Re: [PATCH] sched/cpufreq: don't trigger cpufreq update w/o real rt/deadline tasks running

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 07:07:51PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 09:09:43AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> >> >> Sometimes .update_curr hook is called w/o tasks actually running, it is
> >> >> captured by:
> >> >>
> >> >>          u64 delta_exec = rq_clock_task(rq) - curr->se.exec_start;
> >> >>
> >> >> We should not trigger cpufreq update in this case for rt/deadline
> >> >> classes, and this patch fix it.
> >
> >> I add a print to print when delta_exec is zero for rt class, something
> >
> > So its zero, so what?
> >
> >> like below:
> >
> >>       watchdog/5-48    [005] d...   568.449105: update_curr_rt: rt
> >> delta_exec is zero
> >>       watchdog/5-48    [005] d...   568.449111: <stack trace>
> >>  => put_prev_task_rt
> >>  => pick_next_task_idle
> >
> > So we'll go idle, but as of this point we're still running the rt task.
> 
> Skipping the update in that case might be the right thing to do, though.

It is; the patch looks fine, but the Changelog is entirely
misleading/wrong.

Its not because the task isn't running; it is. Its because we end up
calling update_curr() multiple times and bailing when nothing changed is
indeed the right thing.