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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2023-11-04 13:59:21 +0300 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2023-11-15 11:57:51 +0300 |
| commit | 63ba8422f876e32ee564ea95da9a7313b13ff0a1 (patch) | |
| tree | d121359e9386adb64a5538b43ead02166d78cb7b /kernel/sched/sched.h | |
| parent | 2f7a0f58948d8231236e2facecc500f1930fb996 (diff) | |
| download | linux-63ba8422f876e32ee564ea95da9a7313b13ff0a1.tar.xz | |
sched/deadline: Introduce deadline servers
Low priority tasks (e.g., SCHED_OTHER) can suffer starvation if tasks
with higher priority (e.g., SCHED_FIFO) monopolize CPU(s).
RT Throttling has been introduced a while ago as a (mostly debug)
countermeasure one can utilize to reserve some CPU time for low priority
tasks (usually background type of work, e.g. workqueues, timers, etc.).
It however has its own problems (see documentation) and the undesired
effect of unconditionally throttling FIFO tasks even when no lower
priority activity needs to run (there are mechanisms to fix this issue
as well, but, again, with their own problems).
Introduce deadline servers to service low priority tasks needs under
starvation conditions. Deadline servers are built extending SCHED_DEADLINE
implementation to allow 2-level scheduling (a sched_deadline entity
becomes a container for lower priority scheduling entities).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4968601859d920335cf85822eb573a5f179f04b8.1699095159.git.bristot@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/sched.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/sched.h | 27 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h index 1cda787172f0..8a70d51ffa33 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h @@ -313,6 +313,33 @@ extern bool dl_param_changed(struct task_struct *p, const struct sched_attr *att extern int dl_cpuset_cpumask_can_shrink(const struct cpumask *cur, const struct cpumask *trial); extern int dl_bw_check_overflow(int cpu); +/* + * SCHED_DEADLINE supports servers (nested scheduling) with the following + * interface: + * + * dl_se::rq -- runqueue we belong to. + * + * dl_se::server_has_tasks() -- used on bandwidth enforcement; we 'stop' the + * server when it runs out of tasks to run. + * + * dl_se::server_pick() -- nested pick_next_task(); we yield the period if this + * returns NULL. + * + * dl_server_update() -- called from update_curr_common(), propagates runtime + * to the server. + * + * dl_server_start() + * dl_server_stop() -- start/stop the server when it has (no) tasks. + * + * dl_server_init() -- initializes the server. + */ +extern void dl_server_update(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, s64 delta_exec); +extern void dl_server_start(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se); +extern void dl_server_stop(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se); +extern void dl_server_init(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, struct rq *rq, + dl_server_has_tasks_f has_tasks, + dl_server_pick_f pick); + #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED struct cfs_rq; |