<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/sched.h, branch v2.6.25.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>NOHZ: reevaluate idle sleep length after add_timer_on()</title>
<updated>2008-03-26T07:28:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-03-22T08:20:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=06d8308c61e54346585b2691c13ee3f90cb6fb2f'/>
<id>06d8308c61e54346585b2691c13ee3f90cb6fb2f</id>
<content type='text'>
add_timer_on() can add a timer on a CPU which is currently in a long
idle sleep, but the timer wheel is not reevaluated by the nohz code on
that CPU. So a timer can be delayed for quite a long time. This
triggered a false positive in the clocksource watchdog code.

To avoid this we need to wake up the idle CPU and enforce the
reevaluation of the timer wheel for the next timer event.

Add a function, which checks a given CPU for idle state, marks the
idle task with NEED_RESCHED and sends a reschedule IPI to notify the
other CPU of the change in the timer wheel.

Call this function from add_timer_on().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org

--
 include/linux/sched.h |    6 ++++++
 kernel/sched.c        |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/timer.c        |   10 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
add_timer_on() can add a timer on a CPU which is currently in a long
idle sleep, but the timer wheel is not reevaluated by the nohz code on
that CPU. So a timer can be delayed for quite a long time. This
triggered a false positive in the clocksource watchdog code.

To avoid this we need to wake up the idle CPU and enforce the
reevaluation of the timer wheel for the next timer event.

Add a function, which checks a given CPU for idle state, marks the
idle task with NEED_RESCHED and sends a reschedule IPI to notify the
other CPU of the change in the timer wheel.

Call this function from add_timer_on().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org

--
 include/linux/sched.h |    6 ++++++
 kernel/sched.c        |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/timer.c        |   10 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: add exported arch_reinit_sched_domains() to header file.</title>
<updated>2008-03-21T15:43:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-03-12T17:31:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=9aefd0abd8610e8f3bb097debf3afb73f8b7b210'/>
<id>9aefd0abd8610e8f3bb097debf3afb73f8b7b210</id>
<content type='text'>
Needed so it can be called from outside of sched.c.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Needed so it can be called from outside of sched.c.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: improve affine wakeups</title>
<updated>2008-03-19T03:27:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2008-03-19T00:42:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=4ae7d5cefd4aa3560e359a3b0f03e12adc8b5c86'/>
<id>4ae7d5cefd4aa3560e359a3b0f03e12adc8b5c86</id>
<content type='text'>
improve affine wakeups. Maintain the 'overlap' metric based on CFS's
sum_exec_runtime - which means the amount of time a task executes
after it wakes up some other task.

Use the 'overlap' for the wakeup decisions: if the 'overlap' is short,
it means there's strong workload coupling between this task and the
woken up task. If the 'overlap' is large then the workload is decoupled
and the scheduler will move them to separate CPUs more easily.

( Also slightly move the preempt_check within try_to_wake_up() - this has
  no effect on functionality but allows 'early wakeups' (for still-on-rq
  tasks) to be correctly accounted as well.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
improve affine wakeups. Maintain the 'overlap' metric based on CFS's
sum_exec_runtime - which means the amount of time a task executes
after it wakes up some other task.

Use the 'overlap' for the wakeup decisions: if the 'overlap' is short,
it means there's strong workload coupling between this task and the
woken up task. If the 'overlap' is large then the workload is decoupled
and the scheduler will move them to separate CPUs more easily.

( Also slightly move the preempt_check within try_to_wake_up() - this has
  no effect on functionality but allows 'early wakeups' (for still-on-rq
  tasks) to be correctly accounted as well.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: retain vruntime</title>
<updated>2008-03-07T15:42:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-29T20:21:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=810b38179e9e4d4f57b4b733767bb08f8291a965'/>
<id>810b38179e9e4d4f57b4b733767bb08f8291a965</id>
<content type='text'>
Kei Tokunaga reported an interactivity problem when moving tasks
between control groups.

Tasks would retain their old vruntime when moved between groups, this
can cause funny lags. Re-set the vruntime on group move to fit within
the new tree.

Reported-by: Kei Tokunaga &lt;tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Kei Tokunaga reported an interactivity problem when moving tasks
between control groups.

Tasks would retain their old vruntime when moved between groups, this
can cause funny lags. Re-set the vruntime on group move to fit within
the new tree.

