[RFC v5 PATCH 0/8] CFS Hard limits - v5

Bharata B Rao
2010-01-05T07:57:35Z

Hi,

This is the v5 post of CFS hard limits. In this patchset, I have
pulled out bandwidth and runtime handling code from RT into sched.c
so that the same code can be used by CFS hard limits.

Also I have addressed the review comments given by Peter Zijlstra for v4.

Changes
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RFC v5:
- Make RT bandwidth and runtime handing code generic and use it in CFS also.
- Remove the *_locked() version from sched_fair.c by simplifying the locking.
This fixes the unlock imbalance bug seen by Jarek Dylag who observed it while
using CFS hard limits with Linux vserver.

RFC v4:
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/17/191
- Reclaim runtimes lent to other cpus when a cpu goes
offline. (Kamalesh Babulal)
- Fixed a few bugs.
- Some cleanups.

RFC v3:
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/9/65
- Till v2, I was updating rq->nr_running when tasks go and come back on
runqueue during throttling and unthrottling. Don't do this.
- With the above change, quite a bit of code simplification is achieved.
Runtime related fields of cfs_rq are now being protected by per cfs_rq
lock instead of per rq lock. With this it looks more similar to rt.
- Remove the control file cpu.cfs_hard_limit which enabled/disabled hard limits
for groups. Now hard limits is enabled by having a non-zero runtime.
- Don't explicitly prevent movement of tasks into throttled groups during
load balancing as throttled entities are anyway prevented from being
enqueued in enqueue_task_fair().
- Moved to 2.6.32-rc6

RFC v2:
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/30/115
- Upgraded to 2.6.31.
- Added CFS runtime borrowing.
- New locking scheme
The hard limit specific fields of cfs_rq (cfs_runtime, cfs_time and
cfs_throttled) were being protected by rq->lock. This simple scheme will
not work when runtime rebalancing is introduced where it will be required
to look at these fields on other CPU's which requires us to acquire
rq->lock of other CPUs. This will not be feasible from update_curr().
Hence introduce a separate lock (rq->runtime_lock) to protect these
fields of all cfs_rq under it.
- Handle the task wakeup in a throttled group correctly.
- Make CFS_HARD_LIMITS dependent on CGROUP_SCHED (Thanks to Andrea Righi)

RFC v1:
- First version of the patches with minimal features was posted at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/25/128

RFC v0:
- The CFS hard limits proposal was first posted at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/4/24

Patches description
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This post has the following patches:

1/8 sched: Rename struct rt_bandwidth to sched_bandwidth
2/8 sched: Make rt bandwidth timer and runtime related code generic
3/8 sched: Bandwidth initialization for fair task groups
4/8 sched: Enforce hard limits by throttling
5/8 sched: Unthrottle the throttled tasks
6/8 sched: Add throttle time statistics to /proc/sched_debug
7/8 sched: CFS runtime borrowing
8/8 sched: Hard limits documentation

Documentation/scheduler/sched-cfs-hard-limits.txt | 48 +
include/linux/sched.h | 6
init/Kconfig | 13
kernel/sched.c | 591 +++++++++++++++++---
kernel/sched_debug.c | 23
kernel/sched_fair.c | 354 +++++++++++
kernel/sched_rt.c | 268 +--------
7 files changed, 964 insertions(+), 339 deletions(-)

Regards,
Bharata.