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Ingo Molnar
58b8a73ab8 sched: make PREEMPT_BKL the default
make PREEMPT_BKL the default.

precursor to removal of the !PREEMPT_BKL code.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
e14af7eeb4 debug: track and print last unloaded module in the oops trace
Based on a suggestion from Andi:

 In various cases, the unload of a module may leave some bad state around
 that causes a kernel crash AFTER a module is unloaded; and it's then hard
 to find which module caused that.

This patch tracks the last unloaded module, and prints this as part of the
module list in the oops trace.

Right now, only the last 1 module is tracked; I expect that this is enough
for the vast majority of cases where this information matters; if it turns
out that tracking more is important, we can always extend it to that.

[ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ]

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
21aa9280b9 debug: show being-loaded/being-unloaded indicator for modules
It's rather common that an oops/WARN_ON/BUG happens during the load or
unload of a module. Unfortunatly, it's not always easy to see directly
which module is being loaded/unloaded from the oops itself. Worse,
it's not even always possible to ask the bug reporter, since there
are so many components (udev etc) that auto-load modules that there's
a good chance that even the reporter doesn't know which module this is.

This patch extends the existing "show if it's tainting" print code,
which is used as part of printing the modules in the oops/BUG/WARN_ON
to include a "+" for "being loaded" and a "-" for "being unloaded".

As a result this extension, the "taint_flags()" function gets renamed to
"module_flags()" (and takes a module struct as argument, not a taint
flags int).

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
5a52dd5009 sched: rt-watchdog: fix .rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY
Remove the curious logic to set it_sched_expires in the future. It useless
because rt.timeout wouldn't be incremented anyway.

Explicity check for RLIM_INFINITY as a test programm that had a 1s soft limit
and a inf hard limit would SIGKILL at 1s. This is because RLIM_INFINITY+d-1
is d-2.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlsta <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:32 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
1020387f5f sched: rt-group: reduce rescheduling
Only reschedule if the new group has a higher prio task.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:32 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
37bb6cb409 hrtimer: unlock hrtimer_wakeup
hrtimer_wakeup creates a

  base->lock
    rq->lock

lock dependancy. Avoid this by switching to HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ
which doesn't hold base->lock.

This fully untangles hrtimer locks from the scheduler locks, and allows
hrtimer usage in the scheduler proper.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:32 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
d3d74453c3 hrtimer: fixup the HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ fallback
Currently all highres=off timers are run from softirq context, but
HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ timers expect to run from irq context.

Fix this up by splitting it similar to the highres=on case.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:31 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
2d44ae4d71 hrtimer: clean up cpu->base locking tricks
In order to more easily allow for the scheduler to use timers, clean up
the locking a bit.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:31 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
48d5e25821 sched: rt throttling vs no_hz
We need to teach no_hz about the rt throttling because its tick driven.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:31 +01:00
Mike Galbraith
614ee1f61f sched: pull_rt_task() cleanup
"goto out" is an odd way to spell "skip".

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:30 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
6f505b1642 sched: rt group scheduling
Extend group scheduling to also cover the realtime classes. It uses the time
limiting introduced by the previous patch to allow multiple realtime groups.

The hard time limit is required to keep behaviour deterministic.

The algorithms used make the realtime scheduler O(tg), linear scaling wrt the
number of task groups. This is the worst case behaviour I can't seem to get out
of, the avg. case of the algorithms can be improved, I focused on correctness
and worst case.

[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: move side-effects out of BUG_ON(). ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:30 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
fa85ae2418 sched: rt time limit
Very simple time limit on the realtime scheduling classes.
Allow the rq's realtime class to consume sched_rt_ratio of every
sched_rt_period slice. If the class exceeds this quota the fair class
will preempt the realtime class.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
8f4d37ec07 sched: high-res preemption tick
Use HR-timers (when available) to deliver an accurate preemption tick.

The regular scheduler tick that runs at 1/HZ can be too coarse when nice
level are used. The fairness system will still keep the cpu utilisation 'fair'
by then delaying the task that got an excessive amount of CPU time but try to
minimize this by delivering preemption points spot-on.

The average frequency of this extra interrupt is sched_latency / nr_latency.
Which need not be higher than 1/HZ, its just that the distribution within the
sched_latency period is important.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
Herbert Xu
02b67cc3ba sched: do not do cond_resched() when CONFIG_PREEMPT
Why do we even have cond_resched when real preemption
is on? It seems to be a waste of space and time.

remove cond_resched with CONFIG_PREEMPT on.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:28 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
03319ec8b0 sched: documentation, whitespace fixes
whitespace fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:28 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
78f2c7db60 sched: SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR watchdog timer
Introduce a new rlimit that allows the user to set a runtime timeout on
real-time tasks their slice. Once this limit is exceeded the task will receive
SIGXCPU.

So it measures runtime since the last sleep.