Reported-by: Kei Tokunaga &lt;tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: revert load_balance_monitor() changes</title>
<updated>2008-03-04T16:54:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-25T16:34:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=62fb185130e4d420f71a30ff59d8b16b74ef5d2b'/>
<id>62fb185130e4d420f71a30ff59d8b16b74ef5d2b</id>
<content type='text'>
The following commits cause a number of regressions:

  commit 58e2d4ca581167c2a079f4ee02be2f0bc52e8729
  Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri &lt;vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
  Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100
  sched: group scheduling, change how cpu load is calculated

  commit 6b2d7700266b9402e12824e11e0099ae6a4a6a79
  Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri &lt;vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
  Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100
  sched: group scheduler, fix fairness of cpu bandwidth allocation for task groups

Namely:
 - very frequent wakeups on SMP, reported by PowerTop users.
 - cacheline trashing on (large) SMP
 - some latencies larger than 500ms

While there is a mergeable patch to fix the latter, the former issues
are not fixable in a manner suitable for .25 (we're at -rc3 now).

Hence we revert them and try again in v2.6.26.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri &lt;vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexey Zaytsev &lt;alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The following commits cause a number of regressions:

  commit 58e2d4ca581167c2a079f4ee02be2f0bc52e8729
  Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri &lt;vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
  Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100
  sched: group scheduling, change how cpu load is calculated

  commit 6b2d7700266b9402e12824e11e0099ae6a4a6a79
  Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri &lt;vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
  Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100
  sched: group scheduler, fix fairness of cpu bandwidth allocation for task groups

Namely:
 - very frequent wakeups on SMP, reported by PowerTop users.
 - cacheline trashing on (large) SMP
 - some latencies larger than 500ms

While there is a mergeable patch to fix the latter, the former issues
are not fixable in a manner suitable for .25 (we're at -rc3 now).

Hence we revert them and try again in v2.6.26.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri &lt;vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexey Zaytsev &lt;alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'v2.6.25-rc3-lockdep' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep</title>
<updated>2008-02-26T15:49:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-26T15:49:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=3fca96eed1cc9fb524aec536bba8ae921563f1bb'/>
<id>3fca96eed1cc9fb524aec536bba8ae921563f1bb</id>
<content type='text'>
* 'v2.6.25-rc3-lockdep' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep:
  Subject: lockdep: include all lock classes in all_lock_classes
  lockdep: increase MAX_LOCK_DEPTH
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
* 'v2.6.25-rc3-lockdep' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep:
  Subject: lockdep: include all lock classes in all_lock_classes
  lockdep: increase MAX_LOCK_DEPTH
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lockdep: increase MAX_LOCK_DEPTH</title>
<updated>2008-02-25T22:02:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-25T22:02:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=bdb9441e9c325d50b5ae17f7d3205d65b8ed2e5f'/>
<id>bdb9441e9c325d50b5ae17f7d3205d65b8ed2e5f</id>
<content type='text'>
Some code paths exceed the current max lock depth (XFS), so increase
this limit a bit. I looked at making this a dynamic allocated array,
but we should not advocate insane lock depths, so stay with this as
long as it works...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Some code paths exceed the current max lock depth (XFS), so increase
this limit a bit. I looked at making this a dynamic allocated array,
but we should not advocate insane lock depths, so stay with this as
long as it works...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: add declaration of sched_tail to sched.h</title>
<updated>2008-02-25T15:34:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harvey Harrison</name>
<email>harvey.harrison@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-15T17:56:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=2d07b255c7b8a9723010e5c74778e058dc05162e'/>
<id>2d07b255c7b8a9723010e5c74778e058dc05162e</id>
<content type='text'>
Avoids sparse warnings:
kernel/sched.c:2170:17: warning: symbol 'schedule_tail' was not declared. Should it be static?

Avoids the need for an external declaration in arch/um/process.c

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Avoids sparse warnings:
kernel/sched.c:2170:17: warning: symbol 'schedule_tail' was not declared. Should it be static?

Avoids the need for an external declaration in arch/um/process.c

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>include/linux: Remove all users of FASTCALL() macro</title>
<updated>2008-02-14T00:21:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harvey Harrison</name>
<email>harvey.harrison@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-13T23:03:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=b3c97528689619fc66569b30bf83d09d9929521a'/>
<id>b3c97528689619fc66569b30bf83d09d9929521a</id>
<content type='text'>
FASTCALL() is always expanded to empty, remove it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
FASTCALL() is always expanded to empty, remove it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: rt-group: make rt groups scheduling configurable</title>
<updated>2008-02-13T14:45:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-13T14:45:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=052f1dc7eb02300b05170ae341ccd03b76207778'/>
<id>052f1dc7eb02300b05170ae341ccd03b76207778</id>
<content type='text'>
Make the rt group scheduler compile time configurable.
Keep it experimental for now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Make the rt group scheduler compile time configurable.
Keep it experimental for now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
