Re: [PATCH 5.10 095/146] sched/fair: Correctly insert cfs_rqs to list on unthrottle

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 06:15:25PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Odin Ugedal <odin@xxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit a7b359fc6a37faaf472125867c8dc5a068c90982 ]
> 
> Fix an issue where fairness is decreased since cfs_rq's can end up not
> being decayed properly. For two sibling control groups with the same
> priority, this can often lead to a load ratio of 99/1 (!!).
> 
> This happens because when a cfs_rq is throttled, all the descendant
> cfs_rq's will be removed from the leaf list. When they initial cfs_rq
> is unthrottled, it will currently only re add descendant cfs_rq's if
> they have one or more entities enqueued. This is not a perfect
> heuristic.
> 
> Instead, we insert all cfs_rq's that contain one or more enqueued
> entities, or it its load is not completely decayed.
> 
> Can often lead to situations like this for equally weighted control
> groups:
> 
>   $ ps u -C stress
>   USER         PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
>   root       10009 88.8  0.0   3676   100 pts/1    R+   11:04   0:13 stress --cpu 1
>   root       10023  3.0  0.0   3676   104 pts/1    R+   11:04   0:00 stress --cpu 1
> 
> Fixes: 31bc6aeaab1d ("sched/fair: Optimize update_blocked_averages()")
> [vingo: !SMP build fix]
> Signed-off-by: Odin Ugedal <odin@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210612112815.61678-1-odin@xxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

This one is currently known to cause some LTP fail, fixes are being
discussed, please hold off for now.