Input and ideas by Thomas Gleixner and Lennart Poettering.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:27 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
fa717060f1 sched: sched_rt_entity
Move the task_struct members specific to rt scheduling together.
A future optimization could be to put sched_entity and sched_rt_entity
into a union.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:27 +01:00
Pavel Emelyanov
8eb703e4f3 uids: merge multiple error paths in alloc_uid() into one
There are already 4 error paths in alloc_uid() that do incremental rollbacks.
I think it's time to merge them.  This costs us 8 lines of code :)

Maybe it would be better to merge this patch with the previous one, but I
remember that some time ago I sent a similar patch (fixing the error path and
cleaning it), but I was told to make two patches in such cases.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:26 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
dc938520d2 sched: dynamically update the root-domain span/online maps
The baseline code statically builds the span maps when the domain is formed.
Previous attempts at dynamically updating the maps caused a suspend-to-ram
regression, which should now be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:26 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
eaf649e9fe Preempt-RCU: CPU Hotplug handling
This patch allows preemptible RCU to tolerate CPU-hotplug operations.
It accomplishes this by maintaining a local copy of a map of online
CPUs, which it accesses under its own lock.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:25 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
e260be673a Preempt-RCU: implementation
This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side
critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs
to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them
when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details
of this implementation can be found in this paper -

	http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf

and the article-

	http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/

This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and
meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of
RCU don't disable preemption.  As a consequence of keeping track of RCU
readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper).
This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations
and can be switched to at compiler.

Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs.

[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ]

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
e0ecfa7917 Preempt-RCU: fix rcu_barrier for preemptive environment.
Fix rcu_barrier() to work properly in preemptive kernel environment.
Also, the ordering of callback must be preserved while moving
callbacks to another CPU during CPU hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
01c1c660f4 Preempt-RCU: reorganize RCU code into rcuclassic.c and rcupdate.c
This patch re-organizes the RCU code to enable multiple implementations
of RCU. Users of RCU continues to include rcupdate.h and the
RCU interfaces remain the same. This is in preparation for
subsequently merging the preemptible RCU implementation.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
Dipankar Sarma
c2d727aa2f Preempt-RCU: Use softirq instead of tasklets for
This patch makes RCU use softirq instead of tasklets.

It also adds a memory barrier after raising the softirq
inorder to ensure that the cpu sees the most recently updated
value of rcu->cur while processing callbacks.
The discussion of the related theoretical race pointed out
by James Huang can be found here --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/20/603

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:23 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
c49443c538 sched: remove some old cpuset logic
We had support for overlapping cpuset based rto logic in early
prototypes that is no longer used, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:23 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
cdc8eb984c sched: RT-balance, only adjust overload state when changing
The overload set/clears were originally idempotent when this logic was first
implemented.  But that is no longer true due to the addition of the atomic
counter and this logic was never updated to work properly with that change.
So only adjust the overload state if it is actually changing to avoid
getting out of sync.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:23 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
cb46984504 sched: RT-balance, add new methods to sched_class
Dmitry Adamushko found that the current implementation of the RT
balancing code left out changes to the sched_setscheduler and
rt_mutex_setprio.

This patch addresses this issue by adding methods to the schedule classes
to handle being switched out of (switched_from) and being switched into
(switched_to) a sched_class. Also a method for changing of priorities
is also added (prio_changed).

This patch also removes some duplicate logic between rt_mutex_setprio and
sched_setscheduler.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:22 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
9a897c5a67 sched: RT-balance, replace hooks with pre/post schedule and wakeup methods
To make the main sched.c code more agnostic to the schedule classes.
Instead of having specific hooks in the schedule code for the RT class
balancing. They are replaced with a pre_schedule, post_schedule
and task_wake_up methods. These methods may be used by any of the classes
but currently, only the sched_rt class implements them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:22 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
4bf0b77158 sched: remove do_div() from __sched_slice()
Yanmin Zhang noticed a nice optimization:

  p = l * nr / nl, nl = l/g -> p = g * nr

which eliminates a do_div() from __sched_period().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:21 +01:00
Dmitry Adamushko
5d2f5a616d sched: get rid of 'new_cpu' in try_to_wake_up()
Clean-up try_to_wake_up().

Get rid of the 'new_cpu' variable in try_to_wake_up() [ that's, one
#ifdef section less ].  Also remove a few redundant blank lines.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:21 +01:00
Dmitry Adamushko
9ec3b77e11 sched: no need for 'affine wakeup' balancing
No need to do a check for 'affine wakeup and passive balancing possibilities'
in select_task_rq_fair() when task_cpu(p) == this_cpu.

