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authorVincent Donnefort2021-02-25 16:58:20 +0000
committerIngo Molnar2021-03-06 12:40:22 +0100
commitb89997aa88f0b07d8a6414c908af75062103b8c9 (patch)
tree93cb8e48ededc3b24c51cab68fb7841009697a62 /kernel/sched
parent39a2a6eb5c9b66ea7c8055026303b3aa681b49a5 (diff)
sched/pelt: Fix task util_est update filtering
Being called for each dequeue, util_est reduces the number of its updates by filtering out when the EWMA signal is different from the task util_avg by less than 1%. It is a problem for a sudden util_avg ramp-up. Due to the decay from a previous high util_avg, EWMA might now be close enough to the new util_avg. No update would then happen while it would leave ue.enqueued with an out-of-date value. Taking into consideration the two util_est members, EWMA and enqueued for the filtering, ensures, for both, an up-to-date value. This is for now an issue only for the trace probe that might return the stale value. Functional-wise, it isn't a problem, as the value is always accessed through max(enqueued, ewma). This problem has been observed using LISA's UtilConvergence:test_means on the sd845c board. No regression observed with Hackbench on sd845c and Perf-bench sched pipe on hikey/hikey960. Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210225165820.1377125-1-vincent.donnefort@arm.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 1af51a68cae3..f5d6541334b3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3941,6 +3941,8 @@ static inline void util_est_dequeue(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq,
trace_sched_util_est_cfs_tp(cfs_rq);
}
+#define UTIL_EST_MARGIN (SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE / 100)
+
/*
* Check if a (signed) value is within a specified (unsigned) margin,
* based on the observation that:
@@ -3958,7 +3960,7 @@ static inline void util_est_update(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq,
struct task_struct *p,
bool task_sleep)
{
- long last_ewma_diff;
+ long last_ewma_diff, last_enqueued_diff;
struct util_est ue;
if (!sched_feat(UTIL_EST))
@@ -3979,6 +3981,8 @@ static inline void util_est_update(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq,
if (ue.enqueued & UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED)
return;
+ last_enqueued_diff = ue.enqueued;
+
/*
* Reset EWMA on utilization increases, the moving average is used only
* to smooth utilization decreases.
@@ -3992,12 +3996,17 @@ static inline void util_est_update(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq,
}
/*
- * Skip update of task's estimated utilization when its EWMA is
+ * Skip update of task's estimated utilization when its members are
* already ~1% close to its last activation value.
*/
last_ewma_diff = ue.enqueued - ue.ewma;
- if (within_margin(last_ewma_diff, (SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE / 100)))
+ last_enqueued_diff -= ue.enqueued;
+ if (within_margin(last_ewma_diff, UTIL_EST_MARGIN)) {
+ if (!within_margin(last_enqueued_diff, UTIL_EST_MARGIN))
+ goto done;
+
return;
+ }
/*
* To avoid overestimation of actual task utilization, skip updates if