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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-18 08:27:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-18 08:27:54 -0700
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Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (49 commits) stop_machine: Move local variable closer to the usage site in cpu_stop_cpu_callback() sched, wait: Use wrapper functions sched: Remove a stale comment ondemand: Make the iowait-is-busy time a sysfs tunable ondemand: Solve a big performance issue by counting IOWAIT time as busy sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us() sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate field sched: Fold updating of the last_update_time_info into update_ts_time_stats() sched: Update the idle statistics in get_cpu_idle_time_us() sched: Introduce a function to update the idle statistics sched: Add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us() cpu_stop: add dummy implementation for UP sched: Remove rq argument to the tracepoints rcu: need barrier() in UP synchronize_sched_expedited() sched: correctly place paranioa memory barriers in synchronize_sched_expedited() sched: kill paranoia check in synchronize_sched_expedited() sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stop stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop cpu_stop: implement stop_cpu[s]() sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/torture.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt54
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt20
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 77 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
index 0e50bc2aa1e2..5d9016795fd8 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
@@ -182,16 +182,6 @@ Similarly, sched_expedited RCU provides the following:
sched_expedited-torture: Reader Pipe: 12660320201 95875 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
sched_expedited-torture: Reader Batch: 12660424885 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
sched_expedited-torture: Free-Block Circulation: 1090795 1090795 1090794 1090793 1090792 1090791 1090790 1090789 1090788 1090787 0
- state: -1 / 0:0 3:0 4:0
-
-As before, the first four lines are similar to those for RCU.
-The last line shows the task-migration state. The first number is
--1 if synchronize_sched_expedited() is idle, -2 if in the process of
-posting wakeups to the migration kthreads, and N when waiting on CPU N.
-Each of the colon-separated fields following the "/" is a CPU:state pair.
-Valid states are "0" for idle, "1" for waiting for quiescent state,
-"2" for passed through quiescent state, and "3" when a race with a
-CPU-hotplug event forces use of the synchronize_sched() primitive.
USAGE
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
index 6f33593e59e2..8239ebbcddce 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ provide fair CPU time to each such task group. For example, it may be
desirable to first provide fair CPU time to each user on the system and then to
each task belonging to a user.
-CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED strives to achieve exactly that. It lets tasks to be
+CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED strives to achieve exactly that. It lets tasks to be
grouped and divides CPU time fairly among such groups.
CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED permits to group real-time (i.e., SCHED_FIFO and
@@ -220,38 +220,11 @@ SCHED_RR) tasks.
CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED permits to group CFS (i.e., SCHED_NORMAL and
SCHED_BATCH) tasks.
-At present, there are two (mutually exclusive) mechanisms to group tasks for
-CPU bandwidth control purposes:
-
- - Based on user id (CONFIG_USER_SCHED)
-
- With this option, tasks are grouped according to their user id.
-
- - Based on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem (CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED)
-
- This options needs CONFIG_CGROUPS to be defined, and lets the administrator
+ These options need CONFIG_CGROUPS to be defined, and let the administrator
create arbitrary groups of tasks, using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. See
Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more information about this filesystem.
-Only one of these options to group tasks can be chosen and not both.
-
-When CONFIG_USER_SCHED is defined, a directory is created in sysfs for each new
-user and a "cpu_share" file is added in that directory.
-
- # cd /sys/kernel/uids
- # cat 512/cpu_share # Display user 512's CPU share
- 1024
- # echo 2048 > 512/cpu_share # Modify user 512's CPU share
- # cat 512/cpu_share # Display user 512's CPU share
- 2048
- #
-
-CPU bandwidth between two users is divided in the ratio of their CPU shares.
-For example: if you would like user "root" to get twice the bandwidth of user
-"guest," then set the cpu_share for both the users such that "root"'s cpu_share
-is twice "guest"'s cpu_share.
-
-When CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED is defined, a "cpu.shares" file is created for each
+When CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is defined, a "cpu.shares" file is created for each
group created using the pseudo filesystem. See example steps below to create
task groups and modify their CPU share using the "cgroups" pseudo filesystem.
@@ -273,24 +246,3 @@ task groups and modify their CPU share using the "cgroups" pseudo filesystem.
# #Launch gmplayer (or your favourite movie player)
# echo <movie_player_pid> > multimedia/tasks
-
-8. Implementation note: user namespaces
-
-User namespaces are intended to be hierarchical. But they are currently
-only partially implemented. Each of those has ramifications for CFS.
-
-First, since user namespaces are hierarchical, the /sys/kernel/uids
-presentation is inadequate. Eventually we will likely want to use sysfs
-tagging to provide private views of /sys/kernel/uids within each user
-namespace.
-
-Second, the hierarchical nature is intended to support completely
-unprivileged use of user namespaces. So if using user groups, then
-we want the users in a user namespace to be children of the user
-who created it.
-
-That is currently unimplemented. So instead, every user in a new
-user namespace will receive 1024 shares just like any user in the
-initial user namespace. Note that at the moment creation of a new
-user namespace requires each of CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SETUID, and
-CAP_SETGID.
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
index 86eabe6c3419..605b0d40329d 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
@@ -126,23 +126,12 @@ priority!
2.3 Basis for grouping tasks
----------------------------
-There are two compile-time settings for allocating CPU bandwidth. These are
-configured using the "Basis for grouping tasks" multiple choice menu under
-General setup > Group CPU Scheduler:
-
-a. CONFIG_USER_SCHED (aka "Basis for grouping tasks" = "user id")
-
-This lets you use the virtual files under
-"/sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_rt_runtime_us" to control he CPU time reserved for
-each user .
-
-The other option is:
-
-.o CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED (aka "Basis for grouping tasks" = "Control groups")
+Enabling CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED lets you explicitly allocate real
+CPU bandwidth to task groups.
This uses the /cgroup virtual file system and
"/cgroup/<cgroup>/cpu.rt_runtime_us" to control the CPU time reserved for each
-control group instead.
+control group.
For more information on working with control groups, you should read
Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt as well.
@@ -161,8 +150,7 @@ For now, this can be simplified to just the following (but see Future plans):
===============
There is work in progress to make the scheduling period for each group
-("/sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_rt_period_us" or
-"/cgroup/<cgroup>/cpu.rt_period_us" respectively) configurable as well.
+("/cgroup/<cgroup>/cpu.rt_period_us") configurable as well.
The constraint on the period is that a subgroup must have a smaller or
equal period to its parent. But realistically its not very useful _yet_