sched: add RT-balance cpu-weight

Some RT tasks (particularly kthreads) are bound to one specific CPU.
It is fairly common for two or more bound tasks to get queued up at the
same time.  Consider, for instance, softirq_timer and softirq_sched.  A
timer goes off in an ISR which schedules softirq_thread to run at RT50.
Then the timer handler determines that it's time to smp-rebalance the
system so it schedules softirq_sched to run.  So we are in a situation
where we have two RT50 tasks queued, and the system will go into
rt-overload condition to request other CPUs for help.

This causes two problems in the current code:

1) If a high-priority bound task and a low-priority unbounded task queue
   up behind the running task, we will fail to ever relocate the unbounded
   task because we terminate the search on the first unmovable task.

2) We spend precious futile cycles in the fast-path trying to pull
   overloaded tasks over.  It is therefore optimial to strive to avoid the
   overhead all together if we can cheaply detect the condition before
   overload even occurs.

This patch tries to achieve this optimization by utilizing the hamming
weight of the task->cpus_allowed mask.  A weight of 1 indicates that
the task cannot be migrated.  We will then utilize this information to
skip non-migratable tasks and to eliminate uncessary rebalance attempts.

We introduce a per-rq variable to count the number of migratable tasks
that are currently running.  We only go into overload if we have more
than one rt task, AND at least one of them is migratable.

In addition, we introduce a per-task variable to cache the cpus_allowed
weight, since the hamming calculation is probably relatively expensive.
We only update the cached value when the mask is updated which should be
relatively infrequent, especially compared to scheduling frequency
in the fast path.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

include/linux/init_task.h

diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index cae35b6..572c65b 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@
 	.normal_prio	= MAX_PRIO-20,					\
 	.policy		= SCHED_NORMAL,					\
 	.cpus_allowed	= CPU_MASK_ALL,					\
+	.nr_cpus_allowed = NR_CPUS,					\
 	.mm		= NULL,						\
 	.active_mm	= &init_mm,					\
 	.run_list	= LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.run_list),			\

include/linux/sched.h

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 0846f1f..b07a2cf 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -847,6 +847,7 @@
 	void (*set_curr_task) (struct rq *rq);
 	void (*task_tick) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p);
 	void (*task_new) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p);
+	void (*set_cpus_allowed)(struct task_struct *p, cpumask_t *newmask);
 };
 
 struct load_weight {
@@ -956,6 +957,7 @@
 
 	unsigned int policy;
 	cpumask_t cpus_allowed;
+	int nr_cpus_allowed;
 	unsigned int time_slice;
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS) || defined(CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT)

kernel/fork.c

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 09c0b90..930c518 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1242,6 +1242,7 @@
 	 * parent's CPU). This avoids alot of nasty races.
 	 */
 	p->cpus_allowed = current->cpus_allowed;
+	p->nr_cpus_allowed = current->nr_cpus_allowed;
 	if (unlikely(!cpu_isset(task_cpu(p), p->cpus_allowed) ||
 			!cpu_online(task_cpu(p))))
 		set_task_cpu(p, smp_processor_id());

kernel/sched.c

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 357d3a0..66e99b4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@
 	int rt_load_balance_idx;
 	struct list_head *rt_load_balance_head, *rt_load_balance_curr;
 	unsigned long rt_nr_running;
+	unsigned long rt_nr_migratory;
 	/* highest queued rt task prio */
 	int highest_prio;
 };
@@ -5144,7 +5145,13 @@
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	p->cpus_allowed = new_mask;
+	if (p->sched_class->set_cpus_allowed)
+		p->sched_class->set_cpus_allowed(p, &new_mask);
+	else {
+		p->cpus_allowed    = new_mask;
+		p->nr_cpus_allowed = cpus_weight(new_mask);
+	}
+
 	/* Can the task run on the task's current CPU? If so, we're done */
 	if (cpu_isset(task_cpu(p), new_mask))
 		goto out;

kernel/sched_rt.c

diff --git a/kernel/sched_rt.c b/kernel/sched_rt.c
index c492fd2..ae4995c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_rt.c
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@
 	atomic_dec(&rto_count);
 	cpu_clear(rq->cpu, rt_overload_mask);
 }
+
+static void update_rt_migration(struct rq *rq)
+{
+	if (rq->rt.rt_nr_migratory && (rq->rt.rt_nr_running > 1))
+		rt_set_overload(rq);
+	else
+		rt_clear_overload(rq);
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 
 /*
@@ -65,8 +73,10 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	if (p->prio < rq->rt.highest_prio)
 		rq->rt.highest_prio = p->prio;
-	if (rq->rt.rt_nr_running > 1)
-		rt_set_overload(rq);
+	if (p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1)
+		rq->rt.rt_nr_migratory++;
+
+	update_rt_migration(rq);
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 }
 
@@ -88,8 +98,10 @@
 		} /* otherwise leave rq->highest prio alone */
 	} else
 		rq->rt.highest_prio = MAX_RT_PRIO;
-	if (rq->rt.rt_nr_running < 2)
-		rt_clear_overload(rq);
+	if (p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1)
+		rq->rt.rt_nr_migratory--;
+
+	update_rt_migration(rq);
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 }
 
@@ -182,7 +194,8 @@
 static int pick_rt_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
 {
 	if (!task_running(rq, p) &&
-	    (cpu < 0 || cpu_isset(cpu, p->cpus_allowed)))
+	    (cpu < 0 || cpu_isset(cpu, p->cpus_allowed)) &&
+	    (p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1))
 		return 1;
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -584,6 +597,32 @@
 	/* don't touch RT tasks */
 	return 0;
 }
+static void set_cpus_allowed_rt(struct task_struct *p, cpumask_t *new_mask)
+{
+	int weight = cpus_weight(*new_mask);
+
+	BUG_ON(!rt_task(p));
+
+	/*
+	 * Update the migration status of the RQ if we have an RT task
+	 * which is running AND changing its weight value.
+	 */
+	if (p->se.on_rq && (weight != p->nr_cpus_allowed)) {
+		struct rq *rq = task_rq(p);
+
+		if ((p->nr_cpus_allowed <= 1) && (weight > 1))
+			rq->rt.rt_nr_migratory++;
+		else if((p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1) && (weight <= 1)) {
+			BUG_ON(!rq->rt.rt_nr_migratory);
+			rq->rt.rt_nr_migratory--;
+		}
+
+		update_rt_migration(rq);
+	}
+
+	p->cpus_allowed    = *new_mask;
+	p->nr_cpus_allowed = weight;
+}
 #else /* CONFIG_SMP */
 # define schedule_tail_balance_rt(rq)	do { } while (0)
 # define schedule_balance_rt(rq, prev)	do { } while (0)
@@ -637,6 +676,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	.load_balance		= load_balance_rt,
 	.move_one_task		= move_one_task_rt,
+	.set_cpus_allowed       = set_cpus_allowed_rt,
 #endif
 
 	.set_curr_task          = set_curr_task_rt,