On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 09:52:24 -0800
tip-bot for Tim Chen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Commit-ID:  80e3d87b2c5582db0ab5e39610ce3707d97ba409
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/80e3d87b2c5582db0ab5e39610ce3707d97ba409
> Author:     Tim Chen <[email protected]>
> AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:38:12 -0800
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> CommitDate: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:38:49 +0100
> 
> sched/rt: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible 
> target
> 
> This patch adds checks that prevens futile attempts to move rt tasks
> to a CPU with active tasks of equal or higher priority.
> 
> This reduces run queue lock contention and improves the performance of
> a well known OLTP benchmark by 0.7%.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
> Cc: Shawn Bohrer <[email protected]>
> Cc: Suruchi Kadu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Doug Nelson<[email protected]>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> Link: 
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

I see this has been added to mainline already. I think this should go
to stable as well. As far back as it applies. I'll even add this to the
stable-rt if need be. But I rather pull it into stable-rt via the
stable branches.

Thanks,

-- Steve

> ---
>  kernel/sched/rt.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
> index 6725e3c..f4d4b07 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
> @@ -1340,7 +1340,12 @@ select_task_rq_rt(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int 
> sd_flag, int flags)
>            curr->prio <= p->prio)) {
>               int target = find_lowest_rq(p);
>  
> -             if (target != -1)
> +             /*
> +              * Don't bother moving it if the destination CPU is
> +              * not running a lower priority task.
> +              */
> +             if (target != -1 &&
> +                 p->prio < cpu_rq(target)->rt.highest_prio.curr)
>                       cpu = target;
>       }
>       rcu_read_unlock();
> @@ -1617,6 +1622,16 @@ static struct rq *find_lock_lowest_rq(struct 
> task_struct *task, struct rq *rq)
>  
>               lowest_rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
>  
> +             if (lowest_rq->rt.highest_prio.curr <= task->prio) {
> +                     /*
> +                      * Target rq has tasks of equal or higher priority,
> +                      * retrying does not release any lock and is unlikely
> +                      * to yield a different result.
> +                      */
> +                     lowest_rq = NULL;
> +                     break;
> +             }
> +
>               /* if the prio of this runqueue changed, try again */
>               if (double_lock_balance(rq, lowest_rq)) {
>                       /*

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