Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] sched: Fix UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE setting

From: Qais Yousef
Date: Thu Jul 01 2021 - 07:06:42 EST


On 06/30/21 15:45, Quentin Perret wrote:
> Hi Qais,
>
> On Wednesday 30 Jun 2021 at 15:58:48 (+0100), Qais Yousef wrote:
> > I just realized this needs
> >
> > if (clamp_id == UCLAMP_MAX)
> > rq->uclamp_flags &= ~UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE;
> >
> > The code is only set for UCLAMP_MAX, so should be cleared for UCLAMP_MAX too.
> >
> > Though there's ugly overload here:
> >
> > if (!(rq->uclamp_flags & UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE))
> > return;
> >
> > This check would fail prematurely if UCLAMP_MAX was reset before UCLAMP_MIN.
> > The code before your change would reset both then do the clear. But now when we
> > do it from here, we need to be more careful about that.
>
> Right, although this should all work fine as-is, I agree that relying on
> the calling order is a bit dodgy and might cause issues in the long run.
>
> What do you think of this instead?

I can't objectively say one way is better than the other, this has the drawback
of having to remember to clear the flag after each call to uclamp_rq_inc_id().
So it's pick your pain type of situation :-)

We can move the flag to struct uclamp_se. But this looks unnecessary churn to
me..

Cheers

--
Qais Yousef

>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index b094da4c5fea..c0b999a8062a 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -980,7 +980,6 @@ static inline void uclamp_idle_reset(struct rq *rq, enum uclamp_id clamp_id,
> if (!(rq->uclamp_flags & UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE))
> return;
>
> - rq->uclamp_flags &= ~UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE;
> WRITE_ONCE(rq->uclamp[clamp_id].value, clamp_value);
> }
>
> @@ -1253,6 +1252,10 @@ static inline void uclamp_rq_inc(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
>
> for_each_clamp_id(clamp_id)
> uclamp_rq_inc_id(rq, p, clamp_id);
> +
> + /* Reset clamp idle holding when there is one RUNNABLE task */
> + if (rq->uclamp_flags & UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE)
> + rq->uclamp_flags &= ~UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE;
> }
>
> static inline void uclamp_rq_dec(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
> @@ -1300,6 +1303,13 @@ uclamp_update_active(struct task_struct *p, enum uclamp_id clamp_id)
> if (p->uclamp[clamp_id].active) {
> uclamp_rq_dec_id(rq, p, clamp_id);
> uclamp_rq_inc_id(rq, p, clamp_id);
> +
> + /*
> + * Make sure to clear the idle flag if we've transiently reached
> + * 0 uclamp active tasks on the rq.
> + */
> + if (rq->uclamp_flags & UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE)
> + rq->uclamp_flags &= ~UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE;
> }
>
> task_rq_unlock(rq, p, &rf);