From b5a9b340789b2b24c6896bcf7a065c31a4db671c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Guittot Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:45:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: Fix incorrect task group ->load_avg A scheduler performance regression has been reported by Joseph Salisbury, which he bisected back to: 3d30544f0212 ("sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes) The regression triggers when several levels of task groups are involved (read: SystemD) and cpu_possible_mask != cpu_present_mask. The root cause is that group entity's load (tg_child->se[i]->avg.load_avg) is initialized to scale_load_down(se->load.weight). During the creation of a child task group, its group entities on possible CPUs are attached to parent's cfs_rq (tg_parent) and their loads are added to the parent's load (tg_parent->load_avg) with update_tg_load_avg(). But only the load on online CPUs will then be updated to reflect real load, whereas load on other CPUs will stay at the initial value. The result is a tg_parent->load_avg that is higher than the real load, the weight of group entities (tg_parent->se[i]->load.weight) on online CPUs is smaller than it should be, and the task group gets a less running time than what it could expect. ( This situation can be detected with /proc/sched_debug. The ".tg_load_avg" of the task group will be much higher than sum of ".tg_load_avg_contrib" of online cfs_rqs of the task group. ) The load of group entities don't have to be intialized to something else than 0 because their load will increase when an entity is attached. Reported-by: Joseph Salisbury Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: # 4.8.x Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: joonwoop@codeaurora.org Fixes: 3d30544f0212 ("sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476881123-10159-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- 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 76ee7de1859d..d941c97dfbc3 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 tasks until + * they get a chance to stabilize to their real load level. + * Group entities are intialized with zero load to reflect the fact that + * nothing has been attached to the task group yet. + */ + 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 -- 2.20.1