sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE inheritance logic

Some method to deal with rt-mutexes and make sched_dl interact with
the current PI-coded is needed, raising all but trivial issues, that
needs (according to us) to be solved with some restructuring of
the pi-code (i.e., going toward a proxy execution-ish implementation).

This is under development, in the meanwhile, as a temporary solution,
what this commits does is:

 - ensure a pi-lock owner with waiters is never throttled down. Instead,
   when it runs out of runtime, it immediately gets replenished and it's
   deadline is postponed;

 - the scheduling parameters (relative deadline and default runtime)
   used for that replenishments --during the whole period it holds the
   pi-lock-- are the ones of the waiting task with earliest deadline.

Acting this way, we provide some kind of boosting to the lock-owner,
still by using the existing (actually, slightly modified by the previous
commit) pi-architecture.

We would stress the fact that this is only a surely needed, all but
clean solution to the problem. In the end it's only a way to re-start
discussion within the community. So, as always, comments, ideas, rants,
etc.. are welcome! :-)

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
[ Added !RT_MUTEXES build fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-11-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 93ea62754f1..52453a2d0a7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -107,6 +107,20 @@ static inline int task_has_dl_policy(struct task_struct *p)
 	return dl_policy(p->policy);
 }
 
+static inline int dl_time_before(u64 a, u64 b)
+{
+	return (s64)(a - b) < 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Tells if entity @a should preempt entity @b.
+ */
+static inline
+int dl_entity_preempt(struct sched_dl_entity *a, struct sched_dl_entity *b)
+{
+	return dl_time_before(a->deadline, b->deadline);
+}
+
 /*
  * This is the priority-queue data structure of the RT scheduling class:
  */