sched: Implement hierarchical task accounting for SCHED_OTHER

Introduce hierarchical task accounting for the group scheduling case in CFS, as
well as promoting the responsibility for maintaining rq->nr_running to the
scheduling classes.

The primary motivation for this is that with scheduling classes supporting
bandwidth throttling it is possible for entities participating in throttled
sub-trees to not have root visible changes in rq->nr_running across activate
and de-activate operations.  This in turn leads to incorrect idle and
weight-per-task load balance decisions.

This also allows us to make a small fixlet to the fastpath in pick_next_task()
under group scheduling.

Note: this issue also exists with the existing sched_rt throttling mechanism.
This patch does not address that.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184756.878333391@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index cf427bb2b65e..cd1a531ca8ff 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ struct task_group root_task_group;
 /* CFS-related fields in a runqueue */
 struct cfs_rq {
 	struct load_weight load;
-	unsigned long nr_running;
+	unsigned long nr_running, h_nr_running;
 
 	u64 exec_clock;
 	u64 min_vruntime;
@@ -1802,7 +1802,6 @@ static void activate_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 		rq->nr_uninterruptible--;
 
 	enqueue_task(rq, p, flags);
-	inc_nr_running(rq);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1814,7 +1813,6 @@ static void deactivate_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 		rq->nr_uninterruptible++;
 
 	dequeue_task(rq, p, flags);
-	dec_nr_running(rq);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
@@ -4258,7 +4256,7 @@ pick_next_task(struct rq *rq)
 	 * Optimization: we know that if all tasks are in
 	 * the fair class we can call that function directly:
 	 */
-	if (likely(rq->nr_running == rq->cfs.nr_running)) {
+	if (likely(rq->nr_running == rq->cfs.h_nr_running)) {
 		p = fair_sched_class.pick_next_task(rq);
 		if (likely(p))
 			return p;