[Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 4/6] xen: sched: better handle (not) inserting idle vCPUs in runqueues

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Idle vCPUs are set to run immediately, as a part of their
own initialization, so we shouldn't even try to put them
in a runqueue. In fact, no scheduler does that, even when
asked to (that is rather explicit in Credit2 and RTDS, a
bit less evident in Credit1).

Let's make things look as follows:
 - in generic code, explicitly avoid even trying to
   insert idle vCPUs in runqueues;
 - in specific schedulers' code, enforce that.

Note that, as csched_vcpu_insert() is no longer being
called, during boot (from sched_init_vcpu()) we can
safely avoid saving the flags when taking the runqueue
lock.

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
---
Changes from v1:
 * changelog: updated and made a little bit less verbose.
---
 xen/common/sched_credit.c  |    7 ++++---
 xen/common/sched_credit2.c |   25 ++++++++++---------------
 xen/common/sched_rt.c      |    4 +---
 xen/common/schedule.c      |   20 +++++++++++---------
 4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/sched_credit.c b/xen/common/sched_credit.c
index 0e26986..021a9dd 100644
--- a/xen/common/sched_credit.c
+++ b/xen/common/sched_credit.c
@@ -912,14 +912,15 @@ csched_vcpu_insert(const struct scheduler *ops, struct 
vcpu *vc)
 {
     struct csched_vcpu *svc = vc->sched_priv;
     spinlock_t *lock;
-    unsigned long flags;
 
-    lock = vcpu_schedule_lock_irqsave(vc, &flags);
+    BUG_ON( is_idle_vcpu(vc) );
+
+    lock = vcpu_schedule_lock_irq(vc);
 
     if ( !__vcpu_on_runq(svc) && vcpu_runnable(vc) && !vc->is_running )
         __runq_insert(vc->processor, svc);
 
-    vcpu_schedule_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags, vc);
+    vcpu_schedule_unlock_irq(lock, vc);
 
     SCHED_STAT_CRANK(vcpu_insert);
 }
diff --git a/xen/common/sched_credit2.c b/xen/common/sched_credit2.c
index fc51a75..556ca0f 100644
--- a/xen/common/sched_credit2.c
+++ b/xen/common/sched_credit2.c
@@ -868,30 +868,25 @@ csched2_vcpu_insert(const struct scheduler *ops, struct 
vcpu *vc)
 {
     struct csched2_vcpu *svc = vc->sched_priv;
     struct csched2_dom * const sdom = svc->sdom;
+    spinlock_t *lock;
 
     printk("%s: Inserting %pv\n", __func__, vc);
 
-    /* NB: On boot, idle vcpus are inserted before alloc_pdata() has
-     * been called for that cpu.
-     */
-    if ( ! is_idle_vcpu(vc) )
-    {
-        spinlock_t *lock;
+    BUG_ON(is_idle_vcpu(vc));
 
-        /* FIXME: Do we need the private lock here? */
-        list_add_tail(&svc->sdom_elem, &svc->sdom->vcpu);
+    /* FIXME: Do we need the private lock here? */
+    list_add_tail(&svc->sdom_elem, &svc->sdom->vcpu);
 
-        /* Add vcpu to runqueue of initial processor */
-        lock = vcpu_schedule_lock_irq(vc);
+    /* Add vcpu to runqueue of initial processor */
+    lock = vcpu_schedule_lock_irq(vc);
 
-        runq_assign(ops, vc);
+    runq_assign(ops, vc);
 
-        vcpu_schedule_unlock_irq(lock, vc);
+    vcpu_schedule_unlock_irq(lock, vc);
 
-        sdom->nr_vcpus++;
+    sdom->nr_vcpus++;
 
-        SCHED_STAT_CRANK(vcpu_insert);
-    }
+    SCHED_STAT_CRANK(vcpu_insert);
 
     CSCHED2_VCPU_CHECK(vc);
 }
diff --git a/xen/common/sched_rt.c b/xen/common/sched_rt.c
index 3a66c9a..cbe7b17 100644
--- a/xen/common/sched_rt.c
+++ b/xen/common/sched_rt.c
@@ -624,9 +624,7 @@ rt_vcpu_insert(const struct scheduler *ops, struct vcpu *vc)
     s_time_t now = NOW();
     spinlock_t *lock;
 
-    /* not addlocate idle vcpu to dom vcpu list */
-    if ( is_idle_vcpu(vc) )
-        return;
+    BUG_ON( is_idle_vcpu(vc) );
 
     lock = vcpu_schedule_lock_irq(vc);
     if ( now >= svc->cur_deadline )
diff --git a/xen/common/schedule.c b/xen/common/schedule.c
index 1512d79..e3582d1 100644
--- a/xen/common/schedule.c
+++ b/xen/common/schedule.c
@@ -240,20 +240,22 @@ int sched_init_vcpu(struct vcpu *v, unsigned int 
processor)
     init_timer(&v->poll_timer, poll_timer_fn,
                v, v->processor);
 
-    /* Idle VCPUs are scheduled immediately. */
+    v->sched_priv = SCHED_OP(DOM2OP(d), alloc_vdata, v, d->sched_priv);
+    if ( v->sched_priv == NULL )
+        return 1;
+
+    TRACE_2D(TRC_SCHED_DOM_ADD, v->domain->domain_id, v->vcpu_id);
+
+    /* Idle VCPUs are scheduled immediately, so don't put them in runqueue. */
     if ( is_idle_domain(d) )
     {
         per_cpu(schedule_data, v->processor).curr = v;
         v->is_running = 1;
     }
-
-    TRACE_2D(TRC_SCHED_DOM_ADD, v->domain->domain_id, v->vcpu_id);
-
-    v->sched_priv = SCHED_OP(DOM2OP(d), alloc_vdata, v, d->sched_priv);
-    if ( v->sched_priv == NULL )
-        return 1;
-
-    SCHED_OP(DOM2OP(d), insert_vcpu, v);
+    else
+    {
+        SCHED_OP(DOM2OP(d), insert_vcpu, v);
+    }
 
     return 0;
 }


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