From 80ed87c8a9ca0cad7ca66cf3bbdfb17559a66dcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 14:23:45 +0200 Subject: sched/wait: Introduce TASK_NOLOAD and TASK_IDLE Currently people use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to idle kthreads and wait for 'work' because TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE contributes to the loadavg. Having all idle kthreads contribute to the loadavg is somewhat silly. Now mostly this works OK, because kthreads have all their signals masked. However there's a few sites where this is causing problems and TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE should be used, except for that loadavg issue. This patch adds TASK_NOLOAD which, when combined with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE avoids the loadavg accounting. As most of imagined usage sites are loops where a thread wants to idle, waiting for work, a helper TASK_IDLE is introduced. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Julian Anastasov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: NeilBrown Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/sched.h | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index dd07ac03f82a..7de815c6fa78 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -218,9 +218,10 @@ print_cfs_rq(struct seq_file *m, int cpu, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq); #define TASK_WAKEKILL 128 #define TASK_WAKING 256 #define TASK_PARKED 512 -#define TASK_STATE_MAX 1024 +#define TASK_NOLOAD 1024 +#define TASK_STATE_MAX 2048 -#define TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR "RSDTtXZxKWP" +#define TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR "RSDTtXZxKWPN" extern char ___assert_task_state[1 - 2*!!( sizeof(TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR)-1 != ilog2(TASK_STATE_MAX)+1)]; @@ -230,6 +231,8 @@ extern char ___assert_task_state[1 - 2*!!( #define TASK_STOPPED (TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_STOPPED) #define TASK_TRACED (TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_TRACED) +#define TASK_IDLE (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_NOLOAD) + /* Convenience macros for the sake of wake_up */ #define TASK_NORMAL (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) #define TASK_ALL (TASK_NORMAL | __TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED) @@ -245,7 +248,8 @@ extern char ___assert_task_state[1 - 2*!!( ((task->state & (__TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED)) != 0) #define task_contributes_to_load(task) \ ((task->state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) != 0 && \ - (task->flags & PF_FROZEN) == 0) + (task->flags & PF_FROZEN) == 0 && \ + (task->state & TASK_NOLOAD) == 0) #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP -- cgit v1.2.3