[PATCH] sched: consider migration thread with smp nice

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 21:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc1/2.
>6.13-rc1-mm1/

Hi akpm

With your 4 bazillion patches I guess this got missed. It's an add-on 
to the smp-nice series.

Cheers,
Con
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The intermittent scheduling of the migration thread at ultra high priority
makes the smp nice handling see that runqueue as being heavily loaded. The
migration thread itself actually handles the balancing so its influence on
priority balancing should be ignored.

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>

Index: linux-2.6.12-mm1/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-mm1.orig/kernel/sched.c	2005-06-26 17:59:10.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm1/kernel/sched.c	2005-06-26 18:02:01.000000000 +1000
@@ -669,6 +669,31 @@ static inline void dec_prio_bias(runqueu
 {
 	rq->prio_bias -= MAX_PRIO - prio;
 }
+
+static inline void inc_nr_running(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq)
+{
+	rq->nr_running++;
+	if (rt_task(p)) {
+		if (p != rq->migration_thread)
+			/*
+			 * The migration thread does the actual balancing. Do
+			 * not bias by its priority as the ultra high priority
+			 * will skew balancing adversely.
+			 */
+			inc_prio_bias(rq, p->prio);
+	} else
+		inc_prio_bias(rq, p->static_prio);
+}
+
+static inline void dec_nr_running(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq)
+{
+	rq->nr_running--;
+	if (rt_task(p)) {
+		if (p != rq->migration_thread)
+			dec_prio_bias(rq, p->prio);
+	} else
+		dec_prio_bias(rq, p->static_prio);
+}
 #else
 static inline void inc_prio_bias(runqueue_t *rq, int prio)
 {
@@ -677,25 +702,17 @@ static inline void inc_prio_bias(runqueu
 static inline void dec_prio_bias(runqueue_t *rq, int prio)
 {
 }
-#endif
 
 static inline void inc_nr_running(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq)
 {
 	rq->nr_running++;
-	if (rt_task(p))
-		inc_prio_bias(rq, p->prio);
-	else
-		inc_prio_bias(rq, p->static_prio);
 }
 
 static inline void dec_nr_running(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq)
 {
 	rq->nr_running--;
-	if (rt_task(p))
-		dec_prio_bias(rq, p->prio);
-	else
-		dec_prio_bias(rq, p->static_prio);
 }
+#endif
 
 /*
  * __activate_task - move a task to the runqueue.

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