sched: Consider max cost of idle balance per sched domain

Date    Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:05:35 -0700

In this patch, we keep track of the max cost we spend doing idle load balancing
for each sched domain. If the avg time the CPU remains idle is less then the
time we have already spent on idle balancing + the max cost of idle balancing
in the sched domain, then we don't continue to attempt the balance. We also
keep a per rq variable, max_idle_balance_cost, which keeps track of the max
time spent on newidle load balances throughout all its domains. Additionally,
we swap sched_migration_cost used in idle_balance for rq->max_idle_balance_cost.

By using the max, we avoid overrunning the average. This further reduces the chance
we attempt balancing when the CPU is not idle for longer than the cost to balance.

I also limited the max cost of each domain to 5*sysctl_sched_migration_cost as
a way to prevent the max from becoming too inflated.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>

backported for Linux 3.4

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	kernel/sched/core.c
	kernel/sched/fair.c
	kernel/sched/sched.h
 ext4: speed up truncate/unlink by not using bforget() unless needed

Do not iterate over data blocks scanning for bh's to forget as they're
never exist. This improves time taken by unlink / truncate syscall.
Tested by continuously truncating file that is being written by dd.
Another test is rm -rf of linux tree while tar unpacks it. With
ordered data mode condition unlikely(!tbh) was always met in
ext4_free_blocks. With journal data mode tbh was found only few times,
so optimisation is also possible.

Unlinking fallocated 60G file after doing sync && echo 3 >
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && time rm --help

X86 before (linux 3.6-rc4):
real    0m2.710s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m1.530s

X86 after:
real    0m0.644s
user    0m0.003s
sys     0m0.060s

MIPS before (linux 2.6.37):
real    0m 4.93s
user    0m 0.00s
sys     0m 4.61s

MIPS after:
real    0m 0.16s
user    0m 0.00s
sys     0m 0.06s

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Sidorov <qrxd43@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>

Change-Id: Ie78a945cb82b3892eaf88701f2dc3b7726104fb5
jbd2: optimize jbd2_journal_force_commit

Current implementation of jbd2_journal_force_commit() is suboptimal because
result in empty and useless commits. But callers just want to force and wait
any unfinished commits. We already have jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested()
which does exactly what we want, except we are guaranteed that we do not hold
journal transaction open.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Change-Id: I5c041a1898838e880714a913b5a915f105a8dfb9
 cpufreq: Fix policy getting stuck when user & kernel min/max don't ov…

…erlap

Every __cpufreq_set_policy starts with checking the new policy min/max has
some overlap with the current policy min/max. This works out fine until we
end up with the policy min/max being set to a range that doesn't overlap
with the user policy min/max. Once we get into this situation, the check at
the start of __cpufreq_set_policy fails and prevents us from getting out of
this state.

This only happens when one of the CPUFREQ_ADJUST/CPUFREQ_INCOMPATIBLE
notifiers called inside __cpufreq_set_policy pick a min/max outside the
range of user policy min/max.

The real intent of the check at the start of __cpufreq_set_policy is to
make sure userspace can't set user policy min > user policy max. Since
__cpufreq_set_policy always gets called only with current user policy
min/max except when the actual user space policy min/max is changed, we can
fix the issue by simply checking the new policy min/max against current
user policy min/max.

Change-Id: Iaac805825e64d7985c41fb9052bd96baacdf3d6f
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>
ARM: be strict about FP exceptions in kernel mode

The support code in vfp_support_entry does not care whether the
exception that caused it to be invoked occurred in kernel mode or
in user mode. However, neither condition that could trigger this
exception (lazy restore and VFP bounce to support code) is
currently allowable in kernel mode.

In either case, print a message describing the condition before
letting the undefined instruction handler run its course and trigger
an oops.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>