On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 05:37:54PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
>
> In case of undercomitted scenarios, especially in large guests
> yield_to overhead is significantly high. when run queue length of
> source and target is one, take an opportunity to bail out and return
> -ESRCH. This return condition can be further exploited to quickly come
> out of PLE handler.
>
> (History: Raghavendra initially worked on break out of kvm ple handler upon
> seeing source runqueue length = 1, but it had to export rq length).
> Peter came up with the elegant idea of return -ESRCH in scheduler core.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Raghavendra, Checking the rq length of target vcpu condition added.(thanks
> Avi)
> Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <sri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>
> kernel/sched/core.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 2d8927f..fc219a5 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -4289,7 +4289,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(yield);
> * It's the caller's job to ensure that the target task struct
> * can't go away on us before we can do any checks.
> *
> - * Returns true if we indeed boosted the target task.
> + * Returns:
> + * true (>0) if we indeed boosted the target task.
> + * false (0) if we failed to boost the target.
> + * -ESRCH if there's no task to yield to.
> */
> bool __sched yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt)
> {
> @@ -4303,6 +4306,15 @@ bool __sched yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool
> preempt)
>
> again:
> p_rq = task_rq(p);
> + /*
> + * If we're the only runnable task on the rq and target rq also
> + * has only one task, there's absolutely no point in yielding.
> + */
> + if (rq->nr_running == 1 && p_rq->nr_running == 1) {
> + yielded = -ESRCH;
> + goto out_irq;
> + }
> +
> double_rq_lock(rq, p_rq);
> while (task_rq(p) != p_rq) {
> double_rq_unlock(rq, p_rq);
> @@ -4310,13 +4322,13 @@ again:
> }
>
> if (!curr->sched_class->yield_to_task)
> - goto out;
> + goto out_unlock;
>
> if (curr->sched_class != p->sched_class)
> - goto out;
> + goto out_unlock;
>
> if (task_running(p_rq, p) || p->state)
> - goto out;
> + goto out_unlock;
>
> yielded = curr->sched_class->yield_to_task(rq, p, preempt);
> if (yielded) {
> @@ -4329,11 +4341,12 @@ again:
> resched_task(p_rq->curr);
> }
>
> -out:
> +out_unlock:
> double_rq_unlock(rq, p_rq);
> +out_irq:
> local_irq_restore(flags);
>
> - if (yielded)
> + if (yielded > 0)
> schedule();
>
> return yielded;
>
Acked-by: Andrew Jones <drjo...@redhat.com>
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