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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/core.c | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/sched.h | 7 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index d591db1f2d6d..aa3f97869217 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -7370,6 +7370,9 @@ int in_sched_functions(unsigned long addr) */ struct task_group root_task_group; LIST_HEAD(task_groups); + +/* Cacheline aligned slab cache for task_group */ +static struct kmem_cache *task_group_cache __read_mostly; #endif DECLARE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, load_balance_mask); @@ -7427,11 +7430,12 @@ void __init sched_init(void) #endif /* CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED */ #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED + task_group_cache = KMEM_CACHE(task_group, 0); + list_add(&root_task_group.list, &task_groups); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&root_task_group.children); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&root_task_group.siblings); autogroup_init(&init_task); - #endif /* CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED */ for_each_possible_cpu(i) { @@ -7712,7 +7716,7 @@ static void free_sched_group(struct task_group *tg) free_fair_sched_group(tg); free_rt_sched_group(tg); autogroup_free(tg); - kfree(tg); + kmem_cache_free(task_group_cache, tg); } /* allocate runqueue etc for a new task group */ @@ -7720,7 +7724,7 @@ struct task_group *sched_create_group(struct task_group *parent) { struct task_group *tg; - tg = kzalloc(sizeof(*tg), GFP_KERNEL); + tg = kmem_cache_alloc(task_group_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); if (!tg) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h index 472cd142e4f4..a5a6b3e60868 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h @@ -248,7 +248,12 @@ struct task_group { unsigned long shares; #ifdef CONFIG_SMP - atomic_long_t load_avg; + /* + * load_avg can be heavily contended at clock tick time, so put + * it in its own cacheline separated from the fields above which + * will also be accessed at each tick. + */ + atomic_long_t load_avg ____cacheline_aligned; #endif #endif |