sched/wait: Introduce TASK_NOLOAD and TASK_IDLE
Currently people use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to idle kthreads and wait for
'work' because TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE contributes to the loadavg. Having
all idle kthreads contribute to the loadavg is somewhat silly.
Now mostly this works OK, because kthreads have all their signals
masked. However there's a few sites where this is causing problems and
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE should be used, except for that loadavg issue.
This patch adds TASK_NOLOAD which, when combined with
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE avoids the loadavg accounting.
As most of imagined usage sites are loops where a thread wants to
idle, waiting for work, a helper TASK_IDLE is introduced.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index dd07ac0..7de815c 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -218,9 +218,10 @@
#define TASK_WAKEKILL 128
#define TASK_WAKING 256
#define TASK_PARKED 512
-#define TASK_STATE_MAX 1024
+#define TASK_NOLOAD 1024
+#define TASK_STATE_MAX 2048
-#define TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR "RSDTtXZxKWP"
+#define TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR "RSDTtXZxKWPN"
extern char ___assert_task_state[1 - 2*!!(
sizeof(TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR)-1 != ilog2(TASK_STATE_MAX)+1)];
@@ -230,6 +231,8 @@
#define TASK_STOPPED (TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_STOPPED)
#define TASK_TRACED (TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_TRACED)
+#define TASK_IDLE (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_NOLOAD)
+
/* Convenience macros for the sake of wake_up */
#define TASK_NORMAL (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
#define TASK_ALL (TASK_NORMAL | __TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED)
@@ -245,7 +248,8 @@
((task->state & (__TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED)) != 0)
#define task_contributes_to_load(task) \
((task->state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) != 0 && \
- (task->flags & PF_FROZEN) == 0)
+ (task->flags & PF_FROZEN) == 0 && \
+ (task->state & TASK_NOLOAD) == 0)
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP