[tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Ensure _sum and _avg values stay consistent

From: tip-bot2 for Odin Ugedal
Date: Mon Jun 28 2021 - 09:58:22 EST


The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 1c35b07e6d3986474e5635be566e7bc79d97c64d
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/1c35b07e6d3986474e5635be566e7bc79d97c64d
Author: Odin Ugedal <odin@xxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:18:15 +02:00
Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 15:42:24 +02:00

sched/fair: Ensure _sum and _avg values stay consistent

The _sum and _avg values are in general sync together with the PELT
divider. They are however not always completely in perfect sync,
resulting in situations where _sum gets to zero while _avg stays
positive. Such situations are undesirable.

This comes from the fact that PELT will increase period_contrib, also
increasing the PELT divider, without updating _sum and _avg values to
stay in perfect sync where (_sum == _avg * divider). However, such PELT
change will never lower _sum, making it impossible to end up in a
situation where _sum is zero and _avg is not.

Therefore, we need to ensure that when subtracting load outside PELT,
that when _sum is zero, _avg is also set to zero. This occurs when
(_sum < _avg * divider), and the subtracted (_avg * divider) is bigger
or equal to the current _sum, while the subtracted _avg is smaller than
the current _avg.

Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Odin Ugedal <odin@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210624111815.57937-1-odin@xxxxxxx
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 4a3e61a..45edf61 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3657,15 +3657,15 @@ update_cfs_rq_load_avg(u64 now, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)

r = removed_load;
sub_positive(&sa->load_avg, r);
- sub_positive(&sa->load_sum, r * divider);
+ sa->load_sum = sa->load_avg * divider;

r = removed_util;
sub_positive(&sa->util_avg, r);
- sub_positive(&sa->util_sum, r * divider);
+ sa->util_sum = sa->util_avg * divider;

r = removed_runnable;
sub_positive(&sa->runnable_avg, r);
- sub_positive(&sa->runnable_sum, r * divider);
+ sa->runnable_sum = sa->runnable_avg * divider;

/*
* removed_runnable is the unweighted version of removed_load so we