sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups

A recurring complaint from CFS users is that parallel kbuild has
a negative impact on desktop interactivity.  This patch
implements an idea from Linus, to automatically create task
groups.  Currently, only per session autogroups are implemented,
but the patch leaves the way open for enhancement.

Implementation: each task's signal struct contains an inherited
pointer to a refcounted autogroup struct containing a task group
pointer, the default for all tasks pointing to the
init_task_group.  When a task calls setsid(), a new task group
is created, the process is moved into the new task group, and a
reference to the preveious task group is dropped.  Child
processes inherit this task group thereafter, and increase it's
refcount.  When the last thread of a process exits, the
process's reference is dropped, such that when the last process
referencing an autogroup exits, the autogroup is destroyed.

At runqueue selection time, IFF a task has no cgroup assignment,
its current autogroup is used.

Autogroup bandwidth is controllable via setting it's nice level
through the proc filesystem:

  cat /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Displays the task's group and the group's nice level.

  echo <nice level> > /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Sets the task group's shares to the weight of nice <level> task.
Setting nice level is rate limited for !admin users due to the
abuse risk of task group locking.

The feature is enabled from boot by default if
CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y is selected, but can be disabled via
the boot option noautogroup, and can also be turned on/off on
the fly via:

  echo [01] > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled

... which will automatically move tasks to/from the root task group.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ Removed the task_group_path() debug code, and fixed !EVENTFD build failure. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1290281700.28711.9.camel@maggy.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index a5b92c70c73..9c2d46da486 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -509,6 +509,8 @@ struct thread_group_cputimer {
 	spinlock_t lock;
 };
 
+struct autogroup;
+
 /*
  * NOTE! "signal_struct" does not have it's own
  * locking, because a shared signal_struct always
@@ -576,6 +578,9 @@ struct signal_struct {
 
 	struct tty_struct *tty; /* NULL if no tty */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP
+	struct autogroup *autogroup;
+#endif
 	/*
 	 * Cumulative resource counters for dead threads in the group,
 	 * and for reaped dead child processes forked by this group.
@@ -1927,6 +1932,24 @@ int sched_rt_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_compat_yield;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP
+extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_autogroup_enabled;
+
+extern void sched_autogroup_create_attach(struct task_struct *p);
+extern void sched_autogroup_detach(struct task_struct *p);
+extern void sched_autogroup_fork(struct signal_struct *sig);
+extern void sched_autogroup_exit(struct signal_struct *sig);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
+extern void proc_sched_autogroup_show_task(struct task_struct *p, struct seq_file *m);
+extern int proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice(struct task_struct *p, int *nice);
+#endif
+#else
+static inline void sched_autogroup_create_attach(struct task_struct *p) { }
+static inline void sched_autogroup_detach(struct task_struct *p) { }
+static inline void sched_autogroup_fork(struct signal_struct *sig) { }
+static inline void sched_autogroup_exit(struct signal_struct *sig) { }
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES
 extern int rt_mutex_getprio(struct task_struct *p);
 extern void rt_mutex_setprio(struct task_struct *p, int prio);