I guess, this part got missed upon introduction of per-sched_class
select_task_rq() in try_to_wake_up().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b913176917 sched: add credits for RT balancing improvements
add credits for RT balancing improvements.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0eab914657 sched: style cleanup, #2
style cleanup of various changes that were done recently.

no code changed:

      text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
     26399    2578      48   29025    7161 sched.o.before
     26399    2578      48   29025    7161 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d7876a08db sched: remove unused JIFFIES_TO_NS() macro
remove unused JIFFIES_TO_NS() macro.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
bdd7c81b49 sched: fix sched_rt.c:join/leave_domain
fix build bug in sched_rt.c:join/leave_domain and make them only
be included on SMP builds.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:18 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
637f50851b sched: only balance our RT tasks within our domain
We move the rt-overload data as the first global to per-domain
reclassification.  This limits the scope of overload related cache-line
bouncing to stay with a specified partition instead of affecting all
cpus in the system.

Finally, we limit the scope of find_lowest_cpu searches to the domain
instead of the entire system.  Note that we would always respect domain
boundaries even without this patch, but we first would scan potentially
all cpus before whittling the list down.  Now we can avoid looking at
RQs that are out of scope, again reducing cache-line hits.

Note: In some cases, task->cpus_allowed will effectively reduce our search
to within our domain.  However, I believe there are cases where the
cpus_allowed mask may be all ones and therefore we err on the side of
caution.  If it can be optimized later, so be it.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:18 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
57d885fea0 sched: add sched-domain roots
We add the notion of a root-domain which will be used later to rescope
global variables to per-domain variables.  Each exclusive cpuset
essentially defines an island domain by fully partitioning the member cpus
from any other cpuset.  However, we currently still maintain some
policy/state as global variables which transcend all cpusets.  Consider,
for instance, rt-overload state.

Whenever a new exclusive cpuset is created, we also create a new
root-domain object and move each cpu member to the root-domain's span.
By default the system creates a single root-domain with all cpus as
members (mimicking the global state we have today).

We add some plumbing for storing class specific data in our root-domain.
Whenever a RQ is switching root-domains (because of repartitioning) we
give each sched_class the opportunity to remove any state from its old
domain and add state to the new one.  This logic doesn't have any clients
yet but it will later in the series.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
CC: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
CC: Simon Derr <simon.derr@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
7f51f29820 sched: clean up schedule_balance_rt()
clean up schedule_balance_rt().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:17 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
80bf3171dc sched: clean up pull_rt_task()
clean up pull_rt_task().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:17 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
00597c3ed7 sched: remove leftover debugging
remove leftover debugging.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6e1938d3ad sched: remove rt_overload()
remove rt_overload() - it's an unnecessary indirection.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
84de427489 sched: clean up kernel/sched_rt.c
clean up whitespace damage and missing comments in kernel/sched_rt.c.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
deeeccd41b sched: clean up overlong line in kernel/sched_debug.c
clean up overlong line in kernel/sched_debug.c.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4df64c0bfb sched: clean up find_lock_lowest_rq()
clean up find_lock_lowest_rq().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
79064fbf75 sched: clean up pick_next_highest_task_rt()
clean up pick_next_highest_task_rt().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:14 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
0d1311a536 sched: RT-balance on new task
rt-balance when creating new tasks.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:14 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
610bf05645 sched: RT-balance, optimize cpu search
This patch removes several cpumask operations by keeping track
of the first of the CPUS that is of the lowest priority. When
the search for the lowest priority runqueue is completed, all
the bits up to the first CPU with the lowest priority runqueue
is cleared.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:13 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
06f90dbd76 sched: RT-balance, optimize
We can cheaply track the number of bits set in the cpumask for the lowest
priority CPUs.  Therefore, compute the mask's weight and use it to skip
the optimal domain search logic when there is only one CPU available.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:13 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
17b3279b48 sched: break out early if RT task cannot be migrated
We don't need to bother searching if the task cannot be migrated

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:13 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
e1f47d891c sched: RT-balance, avoid overloading
This patch changes the searching for a run queue by a waking RT task
to try to pick another runqueue if the currently running task
is an RT task.

The reason is that RT tasks behave different than normal
tasks. Preempting a normal task to run a RT task to keep
its cache hot is fine, because the preempted non-RT task
may wait on that same runqueue to run again unless the
migration thread comes along and pulls it off.

RT tasks behave differently. If one is preempted, it makes
an active effort to continue to run. So by having a high
priority task preempt a lower priority RT task, that lower
RT task will then quickly try to run on another runqueue.
This will cause that lower RT task to replace its nice
hot cache (and TLB) with a completely cold one. This is
for the hope that the new high priority RT task will keep
 its cache hot.

Remeber that this high priority RT task was just woken up.
So it may likely have been sleeping for several milliseconds,
and will end up with a cold cache anyway. RT tasks run till
they voluntarily stop, or are preempted by a higher priority
task. This means that it is unlikely that the woken RT task
will have a hot cache to wake up to. So pushing off a lower
RT task is just killing its cache for no good reason.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:12 +01:00