Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Major changes:

   - Reworked CPU capacity code, for better SMP load balancing on
     systems with assymetric CPUs. (Vincent Guittot, Morten Rasmussen)

   - Reworked RT task SMP balancing to be push based instead of pull
     based, to reduce latencies on large CPU count systems. (Steven
     Rostedt)

   - SCHED_DEADLINE support updates and fixes. (Juri Lelli)

   - SCHED_DEADLINE task migration support during CPU hotplug. (Wanpeng Li)

   - x86 mwait-idle optimizations and fixes. (Mike Galbraith, Len Brown)

   - sched/numa improvements. (Rik van Riel)

   - various cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
  sched/core: Drop debugging leftover trace_printk call
  sched/deadline: Support DL task migration during CPU hotplug
  sched/core: Check for available DL bandwidth in cpuset_cpu_inactive()
  sched/deadline: Always enqueue on previous rq when dl_task_timer() fires
  sched/core: Remove unused argument from init_[rt|dl]_rq()
  sched/deadline: Fix rt runtime corruption when dl fails its global constraints
  sched/deadline: Avoid a superfluous check
  sched: Improve load balancing in the presence of idle CPUs
  sched: Optimize freq invariant accounting
  sched: Move CFS tasks to CPUs with higher capacity
  sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING for SMT level
  sched: Remove unused struct sched_group_capacity::capacity_orig
  sched: Replace capacity_factor by usage
  sched: Calculate CPU's usage statistic and put it into struct sg_lb_stats::group_usage
  sched: Add struct rq::cpu_capacity_orig
  sched: Make scale_rt invariant with frequency
  sched: Make sched entity usage tracking scale-invariant
  sched: Remove frequency scaling from cpu_capacity
  sched: Track group sched_entity usage contributions
  sched: Add sched_avg::utilization_avg_contrib
  ...

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h
index 90284d117fe6..91e33cd485f6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/features.h
@@ -56,6 +56,19 @@ SCHED_FEAT(NONTASK_CAPACITY, true)
  */
 SCHED_FEAT(TTWU_QUEUE, true)
 
+#ifdef HAVE_RT_PUSH_IPI
+/*
+ * In order to avoid a thundering herd attack of CPUs that are
+ * lowering their priorities at the same time, and there being
+ * a single CPU that has an RT task that can migrate and is waiting
+ * to run, where the other CPUs will try to take that CPUs
+ * rq lock and possibly create a large contention, sending an
+ * IPI to that CPU and let that CPU push the RT task to where
+ * it should go may be a better scenario.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(RT_PUSH_IPI, true)
+#endif
+
 SCHED_FEAT(FORCE_SD_OVERLAP, false)
 SCHED_FEAT(RT_RUNTIME_SHARE, true)
 SCHED_FEAT(LB_MIN, false)