Hi,
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> I still see the fairtest2 sleeper startup anomaly. Sometimes it starts
> up normally, others the sleeper is a delayed. Seems to require idle
> time to trigger worst case startup delay.
>
> 14854 root 20 0 1568 468 384 R 52 0.0 0:07.50 1 fairtest2
> 14855 root 20 0 1568 112 28 R 45 0.0 0:00.46 1 fairtest2
>
> Everything else still seems fine. Boot-time warnings:
>
> [ 113.504259] audit(1189488395.753:2): audit_pid=5403 old=0 by
> auid=4294967295
> [ 114.077979] IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [ 116.281216] 4,f70355a0(5633,b,d1cef00):
> 32af5bc18d4,31b49210000,f70355a0(5633,b,d1cef00),2
> [ 116.298004] WARNING: at kernel/sched_norm.c:271 verify_queue()
> [ 116.312380] [<c0105188>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
> [ 116.326193] [<c0105d83>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
> [ 116.339270] [<c0105d9b>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18
> [ 116.352199] [<c011e61a>] verify_queue+0x2f8/0x3fb
> [ 116.365406] [<c011e8a3>] enqueue_entity+0x186/0x21b
> [ 116.378571] [<c0123344>] enqueue_task_fair+0x2f/0x31
> [ 116.391545] [<c011d043>] enqueue_task+0xd/0x18
> [ 116.403833] [<c011dffe>] activate_task+0x20/0x2d
> [ 116.416174] [<c0120336>] __migrate_task+0x9a/0xc4
> [ 116.428490] [<c0122d0b>] migration_thread+0x175/0x220
> [ 116.441159] [<c01393f7>] kthread+0x37/0x59
> [ 116.452824] [<c0104dd3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14
> [ 116.465582] =======================
Damn, I forgot that tasks which are reniced or migrate to another cpu
need some more initialization, so the small incremental patch does that.
Thanks again for testing.
bye, Roman
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_norm.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_norm.c 2007-09-11 13:15:00.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_norm.c 2007-09-11 13:13:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -326,11 +326,14 @@ static void update_curr(struct cfs_rq *c
}
static void
-enqueue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
+enqueue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int wakeup)
{
verify_queue(cfs_rq, cfs_rq->curr != se, se);
cfs_rq->time_avg_min = kclock_max(cfs_rq->time_avg_min,
get_time_avg(cfs_rq));
- se->time_norm = kclock_max(cfs_rq->time_avg_min - se->req_weight_inv,
se->time_norm);
+ if (likely(wakeup))
+ se->time_norm = kclock_max(cfs_rq->time_avg_min -
se->req_weight_inv, se->time_norm);
+ else
+ se->time_norm = cfs_rq->time_avg_min;
cfs_rq->nr_running++;
cfs_rq->weight_sum += 1 << se->weight_shift;
@@ -553,7 +556,7 @@ static void enqueue_task_fair(struct rq
if (se->on_rq)
break;
cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
- enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
+ enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se, wakeup);
}
}
@@ -813,7 +816,7 @@ static void task_new_fair(struct rq *rq,
rq->curr->se.time_norm -= time;
se->time_norm = rq->curr->se.time_norm;
- enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
+ enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se, 1);
p->se.on_rq = 1;
cfs_rq->next = se;
-
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