I've Cc:-ed a handful of gents who worked on CFS bandwidth details to widen the discussion.
Patch quoted below.
Looks like a real bug that needs to be fixed - and at first sight the quota of 1000 looks very
low - could we improve the arithmetics perhaps?
A low quota of 1000 is used because there's many VMs or containers provisioned on the system
that is triggering the bug, right?
Thanks,
Ingo
* Phil Auld <pauld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Phil Auld" <pauld@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> sched/fair: Avoid throttle_list starvation with low cfs quota
>
> With a very low cpu.cfs_quota_us setting, such as the minimum of 1000,
> distribute_cfs_runtime may not empty the throttled_list before it runs
> out of runtime to distribute. In that case, due to the change from
> c06f04c7048 to put throttled entries at the head of the list, later entries
> on the list will starve. Essentially, the same X processes will get pulled
> off the list, given CPU time and then, when expired, get put back on the
> head of the list where distribute_cfs_runtime will give runtime to the same
> set of processes leaving the rest.
>
> Fix the issue by setting a bit in struct cfs_bandwidth when
> distribute_cfs_runtime is running, so that the code in throttle_cfs_rq can
> decide to put the throttled entry on the tail or the head of the list. The
> bit is set/cleared by the callers of distribute_cfs_runtime while they hold
> cfs_bandwidth->lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: c06f04c70489 ("sched: Fix potential near-infinite distribute_cfs_runtime() loop")
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>
> This is easy to reproduce with a handful of cpu consumers. I use crash on
> the live system. In some cases you can simply look at the throttled list and
> see the later entries are not changing:
>
> crash> list cfs_rq.throttled_list -H 0xffff90b54f6ade40 -s cfs_rq.runtime_remaining | paste - - | awk '{print $1" "$4}' | pr -t -n3
> 1 ffff90b56cb2d200 -976050
> 2 ffff90b56cb2cc00 -484925
> 3 ffff90b56cb2bc00 -658814
> 4 ffff90b56cb2ba00 -275365
> 5 ffff90b166a45600 -135138
> 6 ffff90b56cb2da00 -282505
> 7 ffff90b56cb2e000 -148065
> 8 ffff90b56cb2fa00 -872591
> 9 ffff90b56cb2c000 -84687
> 10 ffff90b56cb2f000 -87237
> 11 ffff90b166a40a00 -164582
> crash> list cfs_rq.throttled_list -H 0xffff90b54f6ade40 -s cfs_rq.runtime_remaining | paste - - | awk '{print $1" "$4}' | pr -t -n3
> 1 ffff90b56cb2d200 -994147
> 2 ffff90b56cb2cc00 -306051
> 3 ffff90b56cb2bc00 -961321
> 4 ffff90b56cb2ba00 -24490
> 5 ffff90b166a45600 -135138
> 6 ffff90b56cb2da00 -282505
> 7 ffff90b56cb2e000 -148065
> 8 ffff90b56cb2fa00 -872591
> 9 ffff90b56cb2c000 -84687
> 10 ffff90b56cb2f000 -87237
> 11 ffff90b166a40a00 -164582
>
> Sometimes it is easier to see by finding a process getting starved and looking
> at the sched_info:
>
> crash> task ffff8eb765994500 sched_info
> PID: 7800 TASK: ffff8eb765994500 CPU: 16 COMMAND: "cputest"
> sched_info = {
> pcount = 8,
> run_delay = 697094208,
> last_arrival = 240260125039,
> last_queued = 240260327513
> },
> crash> task ffff8eb765994500 sched_info
> PID: 7800 TASK: ffff8eb765994500 CPU: 16 COMMAND: "cputest"
> sched_info = {
> pcount = 8,
> run_delay = 697094208,
> last_arrival = 240260125039,
> last_queued = 240260327513
> },
>
>
> fair.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
> sched.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 7fc4a371bdd2..f88e00705b55 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -4476,9 +4476,13 @@ static void throttle_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
>
> /*
> * Add to the _head_ of the list, so that an already-started
> - * distribute_cfs_runtime will not see us
> + * distribute_cfs_runtime will not see us. If disribute_cfs_runtime is
> + * not running add to the tail so that later runqueues don't get starved.
> */
> - list_add_rcu(&cfs_rq->throttled_list, &cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq);
> + if (cfs_b->distribute_running)
> + list_add_rcu(&cfs_rq->throttled_list, &cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq);
> + else
> + list_add_tail_rcu(&cfs_rq->throttled_list, &cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq);
>
> /*
> * If we're the first throttled task, make sure the bandwidth
> @@ -4622,14 +4626,16 @@ static int do_sched_cfs_period_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b, int overrun)
> * in us over-using our runtime if it is all used during this loop, but
> * only by limited amounts in that extreme case.
> */
> - while (throttled && cfs_b->runtime > 0) {
> + while (throttled && cfs_b->runtime > 0 && !cfs_b->distribute_running) {
> runtime = cfs_b->runtime;
> + cfs_b->distribute_running = 1;
> raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
> /* we can't nest cfs_b->lock while distributing bandwidth */
> runtime = distribute_cfs_runtime(cfs_b, runtime,
> runtime_expires);
> raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
>
> + cfs_b->distribute_running = 0;
> throttled = !list_empty(&cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq);
>
> cfs_b->runtime -= min(runtime, cfs_b->runtime);
> @@ -4740,6 +4746,11 @@ static void do_sched_cfs_slack_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
>
> /* confirm we're still not at a refresh boundary */
> raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
> + if (cfs_b->distribute_running) {
> + raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> if (runtime_refresh_within(cfs_b, min_bandwidth_expiration)) {
> raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
> return;
> @@ -4749,6 +4760,9 @@ static void do_sched_cfs_slack_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
> runtime = cfs_b->runtime;
>
> expires = cfs_b->runtime_expires;
> + if (runtime)
> + cfs_b->distribute_running = 1;
> +
> raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
>
> if (!runtime)
> @@ -4759,6 +4773,7 @@ static void do_sched_cfs_slack_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
> raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
> if (expires == cfs_b->runtime_expires)
> cfs_b->runtime -= min(runtime, cfs_b->runtime);
> + cfs_b->distribute_running = 0;
> raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
> }
>
> @@ -4867,6 +4882,7 @@ void init_cfs_bandwidth(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
> cfs_b->period_timer.function = sched_cfs_period_timer;
> hrtimer_init(&cfs_b->slack_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
> cfs_b->slack_timer.function = sched_cfs_slack_timer;
> + cfs_b->distribute_running = 0;
> }
>
> static void init_cfs_rq_runtime(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index 455fa330de04..9683f458aec7 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ struct cfs_bandwidth {
> int nr_periods;
> int nr_throttled;
> u64 throttled_time;
> +
> + bool distribute_running;
> #endif
> };
>
>
>
> --
