sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome

If the previous CPU is cache affine and idle, select it.

The current implementation simply traverses the sd_llc domain,
taking the first idle CPU encountered, which walks buddy pairs
hand in hand over the package, inflicting excruciating pain.

1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:

  pre   15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
  post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359371965.5783.127.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
deadline: Allow 0ms deadline latency, increase the read speed

Change a timer compare from after to after-equals, thus allowing
0 timeout and making deadline schedule FIFO.

Signed-off-by: xiaobing tu <xiaobing.tu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
mm: slub: Default slub_max_order to 0

To avoid locking and per-cpu overhead, SLUB optimisically uses
high-order allocations up to order-3 by default and falls back to
lower allocations if they fail. While care is taken that the caller
and kswapd take no unusual steps in response to this, there are
further consequences like shrinkers who have to free more objects to
release any memory. There is anecdotal evidence that significant time
is being spent looping in shrinkers with insufficient progress being
made (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/28/361) and keeping kswapd awake.

SLUB is now the default allocator and some bug reports have been
pinned down to SLUB using high orders during operations like
copying large amounts of data. SLUBs use of high-orders benefits
applications that are sized to memory appropriately but this does not
necessarily apply to large file servers or desktops.  This patch
causes SLUB to use order-0 pages like SLAB does by default.
There is further evidence that this keeps kswapd's usage lower
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/10/383).

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
mm: vmscan: If kswapd has been running too long, allow it to sleep

Under constant allocation pressure, kswapd can be in the situation where
sleeping_prematurely() will always return true even if kswapd has been
running a long time. Check if kswapd needs to be scheduled.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
lowmemorykiller: Account for highmem during kswapd reclaim

Currenlty most memory reclaim is done through kswapd.
Since kswapd uses a gfp mask of GFP_KERNEL, and because
the lowmemorykiller is zone aware, the lowmemorykiller will
ignore highmem most of the time.
This results in the lowmemorykiller being overly aggressive.

The fix to this issue is to allow the lowmemorykiller to
count highmem when being called by the kswapd if the lowmem
watermarks are satisfied.

Change-Id: I938644584f374763d10d429d835e74daa4854a38
Signed-off-by: Liam Mark <lmark@codeaurora.org>
ARM: fix warning caused by wrongly typed arm_dma_limit

arch/arm/mm/init.c: In function 'arm_memblock_init':
arch/arm/mm/init.c:380: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast

by fixing the typecast in its definition when DMA_ZONE is disabled.
This was missed in 4986e5c7c (ARM: mm: fix type of the arm_dma_limit
global variable).

Change-Id: Id076f2bebe307609265afdd4229181d2004c5f9c
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>
workqueue: don't use WQ_HIGHPRI for unbound workqueues

Unbound wqs aren't concurrency-managed and try to execute work items
as soon as possible.  This is currently achieved by implicitly setting
%WQ_HIGHPRI on all unbound workqueues; however, WQ_HIGHPRI
implementation is about to be restructured and this usage won't be
valid anymore.

Add an explicit chain-wakeup path for unbound workqueues in
process_one_work() instead of piggy backing on %WQ_HIGHPRI.

Change-Id: Iecd17a9935ee28f856d8b726bb4c296762922bed
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Git-commit: 974271c485a4d8bb801decc616748f90aafb07ec
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
workqueue: factor out worker_pool from global_cwq

Move worklist and all worker management fields from global_cwq into
the new struct worker_pool.  worker_pool points back to the containing
gcwq.  worker and cpu_workqueue_struct are updated to point to
worker_pool instead of gcwq too.

This change is mechanical and doesn't introduce any functional
difference other than rearranging of fields and an added level of
indirection in some places.  This is to prepare for multiple pools per
gcwq.

v2: Comment typo fixes as suggested by Namhyung.

Change-Id: Iefae84798c2af580f425b92ed79117935d99f21f
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Git-commit: bd7bdd43dcb81bb08240b9401b36a104f77dc135
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
workqueue: use @pool instead of @gcwq or @cpu where applicable

Modify all functions which deal with per-pool properties to pass
around @pool instead of @gcwq or @cpu.

The changes in this patch are mechanical and don't caues any
functional difference.  This is to prepare for multiple pools per
gcwq.

Change-Id: I4be6727e1cce6f9aa2a0057b96bdc725c84f1ea8
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Git-commit: 63d95a9150ee3bbd4117fcd609dee40313b454d9
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
workqueue: separate out worker_pool flags

GCWQ_MANAGE_WORKERS, GCWQ_MANAGING_WORKERS and GCWQ_HIGHPRI_PENDING
are per-pool properties.  Add worker_pool->flags and make the above
three flags per-pool flags.

The changes in this patch are mechanical and don't caues any
functional difference.  This is to prepare for multiple pools per
gcwq.

Change-Id: I1824fd1c509d8ac6b0619536621a22b15b316256
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Git-commit: 11ebea50dbc1ade5994b2c838a096078d4c02399
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
workqueue: introduce NR_WORKER_POOLS and for_each_worker_pool()

Introduce NR_WORKER_POOLS and for_each_worker_pool() and convert code
paths which need to manipulate all pools in a gcwq to use them.
NR_WORKER_POOLS is currently one and for_each_worker_pool() iterates
over only @gcwq->pool.

Note that nr_running is per-pool property and converted to an array
with NR_WORKER_POOLS elements and renamed to pool_nr_running.  Note
that get_pool_nr_running() currently assumes 0 index.  The next patch
will make use of non-zero index.

The changes in this patch are mechanical and don't caues any
functional difference.  This is to prepare for multiple pools per
gcwq.

v2: nr_running indexing bug in get_pool_nr_running() fixed.

v3: Pointer to array is stupid.  Don't use it in get_pool_nr_running()
    as suggested by Linus.

Change-Id: I46e9488601d764d25e4a6c707de129ab68f7064c
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Git-commit: 4ce62e9e30cacc26885cab133ad1de358dd79f21
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
workqueue: reimplement WQ_HIGHPRI using a separate worker_pool

WQ_HIGHPRI was implemented by queueing highpri work items at the head
of the global worklist.  Other than queueing at the head, they weren't
handled differently; unfortunately, this could lead to execution
latency of a few seconds on heavily loaded systems.

Now that workqueue code has been updated to deal with multiple
worker_pools per global_cwq, this patch reimplements WQ_HIGHPRI using
a separate worker_pool.  NR_WORKER_POOLS is bumped to two and
gcwq->pools[0] is used for normal pri work items and ->pools[1] for
highpri.  Highpri workers get -20 nice level and has 'H' suffix in
their names.  Note that this change increases the number of kworkers
per cpu.

POOL_HIGHPRI_PENDING, pool_determine_ins_pos() and highpri chain
wakeup code in process_one_work() are no longer used and removed.

This allows proper prioritization of highpri work items and removes
high execution latency of highpri work items.

v2: nr_running indexing bug in get_pool_nr_running() fixed.

v3: Refreshed for the get_pool_nr_running() update in the previous
    patch.

Change-Id: Id843c0a425f51f84083786fbf413d999d35771b7
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Josh Hunt <joshhunt00@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <CAKA=qzaHqwZ8eqpLNFjxnO2fX-tgAOjmpvxgBFjv6dJeQaOW1w@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Git-commit: 3270476a6c0ce322354df8679652f060d66526dc
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>