Re: [RFC PATCH] sched: fix the nonsense shares when load of cfs_rq is too, small

From: çè
Date: Fri Mar 06 2020 - 04:35:48 EST


On 2020/3/6 äå4:04, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 05:23, çè <yun.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2020/3/5 äå3:53, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>>> On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 02:14, çè <yun.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>>>>> index fcc968669aea..6d7a9d72d742 100644
>>>>> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>>>>> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>>>>> @@ -3179,9 +3179,9 @@ static long calc_group_shares(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
>>>>> long tg_weight, tg_shares, load, shares;
>>>>> struct task_group *tg = cfs_rq->tg;
>>>>>
>>>>> - tg_shares = READ_ONCE(tg->shares);
>>>>> + tg_shares = scale_load_down(READ_ONCE(tg->shares));
>>>>>
>>>>> - load = max(scale_load_down(cfs_rq->load.weight), cfs_rq->avg.load_avg);
>>>>> + load = max(cfs_rq->load.weight, scale_load(cfs_rq->avg.load_avg));
>>>>>
>>>>> tg_weight = atomic_long_read(&tg->load_avg);
>>>>
>>>> Get the point, but IMHO fix scale_load_down() sounds better, to
>>>> cover all the similar cases, let's first try that way see if it's
>>>> working :-)
>>>
>>> The problem with this solution is that the avg.load_avg of gse or
>>> cfs_rq might stay to 0 because it uses
>>> scale_load_down(se/cfs_rq->load.weight)
>>
>> Will cfs_rq->load.weight be zero too without scale down?
>
> cfs_rq->load.weight will never be 0, it's min is 2
>
>>
>> If cfs_rq->load.weight got at least something, the load will not be
>> zero after pick the max, correct?
>
> But the cfs_rq->avg.load_avg will never be other than 0 what ever
> there are heavy or light tasks in the group

Aha, get the point now :-)

BTW, would you like to give a review on
[PATCH] sched: avoid scale real weight down to zero
please?

Regards,
Michael Wang


>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael Wang
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Michael Wang
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>