[v8,2/9] sched: Introduce latency-nice as a per-task attribute
Commit Message
From: Parth Shah <parth@linux.ibm.com>
Latency-nice indicates the latency requirements of a task with respect
to the other tasks in the system. The value of the attribute can be within
the range of [-20, 19] both inclusive to be in-line with the values just
like task nice values.
latency_nice = -20 indicates the task to have the least latency as
compared to the tasks having latency_nice = +19.
The latency_nice may affect only the CFS SCHED_CLASS by getting
latency requirements from the userspace.
Additionally, add debugging bits for newly added latency_nice attribute.
Signed-off-by: Parth Shah <parth@linux.ibm.com>
[rebase]
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
kernel/sched/debug.c | 1 +
kernel/sched/sched.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
@@ -783,6 +783,7 @@ struct task_struct {
int static_prio;
int normal_prio;
unsigned int rt_priority;
+ int latency_nice;
struct sched_entity se;
struct sched_rt_entity rt;
@@ -1042,6 +1042,7 @@ void proc_sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p, struct pid_namespace *ns,
#endif
P(policy);
P(prio);
+ P(latency_nice);
if (task_has_dl_policy(p)) {
P(dl.runtime);
P(dl.deadline);
@@ -125,6 +125,24 @@ extern int sched_rr_timeslice;
*/
#define NS_TO_JIFFIES(TIME) ((unsigned long)(TIME) / (NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ))
+/*
+ * Latency nice is meant to provide scheduler hints about the relative
+ * latency requirements of a task with respect to other tasks.
+ * Thus a task with latency_nice == 19 can be hinted as the task with no
+ * latency requirements, in contrast to the task with latency_nice == -20
+ * which should be given priority in terms of lower latency.
+ */
+#define MAX_LATENCY_NICE 19
+#define MIN_LATENCY_NICE -20
+
+#define LATENCY_NICE_WIDTH \
+ (MAX_LATENCY_NICE - MIN_LATENCY_NICE + 1)
+
+/*
+ * Default tasks should be treated as a task with latency_nice = 0.
+ */
+#define DEFAULT_LATENCY_NICE 0
+
/*
* Increase resolution of nice-level calculations for 64-bit architectures.
* The extra resolution improves shares distribution and load balancing of