The update of the share of a cfs_rq is done when its load_avg is updated
but before the group_entity's load_avg has been updated for the past time
slot. This generates wrong load_avg accounting which can be significant
when small tasks are involved in the scheduling.
Let take the example of a task a that is dequeued of its task group A:
root
(cfs_rq)
\
(se)
A
(cfs_rq)
\
(se)
a
Task "a" was the only task in task group A which becomes idle when a is
dequeued.
We have the sequence:
- dequeue_entity a->se
- update_load_avg(a->se)
- dequeue_entity_load_avg(A->cfs_rq, a->se)
- update_cfs_shares(A->cfs_rq)
A->cfs_rq->load.weight == 0
A->se->load.weight is updated with the new share (0 in this case)
- dequeue_entity A->se
- update_load_avg(A->se) but its weight is now null so the last time
slot (up to a tick) will be accounted with a weight of 0 instead of
its real weight during the time slot. The last time slot will be
accounted as an idle one whereas it was a running one.
If the running time of task a is short enough that no tick happens when it
runs, all running time of group entity A->se will be accounted as idle
time.
Instead, we should update the share of a cfs_rq (in fact the weight of its
group entity) only after having updated the load_avg of the group_entity.
update_cfs_shares() now take the sched_entity as parameter instead of the
cfs_rq and the weight of the group_entity is updated only once its load_avg
has been synced with current time.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> #v4.4+
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 6559d19..b998287 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2689,16 +2689,20 @@ static void reweight_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
static inline int throttled_hierarchy(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq);
-static void update_cfs_shares(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
+static void update_cfs_shares(struct sched_entity *se)
{
- struct task_group *tg;
- struct sched_entity *se;
long shares;
+ struct task_group *tg;
+ struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = group_cfs_rq(se);
- tg = cfs_rq->tg;
- se = tg->se[cpu_of(rq_of(cfs_rq))];
- if (!se || throttled_hierarchy(cfs_rq))
+ if (!cfs_rq)
return;
+
+ if (throttled_hierarchy(cfs_rq))
+ return;
+
+ tg = cfs_rq->tg;
+
#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
if (likely(se->load.weight == tg->shares))
return;
@@ -2707,8 +2711,10 @@ static void update_cfs_shares(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
reweight_entity(cfs_rq_of(se), se, shares);
}
+
+
#else /* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */
-static inline void update_cfs_shares(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
+static inline void update_cfs_shares(struct sched_entity *se)
{
}
#endif /* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */
@@ -3582,10 +3588,18 @@ enqueue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
if (renorm && !curr)
se->vruntime += cfs_rq->min_vruntime;
+ /*
+ * When enqueuing a sched_entity, we must:
+ * - Update loads to have both entity and cfs_rq synced with now.
+ * - Add its load to cfs_rq->runnable_avg
+ * - For group_entity, update its weight to reflect the new share of
+ * its group cfs_rq
+ * - Add its new weight to cfs_rq->load.weight
+ */
update_load_avg(se, UPDATE_TG);
enqueue_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se);
+ update_cfs_shares(se);
account_entity_enqueue(cfs_rq, se);
- update_cfs_shares(cfs_rq);
if (flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP)
place_entity(cfs_rq, se, 0);
@@ -3657,6 +3671,15 @@ dequeue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
* Update run-time statistics of the 'current'.
*/
update_curr(cfs_rq);
+
+ /*
+ * When dequeuing a sched_entity, we must:
+ * - Update loads to have both entity and cfs_rq synced with now.
+ * - Substract its load from the cfs_rq->runnable_avg.
+ * - Substract its previous weight from cfs_rq->load.weight.
+ * - For group entity, update its weight to reflect the new share
+ * of its group cfs_rq.
+ */
update_load_avg(se, UPDATE_TG);
dequeue_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se);
@@ -3681,7 +3704,7 @@ dequeue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
/* return excess runtime on last dequeue */
return_cfs_rq_runtime(cfs_rq);
- update_cfs_shares(cfs_rq);
+ update_cfs_shares(se);
/*
* Now advance min_vruntime if @se was the entity holding it back,
@@ -3864,7 +3887,7 @@ entity_tick(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *curr, int queued)
* Ensure that runnable average is periodically updated.
*/
update_load_avg(curr, UPDATE_TG);
- update_cfs_shares(cfs_rq);
+ update_cfs_shares(curr);
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK
/*
@@ -4761,7 +4784,7 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
break;
update_load_avg(se, UPDATE_TG);
- update_cfs_shares(cfs_rq);
+ update_cfs_shares(se);
}
if (!se)
@@ -4820,7 +4843,7 @@ static void dequeue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
break;
update_load_avg(se, UPDATE_TG);
- update_cfs_shares(cfs_rq);
+ update_cfs_shares(se);
}
if (!se)
@@ -9356,8 +9379,10 @@ int sched_group_set_shares(struct task_group *tg, unsigned long shares)
/* Possible calls to update_curr() need rq clock */
update_rq_clock(rq);
- for_each_sched_entity(se)
- update_cfs_shares(group_cfs_rq(se));
+ for_each_sched_entity(se) {
+ update_load_avg(se, UPDATE_TG);
+ update_cfs_shares(se);
+ }
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
}
--
2.7.4
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