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authorWanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>2015-05-13 08:01:03 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-06-19 10:06:46 +0200
commit9d514262425691dddf942edea8bc9919e66fe140 (patch)
tree98d4b95ceb5f29174080f0021b5aaf2ccda58f76 /kernel/sched
parentsched/deadline: Make init_sched_dl_class() __init (diff)
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sched/deadline: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible target
This patch adds a check that prevents futile attempts to move DL tasks to a CPU with active tasks of equal or earlier deadline. The same behavior as commit 80e3d87b2c55 ("sched/rt: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible target") for rt class. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431496867-4194-3-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/deadline.c15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 1c4bc31eb0f5..98f787143db4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -1012,7 +1012,9 @@ select_task_rq_dl(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int sd_flag, int flags)
(p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1)) {
int target = find_later_rq(p);
- if (target != -1)
+ if (target != -1 &&
+ dl_time_before(p->dl.deadline,
+ cpu_rq(target)->dl.earliest_dl.curr))
cpu = target;
}
rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -1359,6 +1361,17 @@ static struct rq *find_lock_later_rq(struct task_struct *task, struct rq *rq)
later_rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
+ if (!dl_time_before(task->dl.deadline,
+ later_rq->dl.earliest_dl.curr)) {
+ /*
+ * Target rq has tasks of equal or earlier deadline,
+ * retrying does not release any lock and is unlikely
+ * to yield a different result.
+ */
+ later_rq = NULL;
+ break;
+ }
+
/* Retry if something changed. */
if (double_lock_balance(rq, later_rq)) {
if (unlikely(task_rq(task) != rq ||