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authorCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>2007-10-18 23:40:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-19 11:53:44 -0700
commit470fd646444c65a5d062a371f5ec8dcedee61239 (patch)
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hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset
When a cpu is disabled, move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called for tasks that have been running on that cpu. Currently, such a task is migrated: 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed 2) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed It is typical of a multithreaded application running on a large NUMA system to have its tasks confined to a cpuset so as to cluster them near the memory that they share. Furthermore, it is typical to explicitly place such a task on a specific cpu in that cpuset. And in that case the task's cpus_allowed includes only a single cpu. This patch would insert a preference to migrate such a task to some cpu within its cpuset (and set its cpus_allowed to its entire cpuset). With this patch, migrate the task to: 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed 2) to any online cpu within the task's cpuset 3) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed In order to do this, move_task_off_dead_cpu() must make a call to cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(), a new subset of cpuset_cpus_allowed(), that will not block. (name change - per Oleg's suggestion) Calls are made to cpuset_lock() and cpuset_unlock() in migration_call() to set the cpuset mutex during the whole migrate_live_tasks() and migrate_dead_tasks() procedure. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [pj@sgi.com: Fix indentation and spacing] Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cpuset.c')
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index fa31cb9f9898..50f5dc463688 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -1818,10 +1818,23 @@ cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *tsk)
cpumask_t mask;
mutex_lock(&callback_mutex);
+ mask = cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(tsk);
+ mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
+
+ return mask;
+}
+
+/**
+ * cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked - return cpus_allowed mask from a tasks cpuset.
+ * Must be called with callback_mutex held.
+ **/
+cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ cpumask_t mask;
+
task_lock(tsk);
guarantee_online_cpus(task_cs(tsk), &mask);
task_unlock(tsk);
- mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
return mask;
}