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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-20 12:52:55 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-20 12:52:55 -0800 |
commit | 828cad8ea05d194d8a9452e0793261c2024c23a2 (patch) | |
tree | 0ad7c7e044cdcfe75d78da0b52eb2358d4686e02 /Documentation | |
parent | 60c906bab124a0627fba04c9ca5e61bba4747c0c (diff) | |
parent | bb3bac2ca9a3a5b7fa601781adf70167a0449d75 (diff) |
Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this (fairly busy) cycle were:
- There was a class of scheduler bugs related to forgetting to update
the rq-clock timestamp which can cause weird and hard to debug
problems, so there's a new debug facility for this: which uncovered
a whole lot of bugs which convinced us that we want to keep the
debug facility.
(Peter Zijlstra, Matt Fleming)
- Various cputime related updates: eliminate cputime and use u64
nanoseconds directly, simplify and improve the arch interfaces,
implement delayed accounting more widely, etc. - (Frederic
Weisbecker)
- Move code around for better structure plus cleanups (Ingo Molnar)
- Move IO schedule accounting deeper into the scheduler plus related
changes to improve the situation (Tejun Heo)
- ... plus a round of sched/rt and sched/deadline fixes, plus other
fixes, updats and cleanups"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (85 commits)
sched/core: Remove unlikely() annotation from sched_move_task()
sched/autogroup: Rename auto_group.[ch] to autogroup.[ch]
sched/topology: Split out scheduler topology code from core.c into topology.c
sched/core: Remove unnecessary #include headers
sched/rq_clock: Consolidate the ordering of the rq_clock methods
delayacct: Include <uapi/linux/taskstats.h>
sched/core: Clean up comments
sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds
sched/clock: Add dummy clear_sched_clock_stable() stub function
sched/cputime: Remove generic asm headers
sched/cputime: Remove unused nsec_to_cputime()
s390, sched/cputime: Remove unused cputime definitions
powerpc, sched/cputime: Remove unused cputime definitions
s390, sched/cputime: Make arch_cpu_idle_time() to return nsecs
ia64, sched/cputime: Remove unused cputime definitions
ia64: Convert vtime to use nsec units directly
ia64, sched/cputime: Move the nsecs based cputime headers to the last arch using it
sched/cputime: Remove jiffies based cputime
sched/cputime, vtime: Return nsecs instead of cputime_t to account
sched/cputime: Complete nsec conversion of tick based accounting
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt | 8 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt index 8e37b0ba2c9d..cbc1b46cbf70 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt @@ -408,6 +408,11 @@ CONTENTS * the new scheduling related syscalls that manipulate it, i.e., sched_setattr() and sched_getattr() are implemented. + For debugging purposes, the leftover runtime and absolute deadline of a + SCHED_DEADLINE task can be retrieved through /proc/<pid>/sched (entries + dl.runtime and dl.deadline, both values in ns). A programmatic way to + retrieve these values from production code is under discussion. + 4.3 Default behavior --------------------- @@ -476,6 +481,7 @@ CONTENTS Still missing: + - programmatic way to retrieve current runtime and absolute deadline - refinements to deadline inheritance, especially regarding the possibility of retaining bandwidth isolation among non-interacting tasks. This is being studied from both theoretical and practical points of view, and diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt index a03f0d944fe6..d8fce3e78457 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt @@ -158,11 +158,11 @@ as its prone to starvation without deadline scheduling. Consider two sibling groups A and B; both have 50% bandwidth, but A's period is twice the length of B's. -* group A: period=100000us, runtime=10000us - - this runs for 0.01s once every 0.1s +* group A: period=100000us, runtime=50000us + - this runs for 0.05s once every 0.1s -* group B: period= 50000us, runtime=10000us - - this runs for 0.01s twice every 0.1s (or once every 0.05 sec). +* group B: period= 50000us, runtime=25000us + - this runs for 0.025s twice every 0.1s (or once every 0.05 sec). This means that currently a while (1) loop in A will run for the full period of B and can starve B's tasks (assuming they are of lower priority) for a whole |