There are two mechanisms to prevent the scheduler from
sending jobs that won't finish by their deadline.
Simple mechanism:
The client sends the interval x for which CPUs are projected
to be saturated.
Given a job with estimated duration y,
the scheduler doesn't send it if x + y exceeds the delay bound.
If it does send it, x is incremented by y.
Complex mechanism:
Client sends workload description.
Scheduler does EDF simulation, sees if deadlines are missed.
The only project using this AFAIK is BOINC alpha test.
Neither of these mechanisms takes coprocessors into account,
and as a result jobs could be sent that are doomed to
miss their deadline.
This checkin adds coprocessor awareness to the Simple mechanism.
Changes:
Client:
compute estimated delay (i.e. time until non-saturation)
for coprocessors as well as CPU.
Send them in scheduler request as part of coproc descriptor.
Scheduler:
Keep track of estimated delays separately for different resources
- client: fixed bug that computed CPU estimated delay incorrectly
- client: the work request (req_secs) for a resource is the min
of the project's share and the shortfall.
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=17086
- parse new request message elements
(CPU and coproc requested seconds and instances)
- decide how many jobs to send based on these params
- select app version based on these params
(may send both CPU and CUDA app versions for the same app!)
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=16861
- web: check whether to show profile in separate function
from displaying profile; eliminate double headers
- scheduler: finish purge of redundant arguments
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=16726
put a textual summary of them in host.serialnum (currently unused)
- web: show coprocs on host detail page
- db_dump: include coproc info in host XML
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=16697
for the selected APP_VERSION, rather than on the CPU benchmarks.
Otherwise estimates are wrong for GPU or multi-thread apps.
- scheduler: start switching from having SCHED_REQUEST and
SCHED_REPLY as globals instead of passing them around as args;
to be continued.
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=16691
- scheduler: fix egregious bug where wu_is_infeasible_fast() result
is ignored, and we send jobs to hosts that can't handle them.
- scheduler: don't check for disk space in work_needed();
do it in check_disk(), which generates a message to user.
- scheduler: add -debug_log flag, which sends stderr to
"debug_log" rather than scheduler_log.txt (for debugging)
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=16578
David Anderson