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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpusets.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cpuset.c | 89 |
2 files changed, 92 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index 2f8f24eaefd9..ad944c060312 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ mems_allowed vector. If a cpuset is cpu or mem exclusive, no other cpuset, other than a direct ancestor or descendent, may share any of the same CPUs or Memory Nodes. +A cpuset that is cpu exclusive has a sched domain associated with it. +The sched domain consists of all cpus in the current cpuset that are not +part of any exclusive child cpusets. +This ensures that the scheduler load balacing code only balances +against the cpus that are in the sched domain as defined above and not +all of the cpus in the system. This removes any overhead due to +load balancing code trying to pull tasks outside of the cpu exclusive +cpuset only to be prevented by the tasks' cpus_allowed mask. User level code may create and destroy cpusets by name in the cpuset virtual file system, manage the attributes and permissions of these @@ -84,6 +92,9 @@ This can be especially valuable on: and a database), or * NUMA systems running large HPC applications with demanding performance characteristics. + * Also cpu_exclusive cpusets are useful for servers running orthogonal + workloads such as RT applications requiring low latency and HPC + applications that are throughput sensitive These subsets, or "soft partitions" must be able to be dynamically adjusted, as the job mix changes, without impacting other concurrently @@ -125,6 +136,8 @@ Cpusets extends these two mechanisms as follows: - A cpuset may be marked exclusive, which ensures that no other cpuset (except direct ancestors and descendents) may contain any overlapping CPUs or Memory Nodes. + Also a cpu_exclusive cpuset would be associated with a sched + domain. - You can list all the tasks (by pid) attached to any cpuset. The implementation of cpusets requires a few, simple hooks @@ -136,6 +149,9 @@ into the rest of the kernel, none in performance critical paths: allowed in that tasks cpuset. - in sched.c migrate_all_tasks(), to keep migrating tasks within the CPUs allowed by their cpuset, if possible. + - in sched.c, a new API partition_sched_domains for handling + sched domain changes associated with cpu_exclusive cpusets + and related changes in both sched.c and arch/ia64/kernel/domain.c - in the mbind and set_mempolicy system calls, to mask the requested Memory Nodes by what's allowed in that tasks cpuset. - in page_alloc, to restrict memory to allowed nodes. diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c index 79dd929f4084..984c0bf3807f 100644 --- a/kernel/cpuset.c +++ b/kernel/cpuset.c @@ -595,10 +595,62 @@ static int validate_change(const struct cpuset *cur, const struct cpuset *trial) return 0; } +/* + * For a given cpuset cur, partition the system as follows + * a. All cpus in the parent cpuset's cpus_allowed that are not part of any + * exclusive child cpusets + * b. All cpus in the current cpuset's cpus_allowed that are not part of any + * exclusive child cpusets + * Build these two partitions by calling partition_sched_domains + * + * Call with cpuset_sem held. May nest a call to the + * lock_cpu_hotplug()/unlock_cpu_hotplug() pair. + */ +static void update_cpu_domains(struct cpuset *cur) +{ + struct cpuset *c, *par = cur->parent; + cpumask_t pspan, cspan; + + if (par == NULL || cpus_empty(cur->cpus_allowed)) + return; + + /* + * Get all cpus from parent's cpus_allowed not part of exclusive + * children + */ + pspan = par->cpus_allowed; + list_for_each_entry(c, &par->children, sibling) { + if (is_cpu_exclusive(c)) + cpus_andnot(pspan, pspan, c->cpus_allowed); + } + if (is_removed(cur) || !is_cpu_exclusive(cur)) { + cpus_or(pspan, pspan, cur->cpus_allowed); + if (cpus_equal(pspan, cur->cpus_allowed)) + return; + cspan = CPU_MASK_NONE; + } else { + if (cpus_empty(pspan)) + return; + cspan = cur->cpus_allowed; + /* + * Get all cpus from current cpuset's cpus_allowed not part + * of exclusive children + */ + list_for_each_entry(c, &cur->children, sibling) { + if (is_cpu_exclusive(c)) + cpus_andnot(cspan, cspan, c->cpus_allowed); + } + } + + lock_cpu_hotplug(); + partition_sched_domains(&pspan, &cspan); + unlock_cpu_hotplug(); +} + static int update_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, char *buf) { struct cpuset trialcs; - int retval; + int retval, cpus_unchanged; trialcs = *cs; retval = cpulist_parse(buf, trialcs.cpus_allowed); @@ -608,9 +660,13 @@ static int update_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, char *buf) if (cpus_empty(trialcs.cpus_allowed)) return -ENOSPC; retval = validate_change(cs, &trialcs); - if (retval == 0) - cs->cpus_allowed = trialcs.cpus_allowed; - return retval; + if (retval < 0) + return retval; + cpus_unchanged = cpus_equal(cs->cpus_allowed, trialcs.cpus_allowed); + cs->cpus_allowed = trialcs.cpus_allowed; + if (is_cpu_exclusive(cs) && !cpus_unchanged) + update_cpu_domains(cs); + return 0; } static int update_nodemask(struct cpuset *cs, char *buf) @@ -646,7 +702,7 @@ static int update_flag(cpuset_flagbits_t bit, struct cpuset *cs, char *buf) { int turning_on; struct cpuset trialcs; - int err; + int err, cpu_exclusive_changed; turning_on = (simple_strtoul(buf, NULL, 10) != 0); @@ -657,13 +713,18 @@ static int update_flag(cpuset_flagbits_t bit, struct cpuset *cs, char *buf) clear_bit(bit, &trialcs.flags); err = validate_change(cs, &trialcs); - if (err == 0) { - if (turning_on) - set_bit(bit, &cs->flags); - else - clear_bit(bit, &cs->flags); - } - return err; + if (err < 0) + return err; + cpu_exclusive_changed = + (is_cpu_exclusive(cs) != is_cpu_exclusive(&trialcs)); + if (turning_on) + set_bit(bit, &cs->flags); + else + clear_bit(bit, &cs->flags); + + if (cpu_exclusive_changed) + update_cpu_domains(cs); + return 0; } static int attach_task(struct cpuset *cs, char *buf) @@ -1309,12 +1370,14 @@ static int cpuset_rmdir(struct inode *unused_dir, struct dentry *dentry) up(&cpuset_sem); return -EBUSY; } - spin_lock(&cs->dentry->d_lock); parent = cs->parent; set_bit(CS_REMOVED, &cs->flags); + if (is_cpu_exclusive(cs)) + update_cpu_domains(cs); list_del(&cs->sibling); /* delete my sibling from parent->children */ if (list_empty(&parent->children)) check_for_release(parent); + spin_lock(&cs->dentry->d_lock); d = dget(cs->dentry); cs->dentry = NULL; spin_unlock(&d->d_lock); |