sched: fix accounting in task delay accounting & migration

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:27:14PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 10:50 +0530, Ankita Garg wrote:
>
> > Thanks Peter for the explanation...
> >
> > I agree with the above and that is the reason why I did not see weird
> > values with cpu_time. But, run_delay still would suffer skews as the end
> > points for delta could be taken on different cpus due to migration (more
> > so on RT kernel due to the push-pull operations). With the below patch,
> > I could not reproduce the issue I had seen earlier. After every dequeue,
> > we take the delta and start wait measurements from zero when moved to a
> > different rq.
>
> OK, so task delay delay accounting is broken because it doesn't take
> migration into account.
>
> What you've done is make it symmetric wrt enqueue, and account it like
>
>   cpu0      cpu1
>
> enqueue
>  <wait-d1>
> dequeue
>             enqueue
>              <wait-d2>
>             run
>
> Where you add both d1 and d2 to the run_delay,.. right?
>

Thanks for reviewing the patch. The above is exactly what I have done.

> This seems like a good fix, however it looks like the patch will break
> compilation in !CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS && !CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, of it
> failing to provide a stub for sched_info_dequeue() in that case.

Fixed. Pl. find the new patch below.

Signed-off-by: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: David Bahi <DBahi@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index bbc40c3a0657..996bc15196a5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -1714,6 +1714,7 @@ static void dequeue_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sleep)
 		p->se.last_wakeup = 0;
 	}
 
+	sched_info_dequeued(p);
 	p->sched_class->dequeue_task(rq, p, sleep);
 	p->se.on_rq = 0;
 }