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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [git pull request] scheduler updates
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:12:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070824141215.GA24403@elte.hu> (raw)

Linus, please pull the latest scheduler git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched.git

It includes 8 commits, 3 of which are important: the most important 
change is a bugfix to the new task startup penalty code. This could 
explain the task-startup unpredictability problem reported by Al Boldi.

Then there's also a change/tweak that increases the default granularity: 
it's still well below human perception so should not be noticeable, but 
servers win a bit from less preemption of CPU-bound tasks. (this is also 
the first step towards eliminating HZ from the granularity default 
calculation.)

Plus a bonus balance inconsistency has been fixed: the previous logic 
was slightly inflatory of sleeper wait-runtime, without a 
counter-balance on runners. (I found no noticeable or measurable impact, 
other than a ~5% improvement in hackbench performance [due to less 
preemption scheduling] and a slightly nicer looking /proc/sched_debug 
output when there are lots of sleepers.)

Five other, low-impact changes: a group-scheduling fixlet from Bruce 
Ashfield, two nice simplifications from Peter Zijlstra to the 
bonus-balance code (which eliminate a 64-bit multiplication and shrink 
the code), a QOI improvement from Dmitry Adamushko to RR RT task 
preemption [not strictly required for .23 but this has been in my tree 
for some time already with no ill effects and the code is obviously 
correct] and a dead code elimination fix from Sven-Thorsten Dietrich.

Test-built and test-booted on x86-32 and x86-64, and it passed a few 
dozen "make randconfig" builds as well.

	Ingo

------------------>
Bruce Ashfield (1):
      sched: CONFIG_SCHED_GROUP_FAIR=y fixlet

Dmitry Adamushko (1):
      sched: optimize task_tick_rt() a bit

Ingo Molnar (3):
      sched: increase default granularity a bit
      sched: tidy up and simplify the bonus balance
      sched: fix startup penalty calculation

Peter Zijlstra (2):
      sched: simplify bonus calculation #1
      sched: simplify bonus calculation #2

Sven-Thorsten Dietrich (1):
      sched: simplify can_migrate_task()

 sched.c      |    6 ------
 sched_fair.c |   26 +++++++++++++++-----------
 sched_rt.c   |   11 ++++++++---
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)


             reply	other threads:[~2007-08-24 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-24 14:12 Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-08-24 18:09 ` [git pull request] scheduler updates Linus Torvalds
2007-08-24 19:37   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-25 17:23     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-25 20:43       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-25 21:20       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-31  1:58   ` Roman Zippel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-28 11:32 Ingo Molnar
2007-08-28 14:11 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-08-28 14:46   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-28 14:55     ` Mike Galbraith
2007-08-23 16:07 Ingo Molnar
2007-08-12 16:32 Ingo Molnar
2007-08-10 21:22 Ingo Molnar
2007-08-08 20:30 Ingo Molnar
2007-08-02 16:08 Ingo Molnar
2007-07-26 12:08 Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 16:50 Ingo Molnar
2007-07-16  7:53 Ingo Molnar
2007-07-11 19:38 Ingo Molnar

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