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    sched: add RT-balance cpu-weight · 73fe6aae
    Gregory Haskins authored
    Some RT tasks (particularly kthreads) are bound to one specific CPU.
    It is fairly common for two or more bound tasks to get queued up at the
    same time.  Consider, for instance, softirq_timer and softirq_sched.  A
    timer goes off in an ISR which schedules softirq_thread to run at RT50.
    Then the timer handler determines that it's time to smp-rebalance the
    system so it schedules softirq_sched to run.  So we are in a situation
    where we have two RT50 tasks queued, and the system will go into
    rt-overload condition to request other CPUs for help.
    
    This causes two problems in the current code:
    
    1) If a high-priority bound task and a low-priority unbounded task queue
       up behind the running task, we will fail to ever relocate the unbounded
       task because we terminate the search on the first unmovable task.
    
    2) We spend precious futile cycles in the fast-path trying to pull
       overloaded tasks over.  It is therefore optimial to strive to avoid the
       overhead all together if we can cheaply detect the condition before
       overload even occurs.
    
    This patch tries to achieve this optimization by utilizing the hamming
    weight of the task->cpus_allowed mask.  A weight of 1 indicates that
    the task cannot be migrated.  We will then utilize this information to
    skip non-migratable tasks and to eliminate uncessary rebalance attempts.
    
    We introduce a per-rq variable to count the number of migratable tasks
    that are currently running.  We only go into overload if we have more
    than one rt task, AND at least one of them is migratable.
    
    In addition, we introduce a per-task variable to cache the cpus_allowed
    weight, since the hamming calculation is probably relatively expensive.
    We only update the cached value when the mask is updated which should be
    relatively infrequent, especially compared to scheduling frequency
    in the fast path.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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