Attachment 217221 Details for Bug 319911 – patch re-diffed for 2.6.9-55.EL

[patch] patch re-diffed for 2.6.9-55.EL

avoid-interactive-starvation-rhel4.patch (text/plain), 2.02 KB, created by Bryn M. Reeves on 2007-10-05 10:59:16 UTC

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Creator: Bryn M. Reeves

Created: 2007-10-05 10:59:16 UTC

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>--- ./kernel/sched.c.orig	2007-10-05 10:52:36.000000000 +0100
>+++ ./kernel/sched.c	2007-10-05 11:03:12.000000000 +0100
>@@ -778,11 +778,30 @@
> }
> 
> /*
>+ * We place interactive tasks back into the active array, if possible.
>+ *
>+ * To guarantee that this does not starve expired tasks we ignore the
>+ * interactivity of a task if the first expired task had to wait more
>+ * than a 'reasonable' amount of time. This deadline timeout is
>+ * load-dependent, as the frequency of array switched decreases with
>+ * increasing number of running tasks. We also ignore the interactivity
>+ * if a better static_prio task has expired:
>+ */
>+#define EXPIRED_STARVING(rq) \
>+	((STARVATION_LIMIT && ((rq)->expired_timestamp && \
>+		(jiffies - (rq)->expired_timestamp >= \
>+			STARVATION_LIMIT * ((rq)->nr_running) + 1))) || \
>+			((rq)->curr->static_prio > (rq)->best_expired_prio))
>+
>+/*
>  * __activate_task - move a task to the runqueue.
>  */
> static inline void __activate_task(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq)
> {
>-	enqueue_task(p, rq->active);
>+	prio_array_t *array = rq->active;
>+	if (unlikely(EXPIRED_STARVING(rq)))
>+		array = rq->expired;
>+	enqueue_task(p, array);
> 	rq->nr_running++;
> }
> 
>@@ -2381,22 +2400,6 @@
> EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(kstat);
> 
> /*
>- * We place interactive tasks back into the active array, if possible.
>- *
>- * To guarantee that this does not starve expired tasks we ignore the
>- * interactivity of a task if the first expired task had to wait more
>- * than a 'reasonable' amount of time. This deadline timeout is
>- * load-dependent, as the frequency of array switched decreases with
>- * increasing number of running tasks. We also ignore the interactivity
>- * if a better static_prio task has expired:
>- */
>-#define EXPIRED_STARVING(rq) \
>-	((STARVATION_LIMIT && ((rq)->expired_timestamp && \
>-		(jiffies - (rq)->expired_timestamp >= \
>-			STARVATION_LIMIT * ((rq)->nr_running) + 1))) || \
>-			((rq)->curr->static_prio > (rq)->best_expired_prio))
>-
>-/*
>  * This function gets called by the timer code, with HZ frequency.
>  * We call it with interrupts disabled.
>  *

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