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Commit f57d54ba authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change affects group scheduling: we now track the runnable
  average on a per-task entity basis, allowing a smoother, exponential
  decay average based load/weight estimation instead of the previous
  binary on-the-runqueue/off-the-runqueue load weight method.

  This will inevitably disturb workloads that were in some sort of
  borderline balancing state or unstable equilibrium, so an eye has to
  be kept on regressions.

  For that reason the new load average is only limited to group
  scheduling (shares distribution) at the moment (which was also hurting
  the most from the prior, crude weight calculation and whose scheduling
  quality wins most from this change) - but we plan to extend this to
  regular SMP balancing as well in the future, which will simplify and
  speed up things a bit.

  Other changes involve ongoing preparatory work to extend NOHZ to the
  scheduler as well, eventually allowing completely irq-free user-space
  execution."

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  Revert "sched/autogroup: Fix crash on reboot when autogroup is disabled"
  cputime: Comment cputime's adjusting code
  cputime: Consolidate cputime adjustment code
  cputime: Rename thread_group_times to thread_group_cputime_adjusted
  cputime: Move thread_group_cputime() to sched code
  vtime: Warn if irqs aren't disabled on system time accounting APIs
  vtime: No need to disable irqs on vtime_account()
  vtime: Consolidate a bit the ctx switch code
  vtime: Explicitly account pending user time on process tick
  vtime: Remove the underscore prefix invasion
  sched/autogroup: Fix crash on reboot when autogroup is disabled
  cputime: Separate irqtime accounting from generic vtime
  cputime: Specialize irq vtime hooks
  kvm: Directly account vtime to system on guest switch
  vtime: Make vtime_account_system() irqsafe
  vtime: Gather vtime declarations to their own header file
  sched: Describe CFS load-balancer
  sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking
  sched: Make __update_entity_runnable_avg() fast
  sched: Update_cfs_shares at period edge
  ...
parents da830e58 c1ad41f1
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