sched: update shares on wakeup

We found that the affine wakeup code needs rather accurate load figures
to be effective. The trouble is that updating the load figures is fairly
expensive with group scheduling. Therefore ratelimit the updating.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 1cff969f6646..62db0891025a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -778,6 +778,12 @@ late_initcall(sched_init_debug);
 const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_nr_migrate = 32;
 
 /*
+ * ratelimit for updating the group shares.
+ * default: 0.5ms
+ */
+const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_shares_ratelimit = 500000;
+
+/*
  * period over which we measure -rt task cpu usage in us.
  * default: 1s
  */
@@ -1590,7 +1596,13 @@ tg_nop(struct task_group *tg, int cpu, struct sched_domain *sd)
 
 static void update_shares(struct sched_domain *sd)
 {
-	walk_tg_tree(tg_nop, tg_shares_up, 0, sd);
+	u64 now = cpu_clock(raw_smp_processor_id());
+	s64 elapsed = now - sd->last_update;
+
+	if (elapsed >= (s64)(u64)sysctl_sched_shares_ratelimit) {
+		sd->last_update = now;
+		walk_tg_tree(tg_nop, tg_shares_up, 0, sd);
+	}
 }
 
 static void update_shares_locked(struct rq *rq, struct sched_domain *sd)
@@ -2199,6 +2211,22 @@ static int try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state, int sync)
 	if (!sched_feat(SYNC_WAKEUPS))
 		sync = 0;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+	if (sched_feat(LB_WAKEUP_UPDATE)) {
+		struct sched_domain *sd;
+
+		this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+		cpu = task_cpu(p);
+
+		for_each_domain(this_cpu, sd) {
+			if (cpu_isset(cpu, sd->span)) {
+				update_shares(sd);
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+#endif
+
 	smp_wmb();
 	rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
 	old_state = p->state;