Hi,
On Tuesday 12 Jun 2018 at 12:22:15 (+0100), Quentin Perret wrote:
> When a new task wakes-up for the first time, its initial utilization
> is set to half of the spare capacity of its CPU. The current
> implementation of post_init_entity_util_avg() uses SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE
> directly as a capacity reference. As a result, on a big.LITTLE system, a
> new task waking up on an idle little CPU will be given ~512 of util_avg,
> even if the CPU's capacity is significantly less than that.
>
> Fix this by computing the spare capacity with arch_scale_cpu_capacity().
>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.per...@arm.com>
>
> ---
> v2: added "Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org>"
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index e497c05aab7f..f19432c17017 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -735,11 +735,12 @@ static void attach_entity_cfs_rq(struct sched_entity
> *se);
> * To solve this problem, we also cap the util_avg of successive tasks to
> * only 1/2 of the left utilization budget:
> *
> - * util_avg_cap = (1024 - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2^n
> + * util_avg_cap = (cpu_scale - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2^n
> *
> - * where n denotes the nth task.
> + * where n denotes the nth task and cpu_scale the CPU capacity.
> *
> - * For example, a simplest series from the beginning would be like:
> + * For example, for a CPU with 1024 of capacity, a simplest series from
> + * the beginning would be like:
> *
> * task util_avg: 512, 256, 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, ...
> * cfs_rq util_avg: 512, 768, 896, 960, 992, 1008, 1016, ...
> @@ -751,7 +752,8 @@ void post_init_entity_util_avg(struct sched_entity *se)
> {
> struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
> struct sched_avg *sa = &se->avg;
> - long cap = (long)(SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2;
> + long cpu_scale = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(NULL, cpu_of(rq_of(cfs_rq)));
> + long cap = (long)(cpu_scale - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2;
>
> if (cap > 0) {
> if (cfs_rq->avg.util_avg != 0) {
> --
> 2.17.1
>
Is there anything else I should do for this patch ?
Thanks,
Quentin
