Re: [PATCH v3] sched/pelt: fix update_blocked_averages() for dl and rt

From: Dietmar Eggemann
Date: Mon Sep 03 2018 - 00:36:52 EST


On 08/31/2018 08:22 AM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
update_blocked_averages() is called to periodiccally decay the stalled load
of idle CPUs and to sync all loads before running load balance.

When cfs rq is idle, it trigs a load balance during pick_next_task_fair()
in order to potentially pull tasks and to use this newly idle CPU. This
load balance happens whereas prev task from another class has not been put
and its utilization updated yet. This may lead to wrongly account running
time as idle time for rt or dl classes.

Test that no rt or dl task is running when updating their utilization in
update_blocked_averages().

Shouldn't this be 's/that no/if an' ?

You still update the utilization of the rt or dl task if they are running (accrue + decay) instead of only decay. Similar to the 'cfs_rq->curr != NULL' in __update_load_avg_cfs_rq().

We still update rt and dl utilization instead of simply skipping them to
make sure that all metrics are synced when used during load balance.

I assume this sentence is indirectly saying this.


Fixes: 371bf4273269 ("sched/rt: Add rt_rq utilization tracking")
Fixes: 3727e0e16340 ("sched/dl: Add dl_rq utilization tracking")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

-V3
- move rq->curr dereference under the rq->lock

-V2
- Add missing fixes tags
- apply fix to other version of update_blocked_averages

kernel/sched/fair.c | 14 ++++++++++----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 309c93f..53bbcd4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7262,6 +7262,7 @@ static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
{
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, *pos;
+ const struct sched_class *curr_class;
struct rq_flags rf;
bool done = true;
@@ -7298,8 +7299,10 @@ static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
if (cfs_rq_has_blocked(cfs_rq))
done = false;
}
- update_rt_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_task(rq), rq, 0);
- update_dl_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_task(rq), rq, 0);
+
+ curr_class = rq->curr->sched_class;
+ update_rt_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_task(rq), rq, curr_class == &rt_sched_class);
+ update_dl_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_task(rq), rq, curr_class == &dl_sched_class);
update_irq_load_avg(rq, 0);
/* Don't need periodic decay once load/util_avg are null */
if (others_have_blocked(rq))
@@ -7364,13 +7367,16 @@ static inline void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
{
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = &rq->cfs;
+ const struct sched_class *curr_class;
struct rq_flags rf;
rq_lock_irqsave(rq, &rf);
update_rq_clock(rq);
update_cfs_rq_load_avg(cfs_rq_clock_task(cfs_rq), cfs_rq);
- update_rt_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_task(rq), rq, 0);
- update_dl_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_task(rq), rq, 0);
+
+ curr_class = rq->curr->sched_class;
+ update_rt_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_task(rq), rq, curr_class == &rt_sched_class);
+ update_dl_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_task(rq), rq, curr_class == &dl_sched_class);
update_irq_load_avg(rq, 0);
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
rq->last_blocked_load_update_tick = jiffies;