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| author | Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> | 2016-10-19 14:45:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-10-19 15:04:47 +0200 |
| commit | b5a9b340789b2b24c6896bcf7a065c31a4db671c (patch) | |
| tree | 25985e88c736bf449970677e8eddae6ea75c9045 /kernel/sched | |
| parent | 1a1891d762d6e64daf07b5be4817e3fbb29e3c59 (diff) | |
sched/fair: Fix incorrect task group ->load_avg
A scheduler performance regression has been reported by Joseph Salisbury,
which he bisected back to:
3d30544f0212 ("sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes)
The regression triggers when several levels of task groups are involved
(read: SystemD) and cpu_possible_mask != cpu_present_mask.
The root cause is that group entity's load (tg_child->se[i]->avg.load_avg)
is initialized to scale_load_down(se->load.weight). During the creation of
a child task group, its group entities on possible CPUs are attached to
parent's cfs_rq (tg_parent) and their loads are added to the parent's load
(tg_parent->load_avg) with update_tg_load_avg().
But only the load on online CPUs will then be updated to reflect real load,
whereas load on other CPUs will stay at the initial value.
The result is a tg_parent->load_avg that is higher than the real load, the
weight of group entities (tg_parent->se[i]->load.weight) on online CPUs is
smaller than it should be, and the task group gets a less running time than
what it could expect.
( This situation can be detected with /proc/sched_debug. The ".tg_load_avg"
of the task group will be much higher than sum of ".tg_load_avg_contrib"
of online cfs_rqs of the task group. )
The load of group entities don't have to be intialized to something else
than 0 because their load will increase when an entity is attached.
Reported-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.8.x
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: joonwoop@codeaurora.org
Fixes: 3d30544f0212 ("sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476881123-10159-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/fair.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 76ee7de1859d..d941c97dfbc3 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -690,7 +690,14 @@ void init_entity_runnable_average(struct sched_entity *se) * will definitely be update (after enqueue). */ sa->period_contrib = 1023; - sa->load_avg = scale_load_down(se->load.weight); + /* + * Tasks are intialized with full load to be seen as heavy tasks until + * they get a chance to stabilize to their real load level. + * Group entities are intialized with zero load to reflect the fact that + * nothing has been attached to the task group yet. + */ + if (entity_is_task(se)) + sa->load_avg = scale_load_down(se->load.weight); sa->load_sum = sa->load_avg * LOAD_AVG_MAX; /* * At this point, util_avg won't be used in select_task_rq_fair anyway |