The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip: Commit-ID: 9357e217ba642b39ce89f9cd5b5f3e5a21712283 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/9357e217ba642b39ce89f9cd5b5f3e5a21712283 Author: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnef...@arm.com> AuthorDate: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:58:20 Committer: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> CommitterDate: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:33:00 +01:00
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 No update would then happen while it would leave ue.enqueued with an out-of-date value.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.donnef...@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggem...@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210225165820.1377125-1-vincent.donnef...@arm.com --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 1af51a6..f5d6541 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
