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authorMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>2016-11-23 11:33:37 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-11-24 05:45:02 +0100
commit83929cce95251cc77e5659bf493bd424ae0e7a67 (patch)
treef781b56f915b5f0e39f49496e9ebc683a0bdab7a /kernel
parent10b9dd56860e93f11cd352e8c75a33357b80b70b (diff)
sched/autogroup: Fix 64-bit kernel nice level adjustment
Michael Kerrisk reported: > Regarding the previous paragraph... My tests indicate > that writing *any* value to the autogroup [nice priority level] > file causes the task group to get a lower priority. Because autogroup didn't call the then meaningless scale_load()... Autogroup nice level adjustment has been broken ever since load resolution was increased for 64-bit kernels. Use scale_load() to scale group weight. Michael Kerrisk tested this patch to fix the problem: > Applied and tested against 4.9-rc6 on an Intel u7 (4 cores). > Test setup: > > Terminal window 1: running 40 CPU burner jobs > Terminal window 2: running 40 CPU burner jobs > Terminal window 1: running 1 CPU burner job > > Demonstrated that: > * Writing "0" to the autogroup file for TW1 now causes no change > to the rate at which the process on the terminal consume CPU. > * Writing -20 to the autogroup file for TW1 caused those processes > to get the lion's share of CPU while TW2 TW3 get a tiny amount. > * Writing -20 to the autogroup files for TW1 and TW3 allowed the > process on TW3 to get as much CPU as it was getting as when > the autogroup nice values for both terminals were 0. Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479897217.4306.6.camel@gmx.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/auto_group.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/auto_group.c b/kernel/sched/auto_group.c
index f1c8fd566246..da39489d2d80 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/auto_group.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/auto_group.c
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ int proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice(struct task_struct *p, int nice)
{
static unsigned long next = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
struct autogroup *ag;
+ unsigned long shares;
int err;
if (nice < MIN_NICE || nice > MAX_NICE)
@@ -230,9 +231,10 @@ int proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice(struct task_struct *p, int nice)
next = HZ / 10 + jiffies;
ag = autogroup_task_get(p);
+ shares = scale_load(sched_prio_to_weight[nice + 20]);
down_write(&ag->lock);
- err = sched_group_set_shares(ag->tg, sched_prio_to_weight[nice + 20]);
+ err = sched_group_set_shares(ag->tg, shares);
if (!err)
ag->nice = nice;
up_write(&ag->lock);