sched/deadline: speed up SCHED_DEADLINE pushes with a push-heap
authorJuri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Thu, 7 Nov 2013 13:43:47 +0000 (14:43 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:46:46 +0000 (13:46 +0100)
commit6bfd6d72f51c51177676f2b1ba113fe0a85fdae4
tree8c3c4c49f18ba3218da4274623b50da0a317f2d6
parent332ac17ef5bfcff4766dfdfd3b4cdf10b8f8f155
sched/deadline: speed up SCHED_DEADLINE pushes with a push-heap

Data from tests confirmed that the original active load balancing
logic didn't scale neither in the number of CPU nor in the number of
tasks (as sched_rt does).

Here we provide a global data structure to keep track of deadlines
of the running tasks in the system. The structure is composed by
a bitmask showing the free CPUs and a max-heap, needed when the system
is heavily loaded.

The implementation and concurrent access scheme are kept simple by
design. However, our measurements show that we can compete with sched_rt
on large multi-CPUs machines [1].

Only the push path is addressed, the extension to use this structure
also for pull decisions is straightforward. However, we are currently
evaluating different (in order to decrease/avoid contention) data
structures to solve possibly both problems. We are also going to re-run
tests considering recent changes inside cpupri [2].

 [1] http://retis.sssup.it/~jlelli/papers/Ospert11Lelli.pdf
 [2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg06778.html

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-14-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/Makefile
kernel/sched/core.c
kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c [new file with mode: 0644]
kernel/sched/cpudeadline.h [new file with mode: 0644]
kernel/sched/deadline.c
kernel/sched/sched.h