sched, doc: Beef up load balancing description
Correct all function names pertaining to load balancing and explain shortly how load balancing is performed. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1301241433-3790-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Each CPU has a "base" scheduling domain (struct sched_domain). These are
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accessed via cpu_sched_domain(i) and this_sched_domain() macros. The domain
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Each CPU has a "base" scheduling domain (struct sched_domain). The domain
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hierarchy is built from these base domains via the ->parent pointer. ->parent
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MUST be NULL terminated, and domain structures should be per-CPU as they
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are locklessly updated.
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MUST be NULL terminated, and domain structures should be per-CPU as they are
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locklessly updated.
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Each scheduling domain spans a number of CPUs (stored in the ->span field).
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A domain's span MUST be a superset of it child's span (this restriction could
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load of each of its member CPUs, and only when the load of a group becomes
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out of balance are tasks moved between groups.
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In kernel/sched.c, rebalance_tick is run periodically on each CPU. This
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function takes its CPU's base sched domain and checks to see if has reached
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its rebalance interval. If so, then it will run load_balance on that domain.
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rebalance_tick then checks the parent sched_domain (if it exists), and the
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parent of the parent and so forth.
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In kernel/sched.c, trigger_load_balance() is run periodically on each CPU
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through scheduler_tick(). It raises a softirq after the next regularly scheduled
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rebalancing event for the current runqueue has arrived. The actual load
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balancing workhorse, run_rebalance_domains()->rebalance_domains(), is then run
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in softirq context (SCHED_SOFTIRQ).
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The latter function takes two arguments: the current CPU and whether it was idle
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at the time the scheduler_tick() happened and iterates over all sched domains
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our CPU is on, starting from its base domain and going up the ->parent chain.
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While doing that, it checks to see if the current domain has exhausted its
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rebalance interval. If so, it runs load_balance() on that domain. It then checks
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the parent sched_domain (if it exists), and the parent of the parent and so
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forth.
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Initially, load_balance() finds the busiest group in the current sched domain.
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If it succeeds, it looks for the busiest runqueue of all the CPUs' runqueues in
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that group. If it manages to find such a runqueue, it locks both our initial
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CPU's runqueue and the newly found busiest one and starts moving tasks from it
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to our runqueue. The exact number of tasks amounts to an imbalance previously
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computed while iterating over this sched domain's groups.
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*** Implementing sched domains ***
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The "base" domain will "span" the first level of the hierarchy. In the case
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