Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched: move IO scheduling accounting from io_schedule_timeout() to __schedule()

Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-28T19:07:44Z

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 08:27:12PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:58:09PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > @@ -3336,11 +3336,17 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
> > unsigned long *switch_count;
> > struct pin_cookie cookie;
> > struct rq *rq;
> > - int cpu;
> > + int cpu, in_iowait;
> >
> > cpu = smp_processor_id();
> > rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
> > prev = rq->curr;
> > + in_iowait = prev->in_iowait;
> > +
> > + if (in_iowait) {
> > + delayacct_blkio_start();
> > + atomic_inc(&rq->nr_iowait);
> > + }
> >
> > schedule_debug(prev);
> >
> > @@ -3406,6 +3412,11 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
> > }
> >
> > balance_callback(rq);
> > +
> > + if (in_iowait) {
> > + atomic_dec(&rq->nr_iowait);
> > + delayacct_blkio_end();
> > + }
> > }
> >
> > void __noreturn do_task_dead(void)
>
> Urgh, can't say I like this much. It moves two branches into the
> schedule path.
>
> Nor do I really like the idea of having to annotate special mutexes for
> the iowait crap.
>
> I'll think more after KS/LPC etc..

One alternative is to inherit the iowait state of the task we block on.
That'll not get rid of the branches much, but it will remove the new
mutex APIs.