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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-09-22 13:53:15 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-10-18 18:41:58 +0200
commit34f971f6f7988be4d014eec3e3526bee6d007ffa (patch)
treea662e0701f81f019418b55aa1354f833277b9c40 /kernel/stop_machine.c
parent4924627423d5e286136ad2520f5be536345ae590 (diff)
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sched: Create special class for stop/migrate work
In order to separate the stop/migrate work thread from the SCHED_FIFO implementation, create a special class for it that is of higher priority than SCHED_FIFO itself. This currently solves a problem where cpu-hotplug consumes so much cpu-time that the SCHED_FIFO class gets throttled, but has the bandwidth replenishment timer pending on the now dead cpu. It is also required for when we add the planned deadline scheduling class above SCHED_FIFO, as the stop/migrate thread still needs to transcent those tasks. Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1285165776.2275.1022.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/stop_machine.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/stop_machine.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
index 4372ccb25127..090c28812ce1 100644
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
+++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -287,11 +287,12 @@ repeat:
goto repeat;
}
+extern void sched_set_stop_task(int cpu, struct task_struct *stop);
+
/* manage stopper for a cpu, mostly lifted from sched migration thread mgmt */
static int __cpuinit cpu_stop_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
{
- struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO - 1 };
unsigned int cpu = (unsigned long)hcpu;
struct cpu_stopper *stopper = &per_cpu(cpu_stopper, cpu);
struct task_struct *p;
@@ -304,13 +305,13 @@ static int __cpuinit cpu_stop_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
cpu);
if (IS_ERR(p))
return NOTIFY_BAD;
- sched_setscheduler_nocheck(p, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
get_task_struct(p);
+ kthread_bind(p, cpu);
+ sched_set_stop_task(cpu, p);
stopper->thread = p;
break;
case CPU_ONLINE:
- kthread_bind(stopper->thread, cpu);
/* strictly unnecessary, as first user will wake it */
wake_up_process(stopper->thread);
/* mark enabled */
@@ -325,6 +326,7 @@ static int __cpuinit cpu_stop_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
{
struct cpu_stop_work *work;
+ sched_set_stop_task(cpu, NULL);
/* kill the stopper */
kthread_stop(stopper->thread);
/* drain remaining works */