Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched,fair: flatten hierarchical runqueues

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 2019-06-25 at 11:50 +0200, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> On 6/12/19 9:32 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > @@ -410,6 +412,11 @@ static inline struct sched_entity
> > *parent_entity(struct sched_entity *se)
> >  	return se->parent;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static inline bool task_se_in_cgroup(struct sched_entity *se)
> > +{
> > +	return parent_entity(se);
> > +}
> 
> IMHO, s/in_cgroup/not_in_root_tg/ reads easier. "/", i.e. the root tg
> is
> still a cgroup, I guess. But you could use existing parent_entity(se)
> as
> well.

I agree my name is not the prettiest, but I am not
entirely convinced your idea is an improvement.

I'll hold out for better ideas by other reviewers :)

> > @@ -679,22 +710,16 @@ static inline u64 calc_delta_fair(u64 delta,
> > struct sched_entity *se)
> >  static u64 sched_slice(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity
> > *se)
> >  {
> >  	u64 slice = sysctl_sched_latency;
> > +	struct load_weight *load = &cfs_rq->load;
> > +	struct load_weight lw;
> >  
> > -	for_each_sched_entity(se) {
> > -		struct load_weight *load;
> > -		struct load_weight lw;
> > +	if (unlikely(!se->on_rq)) {
> > +		lw = cfs_rq->load;
> >  
> > -		cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
> > -		load = &cfs_rq->load;
> > -
> > -		if (unlikely(!se->on_rq)) {
> > -			lw = cfs_rq->load;
> > -
> > -			update_load_add(&lw, se->load.weight);
> > -			load = &lw;
> > -		}
> > -		slice = __calc_delta(slice, se->load.weight, load);
> > +		update_load_add(&lw, task_se_h_load(se));
> > +		load = &lw;
> >  	}
> > +	slice = __calc_delta(slice, task_se_h_load(se), load);
> 
> task_se_h_load(se) and se->load.weight are off my factor of >= 1024
> on
> 64bit.

Oh indeed they are!

I wonder if this is the root cause of that
performance regression I have been hunting for
the past few weeks :)

Let me go test some things...

> ...
>     bash pid=3250: task_se_h_load(se)=1023 se->load.weight=1048576
>     sysctl_sched_latency=18000000 slice=0 old_slice=17999995
> ...
> 
> [...]
> 
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