[ch] files in kernel/, give them their own
directory.

(No code changed, other than Makefile glue added.)

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