Re: [LKP] [sched/fair] 070f5e860e: reaim.jobs_per_min -10.5% regression

From: Xing Zhengjun
Date: Fri Jun 19 2020 - 00:56:09 EST




On 6/17/2020 10:57 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
Le mercredi 17 juin 2020 Ã 08:30:21 (+0800), Xing Zhengjun a Ãcrit :


On 6/16/2020 2:54 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:

Hi Xing,

Le mardi 16 juin 2020 Ã 11:17:16 (+0800), Xing Zhengjun a Ãcrit :


On 6/15/2020 4:10 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
Hi Xing,

Le lundi 15 juin 2020 Ã 15:26:59 (+0800), Xing Zhengjun a Ãcrit :


On 6/12/2020 7:06 PM, Hillf Danton wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:36:49 +0800 Xing Zhengjun wrote:


...



I apply the patch based on v5.7, the test result is as the following:

TBH, I didn't expect that the results would still be bad, so i wonder if the threshold are
the root problem.

Could you run tests with the patch below that removes condition with runnable_avg ?
I just want to make sure that those 2 conditions are the root cause.

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index da3e5b54715b..f5774d0af059 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -8210,10 +8210,6 @@ group_has_capacity(unsigned int imbalance_pct, struct sg_lb_stats *sgs)
if (sgs->sum_nr_running < sgs->group_weight)
return true;

- if ((sgs->group_capacity * imbalance_pct) <
- (sgs->group_runnable * 100))
- return false;
-
if ((sgs->group_capacity * 100) >
(sgs->group_util * imbalance_pct))
return true;
@@ -8239,10 +8235,6 @@ group_is_overloaded(unsigned int imbalance_pct, struct sg_lb_stats *sgs)
(sgs->group_util * imbalance_pct))
return true;

- if ((sgs->group_capacity * imbalance_pct) <
- (sgs->group_runnable * 100))
- return true;
-
return false;
}



Thanks.
Vincent



I apply the patch based on v5.7, the test result is as the following:

=========================================================================================
tbox_group/testcase/rootfs/kconfig/compiler/runtime/nr_task/debug-setup/test/cpufreq_governor/ucode:

lkp-ivb-d04/reaim/debian-x86_64-20191114.cgz/x86_64-rhel-7.6/gcc-7/300s/100%/test/five_sec/performance/0x21

commit:
9f68395333ad7f5bfe2f83473fed363d4229f11c
070f5e860ee2bf588c99ef7b4c202451faa48236
v5.7
63a5d0fbb5ec62f5148c251c01e709b8358cd0ee (the test patch)

9f68395333ad7f5b 070f5e860ee2bf588c99ef7b4c2 v5.7
63a5d0fbb5ec62f5148c251c01e
---------------- --------------------------- ---------------------------
---------------------------
%stddev %change %stddev %change %stddev %change
%stddev
\ | \ | \
| \
0.69 -10.3% 0.62 -9.1% 0.62
+1.0% 0.69 reaim.child_systime
0.62 -1.0% 0.61 +0.5% 0.62
-0.1% 0.62 reaim.child_utime
66870 -10.0% 60187 -7.6% 61787
+1.1% 67636 reaim.jobs_per_min
16717 -10.0% 15046 -7.6% 15446
+1.1% 16909 reaim.jobs_per_min_child

OK. So the regression disappears when the conditions on runnable_avg are removed.

In the meantime, I have been able to understand more deeply what was happeningi
for this bench and how it is impacted by
commit: 070f5e860ee2 ("sched/fair: Take into account runnable_avg to classify group")

This bench forks a new thread for each and every new step. But a newly forked
threads start with a load_avg and a runnable_avg set to max whereas the threads
are running shortly before exiting. This makes the CPU to be set overloaded in
some case whereas it isn't.

Could you try the patch below ?
It fixes the problem on my setup (I have finally been able to reproduce the problem)

---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 0aeffff62807..b33a4a9e1491 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ void post_init_entity_util_avg(struct task_struct *p)
}
}
- sa->runnable_avg = cpu_scale;
+ sa->runnable_avg = sa->util_avg;
if (p->sched_class != &fair_sched_class) {
/*


I apply the patch above based on v5.7, the test result is as the following:

=========================================================================================
tbox_group/testcase/rootfs/kconfig/compiler/runtime/nr_task/debug-setup/test/cpufreq_governor/ucode:

lkp-ivb-d04/reaim/debian-x86_64-20191114.cgz/x86_64-rhel-7.6/gcc-7/300s/100%/test/five_sec/performance/0x21

commit:
9f68395333ad7f5bfe2f83473fed363d4229f11c
070f5e860ee2bf588c99ef7b4c202451faa48236
v5.7
cbb4d668e7431479a7978fa79d64c2271adefab0 ( the test patch which modify
post_init_entity_util_avg())

9f68395333ad7f5b 070f5e860ee2bf588c99ef7b4c2 v5.7 cbb4d668e7431479a7978fa79d6
---------------- --------------------------- --------------------------- ---------------------------
%stddev %change %stddev %change %stddev %change %stddev
\ | \ | \ | \
0.69 -10.3% 0.62 -9.1% 0.62 +0.6% 0.69 reaim.child_systime
0.62 -1.0% 0.61 +0.5% 0.62 -0.3% 0.62 reaim.child_utime
66870 -10.0% 60187 -7.6% 61787 +0.7% 67335 reaim.jobs_per_min
16717 -10.0% 15046 -7.6% 15446 +0.7% 16833 reaim.jobs_per_min_child
97.84 -1.1% 96.75 -0.4% 97.43 +0.2% 98.05 reaim.jti
72000 -10.8% 64216 -8.3% 66000 +0.0% 72000 reaim.max_jobs_per_min
0.36 +10.6% 0.40 +7.8% 0.39 -0.6% 0.36 reaim.parent_time
1.58 Â 2% +71.0% 2.70 Â 2% +26.9% 2.01 Â 2% -8.8% 1.44 Â 2% reaim.std_dev_percent
0.00 Â 5% +110.4% 0.01 Â 3% +48.8% 0.01 Â 7% -24.6% 0.00 Â 7% reaim.std_dev_time
50800 -2.4% 49600 -1.6% 50000 +0.0% 50800 reaim.workload


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Zhengjun Xing