On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 19:45:12 -0500 Nathan Lynch <ntl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Freezing tasks via the cgroup freezer causes the load average to climb
> because the freezer's current implementation puts frozen tasks in
> uninterruptible sleep (D state).
>
> Some applications which perform job-scheduling functions consult the
> load average when making decisions. If a cgroup is frozen, the load
> average does not provide a useful measure of the system's utilization
> to such applications. This is especially inconvenient if the job
> scheduler employs the cgroup freezer as a mechanism for preempting low
> priority jobs. Contrast this with using SIGSTOP for the same purpose:
> the stopped tasks do not count toward system load.
>
> Change task_contributes_to_load() to return false if the task is
> frozen. This results in /proc/loadavg behavior that better meets
> users' expectations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/sched.h | 3 ++-
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 011db2f..f8af167 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -202,7 +202,8 @@ extern unsigned long long time_sync_thresh;
> #define task_is_stopped_or_traced(task) \
> ((task->state & (__TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED)) != 0)
> #define task_contributes_to_load(task) \
> - ((task->state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) != 0)
> + ((task->state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) != 0 && \
> + (task->flags & PF_FROZEN) == 0)
>
> #define __set_task_state(tsk, state_value) \
> do { (tsk)->state = (state_value); } while (0)
Looks OK to me. It should perhaps use !frozen(task), but the includes
are mucked up.
I suppose we should fix this in -stable too.
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