sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice

Add a /proc/sys/kernel scheduler knob named
sched_rr_timeslice_ms that allows global changing of the
SCHED_RR timeslice value. User visable value is in milliseconds
but is stored as jiffies.  Setting to 0 (zero) resets to the
default (currently 100ms).

Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094704.13751796@riff.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

include/linux/sched/sysctl.h

@@ -73,6 +73,13 @@ static inline unsigned int get_sysctl_timer_migration(void)
 	return 1;
 }
 #endif
+
+/*
+ *  control realtime throttling:
+ *
+ *  /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_period_us
+ *  /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us
+ */
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_rt_period;
 extern int sysctl_sched_rt_runtime;
 
@@ -90,7 +97,13 @@ extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_autogroup_enabled;
  */
 #define RR_TIMESLICE		(100 * HZ / 1000)
 
-int sched_rt_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+extern int sched_rr_timeslice;
+
+extern int sched_rr_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+		void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+		loff_t *ppos);
+
+extern int sched_rt_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 		void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
 		loff_t *ppos);
 

kernel/sched/core.c

@@ -7509,6 +7509,25 @@ static int sched_rt_global_constraints(void)
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED */
 
+int sched_rr_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+		void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+		loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	int ret;
+	static DEFINE_MUTEX(mutex);
+
+	mutex_lock(&mutex);
+	ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+	/* 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);
+	}
+	mutex_unlock(&mutex);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 int sched_rt_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 		void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
 		loff_t *ppos)

kernel/sched/rt.c

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 
+int sched_rr_timeslice = RR_TIMESLICE;
+
 static int do_sched_rt_period_timer(struct rt_bandwidth *rt_b, int overrun);
 
 struct rt_bandwidth def_rt_bandwidth;
@@ -2016,7 +2018,7 @@ static void task_tick_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int queued)
 	if (--p->rt.time_slice)
 		return;
 
-	p->rt.time_slice = RR_TIMESLICE;
+	p->rt.time_slice = sched_rr_timeslice;
 
 	/*
 	 * Requeue to the end of queue if we (and all of our ancestors) are the
@@ -2047,7 +2049,7 @@ static unsigned int get_rr_interval_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *task)
 	 * Time slice is 0 for SCHED_FIFO tasks
 	 */
 	if (task->policy == SCHED_RR)
-		return RR_TIMESLICE;
+		return sched_rr_timeslice;
 	else
 		return 0;
 }

kernel/sysctl.c

@@ -404,6 +404,13 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= sched_rt_handler,
 	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "sched_rr_timeslice_ms",
+		.data		= &sched_rr_timeslice,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= sched_rr_handler,
+	},
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP
 	{
 		.procname	= "sched_autogroup_enabled",