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| From | Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes |
| Date | 2016-10-18 14:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <stBdL-17v-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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Le Tuesday 18 Oct 2016 à 12:34:12 (+0200), Peter Zijlstra a écrit :
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:45:48AM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > On 18 October 2016 at 11:07, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > So aside from funny BIOSes, this should also show up when creating
> > > cgroups when you have offlined a few CPUs, which is far more common I'd
> > > think.
> >
> > The problem is also that the load of the tg->se[cpu] that represents
> > the tg->cfs_rq[cpu] is initialized to 1024 in:
> > alloc_fair_sched_group
> > for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> > init_entity_runnable_average(se);
> > sa->load_avg = scale_load_down(se->load.weight);
> >
> > Initializing sa->load_avg to 1024 for a newly created task makes
> > sense as we don't know yet what will be its real load but i'm not sure
> > that we have to do the same for se that represents a task group. This
> > load should be initialized to 0 and it will increase when task will be
> > moved/attached into task group
>
> Yes, I think that makes sense, not sure how horrible that is with the
That should not be that bad because this initial value is only useful for
the few dozens of ms that follow the creation of the task group
>
> current state of things, but after your propagate patch, that
> reinstates the interactivity hack that should work for sure.
The patch below fixes the issue on my platform:
Dietmar, Omer can you confirm that this fix the problem of your platform too ?
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 8b03fb5..89776ac 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 task until
+ * they get a chance to stabilize to their real load level.
+ * group entity are intialized with null load to reflect the fact that
+ * nothing has been attached yet to the task group.
+ */
+ 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
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Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-13 13:10 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com> - 2016-10-13 18:00 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-13 19:00 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> - 2016-10-13 21:00 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-13 23:40 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-14 10:30 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> - 2016-10-14 15:20 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-14 17:20 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com> - 2016-10-14 18:10 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-17 11:20 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> - 2016-10-17 14:00 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-17 15:30 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-17 16:00 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> - 2016-10-18 01:00 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-18 10:50 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-18 11:10 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-18 11:50 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-18 12:40 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-18 14:00 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org> - 2016-10-19 00:00 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-19 08:50 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-19 16:50 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com> - 2016-10-19 17:00 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-19 17:00 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> - 2016-10-19 17:40 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org> - 2016-10-19 19:40 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-19 20:00 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-19 17:50 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> - 2016-10-19 17:50 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-19 18:20 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> - 2016-10-19 18:40 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-10-19 19:50 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> - 2016-10-20 10:00 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> - 2016-10-18 13:20 +0200
Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-18 14:10 +0200
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