Re: [patch] improve SMP reschedule and idle routines

[Ingo Molnar]

* Nick Piggin <piggin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK, done a bit of work on all other architectures, and diffed to the
> latest -mm. Any chance you can put it in -mm, Andrew?
> 
> Also, while I was there, I thought I'd add the set_need_resched() 
> thing to all the other architectures. I couldn't be bothered doing 2 
> patches, sorry.

the need_resched changes are not needed meanwhile - we can do the first 
schedule() in rest_init() just fine. (See my earlier patch below.) So 
please keep the need_resched thing out of your patch.

----
The patch below should address this problem for all architectures, by 
doing an explicit schedule() in the init code before calling into 
cpu_idle(). It's a replacement for the following patch:

 sched-remove-set_tsk_need_resched-from-init_idle.patch

	Ingo

--

This patch tweaks idle thread setup semantics a bit: instead of setting
NEED_RESCHED in init_idle(), we do an explicit schedule() before
calling into cpu_idle().

This patch, while having no negative side-effects, enables wider use of 
cond_resched()s.  (which might happen in the stock kernel too, but it's 
particulary important for voluntary-preempt)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>

--- linux/kernel/sched.c.orig
+++ linux/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4163,6 +4163,14 @@ void show_state(void)
 	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 }
 
+/**
+ * init_idle - set up an idle thread for a given CPU
+ * @idle: task in question
+ * @cpu: cpu the idle task belongs to
+ *
+ * NOTE: this function does not set the idle thread's NEED_RESCHED
+ * flag, to make booting more robust.
+ */
 void __devinit init_idle(task_t *idle, int cpu)
 {
 	runqueue_t *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
@@ -4180,7 +4188,6 @@ void __devinit init_idle(task_t *idle, i
 #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(__ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW)
 	idle->oncpu = 1;
 #endif
-	set_tsk_need_resched(idle);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
 
 	/* Set the preempt count _outside_ the spinlocks! */
--- linux/init/main.c.orig
+++ linux/init/main.c
@@ -383,6 +383,13 @@ static void noinline rest_init(void)
 	numa_default_policy();
 	unlock_kernel();
 	preempt_enable_no_resched();
+
+	/*
+	 * The boot idle thread must execute schedule()
+	 * at least once to get things moving:
+	 */
+	schedule();
+
 	cpu_idle();
 } 
 
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