This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sched-rt-show-the-sched_rr_timeslice-sched_rr-timesl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 38e77b3e97b13bf468732f5f5f705a602fe94cde
Author: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Jan 28 22:00:49 2017 +0800
sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds
[ Upstream commit 975e155ed8732cb81f55c021c441ae662dd040b5 ]
We added the 'sched_rr_timeslice_ms' SCHED_RR tuning knob in this commit:
ce0dbbbb30ae ("sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice")
... which name suggests to users that it's in milliseconds, while in reality
it's being set in milliseconds but the result is shown in jiffies.
This is obviously confusing when HZ is not 1000, it makes it appear like the
value set failed, such as HZ=100:
root# echo 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
root# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
10
Fix this to be milliseconds all around.
Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485612049-20923-1-git-send-email-shile.zhang@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
index 05e8b6e4edcb6..debcd4bf22956 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_cfs_bandwidth_slice;
extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_autogroup_enabled;
#endif
+extern int sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice;
extern int sched_rr_timeslice;
extern int sched_rr_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 870d802c46f90..c7c7ba8807f83 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -8389,8 +8389,9 @@ int sched_rr_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
/* make sure that internally we keep jiffies */
/* also, writing zero resets timeslice to default */
if (!ret && write) {
- sched_rr_timeslice = sched_rr_timeslice <= 0 ?
- RR_TIMESLICE : msecs_to_jiffies(sched_rr_timeslice);
+ sched_rr_timeslice =
+ sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice <= 0 ? RR_TIMESLICE :
+ msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice);
}
mutex_unlock(&mutex);
return ret;
diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index 9ab4d73e9cc95..5034c41a53130 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/irq_work.h>
int sched_rr_timeslice = RR_TIMESLICE;
+int sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice = (MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) * RR_TIMESLICE;
static int do_sched_rt_period_timer(struct rt_bandwidth *rt_b, int overrun);
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 34449ec0689d0..513e6da318c47 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
},
{
.procname = "sched_rr_timeslice_ms",
- .data = &sched_rr_timeslice,
+ .data = &sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = sched_rr_handler,
