Re: [PATCH] sched/deadline: Zero out positive runtime after throttling constrained tasks

From: Xunlei Pang
Date: Thu May 11 2017 - 23:34:39 EST


On 05/11/2017 at 09:38 AM, Xunlei Pang wrote:
> On 05/10/2017 at 09:36 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 May 2017 21:03:37 +0800
>> Xunlei Pang <xlpang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> When a contrained task is throttled by dl_check_constrained_dl(),
>>> it may carry the remaining positive runtime, as a result when
>>> dl_task_timer() fires and calls replenish_dl_entity(), it will
>>> not be replenished correctly due to the positive dl_se->runtime.
>>>
>>> This patch assigns its runtime to 0 if positive after throttling.
>>>
>>> Fixes: df8eac8cafce ("sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline)
>>> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> kernel/sched/deadline.c | 2 ++
>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
>>> index a2ce590..d3d291e 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
>>> @@ -723,6 +723,8 @@ static inline void dl_check_constrained_dl(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
>>> if (unlikely(dl_se->dl_boosted || !start_dl_timer(p)))
>>> return;
>>> dl_se->dl_throttled = 1;
>>> + if (dl_se->runtime > 0)
>>> + dl_se->runtime = 0;
>> This makes sense to me, but should we have any accounting for runtime
>> that was missed due to wakeups and such?
> It sounds a good idea, will try to add that to "/proc/<pid>/sched".
>
> Looks like we should also catch and handle the deadline miss in dl_runtime_exceeded(),
> I guess we can add the accounting together.

Hi all,

Thanks for all your valuable review!

FYI: I just sent v2 added two more patches.

Regards,
Xunlei