This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sched/pelt: Fix task util_est update filtering to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sched-pelt-fix-task-util_est-update-filtering.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b49a1f654cbe14091ba9792dc77477d994af71a5 Author: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 25 16:58:20 2021 +0000 sched/pelt: Fix task util_est update filtering [ Upstream commit b89997aa88f0b07d8a6414c908af75062103b8c9 ] 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 No update would then happen while it would leave ue.enqueued with an out-of-date value.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@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210225165820.1377125-1-vincent.donnefort@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 348605306027..8f5bbc1469ed 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -3948,6 +3948,8 @@ 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: @@ -3965,7 +3967,7 @@ 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)) @@ -3986,6 +3988,8 @@ 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. @@ -3999,12 +4003,17 @@ 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