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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2020-09-28 17:06:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2020-11-10 18:39:01 +0100 |
| commit | a7c81556ec4d341dfdbf2cc478ead89d73e474a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 283c921cde98dacd7b5c2033b9b558b0e908834f /include/linux/sched.h | |
| parent | ded467dc83ac7173f1532bb0faa25022ff8769e5 (diff) | |
sched: Fix migrate_disable() vs rt/dl balancing
In order to minimize the interference of migrate_disable() on lower
priority tasks, which can be deprived of runtime due to being stuck
below a higher priority task. Teach the RT/DL balancers to push away
these higher priority tasks when a lower priority task gets selected
to run on a freshly demoted CPU (pull).
This adds migration interference to the higher priority task, but
restores bandwidth to system that would otherwise be irrevocably lost.
Without this it would be possible to have all tasks on the system
stuck on a single CPU, each task preempted in a migrate_disable()
section with a single high priority task running.
This way we can still approximate running the M highest priority tasks
on the system.
Migrating the top task away is (ofcourse) still subject to
migrate_disable() too, which means the lower task is subject to an
interference equivalent to the worst case migrate_disable() section.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102347.499155098@infradead.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 90a0c92741d7..3af9d52fe093 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -716,8 +716,9 @@ struct task_struct { cpumask_t cpus_mask; void *migration_pending; #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) - int migration_disabled; + unsigned short migration_disabled; #endif + unsigned short migration_flags; #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU int rcu_read_lock_nesting; |