arm: Allow CPU-supported unaligned accesses
i guess this has not changend anything, but this way it sounds more positve ;)
ups...delted one line too much
[PATCH] sched: Accumulate per-cfs_rq cpu usage and charge against
 bandwidth

Account bandwidth usage on the cfs_rq level versus the task_groups to which
they belong.  Whether we are tracking bandwidth on a given cfs_rq is maintained
under cfs_rq->runtime_enabled.

cfs_rq's which belong to a bandwidth constrained task_group have their runtime
accounted via the update_curr() path, which withdraws bandwidth from the global
pool as desired.  Updates involving the global pool are currently protected
under cfs_bandwidth->lock, local runtime is protected by rq->lock.

This patch only assigns and tracks quota, no action is taken in the case that
cfs_rq->runtime_used exceeds cfs_rq->runtime_assigned.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.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/20110721184757.179386821@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] sched: Add a timer to handle CFS bandwidth refresh

This patch adds a per-task_group timer which handles the refresh of the global
CFS bandwidth pool.

Since the RT pool is using a similar timer there's some small refactoring to
share this support.

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/20110721184757.277271273@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] sched: Expire invalid runtime

Since quota is managed using a global state but consumed on a per-cpu basis
we need to ensure that our per-cpu state is appropriately synchronized.
Most importantly, runtime that is state (from a previous period) should not be
locally consumable.

We take advantage of existing sched_clock synchronization about the jiffy to
efficiently detect whether we have (globally) crossed a quota boundary above.

One catch is that the direction of spread on sched_clock is undefined,
specifically, we don't know whether our local clock is behind or ahead
of the one responsible for the current expiration time.

Fortunately we can differentiate these by considering whether the
global deadline has advanced.  If it has not, then we assume our clock to be
fast and advance our local expiration; otherwise, we know the deadline has
truly passed and we expire our local runtime.

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/20110721184757.379275352@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] sched: Add support for throttling group entities

Now that consumption is tracked (via update_curr()) we add support to throttle
group entities (and their corresponding cfs_rqs) in the case where this is no
run-time remaining.

Throttled entities are dequeued to prevent scheduling, additionally we mark
them as throttled (using cfs_rq->throttled) to prevent them from becoming
re-enqueued until they are unthrottled.  A list of a task_group's throttled
entities are maintained on the cfs_bandwidth structure.

Note: While the machinery for throttling is added in this patch the act of
throttling an entity exceeding its bandwidth is deferred until later within
the series.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.480608533@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] sched: Add support for unthrottling group entities

At the start of each period we refresh the global bandwidth pool.  At this time
we must also unthrottle any cfs_rq entities who are now within bandwidth once
more (as quota permits).

Unthrottled entities have their corresponding cfs_rq->throttled flag cleared
and their entities re-enqueued.

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/20110721184757.574628950@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] sched: Allow for positional tg_tree walks
Extend walk_tg_tree to accept a positional argument

static int walk_tg_tree_from(struct task_group *from,
     tg_visitor down, tg_visitor up, void *data)

Existing semantics are preserved, caller must hold rcu_lock() or sufficient
analogue.

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/20110721184757.677889157@google.com
[PATCH] sched: Prevent buddy interactions with throttled entities

Buddies allow us to select on-rq entities without actually selecting them
from a cfs_rq's rb_tree.  As a result we must ensure that throttled entities
are not falsely nominated as buddies.  The fact that entities are dequeued
within throttle_entity is not sufficient for clearing buddy status as the
nomination may occur after throttling.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.886850167@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] sched: Migrate throttled tasks on HOTPLUG

Throttled tasks are invisisble to cpu-offline since they are not eligible for
selection by pick_next_task().  The regular 'escape' path for a thread that is
blocked at offline is via ttwu->select_task_rq, however this will not handle a
throttled group since there are no individual thread wakeups on an unthrottle.

Resolve this by unthrottling offline cpus so that threads can be migrated.

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/20110721184757.989000590@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] sched: Throttle entities exceeding their allowed bandwidth

With the machinery in place to throttle and unthrottle entities, as well as
handle their participation (or lack there of) we can now enable throttling.

There are 2 points that we must check whether it's time to set throttled state:
 put_prev_entity() and enqueue_entity().

- put_prev_entity() is the typical throttle path, we reach it by exceeding our
  allocated run-time within update_curr()->account_cfs_rq_runtime() and going
  through a reschedule.

- enqueue_entity() covers the case of a wake-up into an already throttled
  group.  In this case we know the group cannot be on_rq and can throttle
  immediately.  Checks are added at time of put_prev_entity() and
  enqueue_entity()

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184758.091415417@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] sched: Add exports tracking cfs bandwidth control statistics

This change introduces statistics exports for the cpu sub-system, these are
added through the use of a stat file similar to that exported by other
subsystems.

The following exports are included:

nr_periods:number of periods in which execution occurred
nr_throttled:the number of periods above in which execution was throttle
throttled_time:cumulative wall-time that any cpus have been throttled for
this group

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.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/20110721184758.198901931@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] sched: Return unused runtime on group dequeue

When a local cfs_rq blocks we return the majority of its remaining quota to the
global bandwidth pool for use by other runqueues.

We do this only when the quota is current and there is more than
min_cfs_rq_quota [1ms by default] of runtime remaining on the rq.

In the case where there are throttled runqueues and we have sufficient
bandwidth to meter out a slice, a second timer is kicked off to handle this
delivery, unthrottling where appropriate.

Using a 'worst case' antagonist which executes on each cpu
for 1ms before moving onto the next on a fairly large machine:

no quota generations:

 197.47 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage
 199.46 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage
 205.46 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage
 198.46 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage
 208.39 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage

Since we are allowed to use stale quota our usage is effectively bounded by
the rate of input into the global pool and performance is relatively stable.

with quota generations [1s increments]:

 119.58 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage
 119.65 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage
 119.64 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage
 119.63 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage
 119.60 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage

The large deficit here is due to quota generations (/intentionally/) preventing
us from now using previously stranded slack quota.  The cost is that this quota
becomes unavailable.

with quota generations and quota return:

 200.09 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage
 200.09 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage
 198.09 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage
 200.09 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage
 200.06 ms       /cgroup/a/cpuacct.usage

By returning unused quota we're able to both stably consume our desired quota
and prevent unintentional overages due to the abuse of slack quota from
previous quota periods (especially on a large machine).

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184758.306848658@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control

Basic description of usage and effect for CFS Bandwidth Control.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184758.498036116@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Revert "[PATCH] sched: Validate CFS quota hierarchies"

This reverts commit 9a1f129a5820c369d19b3563ea2c2ca9986935e2.
Revert "[PATCH] sched: Introduce primitives to account for CFS bandwidth"

This reverts commit a1447ece27ef160c83f3037d15cff52c4f38b85e.
Revert "[PATCH] sched: Implement hierarchical task accounting for"

This reverts commit 10209a2f6f1c03cbdaaa0fde26d098444737bff3.
diabled non-working refreshrate_mod for now
fixed building of cfs version (buildscript issue)
AIO: Don't plug the I/O queue in do_io_submit()
Asynchronous I/O latency to a solid-state disk greatly increased
between the 2.6.32 and 3.0 kernels. By removing the plug from
do_io_submit(), we observed a 34% improvement in the I/O latency.

Unfortunately, at this level, we don't know if the request is to
a rotating disk or not.