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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2013-11-18 18:27:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-12-11 15:52:35 +0100 |
| commit | 9dbdb155532395ba000c5d5d187658b0e17e529f (patch) | |
| tree | a01fb4066fbad520f364abc0bb7b68f45aab3100 /include/linux/sched.h | |
| parent | be5e610c0fd6ef772cafb9e0bd4128134804aef3 (diff) | |
sched/fair: Rework sched_fair time accounting
Christian suffers from a bad BIOS that wrecks his i5's TSC sync. This
results in him occasionally seeing time going backwards - which
crashes the scheduler ...
Most of our time accounting can actually handle that except the most
common one; the tick time update of sched_fair.
There is a further problem with that code; previously we assumed that
because we get a tick every TICK_NSEC our time delta could never
exceed 32bits and math was simpler.
However, ever since Frederic managed to get NO_HZ_FULL merged; this is
no longer the case since now a task can run for a long time indeed
without getting a tick. It only takes about ~4.2 seconds to overflow
our u32 in nanoseconds.
This means we not only need to better deal with time going backwards;
but also means we need to be able to deal with large deltas.
This patch reworks the entire code and uses mul_u64_u32_shr() as
proposed by Andy a long while ago.
We express our virtual time scale factor in a u32 multiplier and shift
right and the 32bit mul_u64_u32_shr() implementation reduces to a
single 32x32->64 multiply if the time delta is still short (common
case).
For 64bit a 64x64->128 multiply can be used if ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131118172706.GI3866@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 96d674ba3876..53f97eb8dbc7 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -930,7 +930,8 @@ struct pipe_inode_info; struct uts_namespace; struct load_weight { - unsigned long weight, inv_weight; + unsigned long weight; + u32 inv_weight; }; struct sched_avg { |