[RFC PATCH 01/10] sched: Make load tracking frequency scale-invariant

[Morten Rasmussen]

From: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>

Apply frequency scale-invariance correction factor to load tracking.
Each segment of the sched_avg::runnable_avg_sum geometric series is now
scaled by the current frequency so the sched_avg::load_avg_contrib of each
entity will be invariant with frequency scaling. As a result,
cfs_rq::runnable_load_avg which is the sum of sched_avg::load_avg_contrib,
becomes invariant too. So the load level that is returned by
weighted_cpuload, stays relative to the max frequency of the cpu.

Then, we want the keep the load tracking values in a 32bits type, which
implies that the max value of sched_avg::{runnable|running}_avg_sum must
be lower than 2^32/88761=48388 (88761 is the max weight of a task). As
LOAD_AVG_MAX = 47742, arch_scale_freq_capacity must return a value less
than (48388/47742) << SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT = 1037 (SCHED_SCALE_CAPACITY =
1024). So we define the range to [0..SCHED_SCALE_CAPACITY] in order to
avoid overflow.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index ee76d52..b41f03d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2507,9 +2507,9 @@ static __always_inline int __update_entity_runnable_avg(u64 now, int cpu,
 							int runnable,
 							int running)
 {
-	u64 delta, periods;
-	u32 runnable_contrib;
-	int delta_w, decayed = 0;
+	u64 delta, scaled_delta, periods;
+	u32 runnable_contrib, scaled_runnable_contrib;
+	int delta_w, scaled_delta_w, decayed = 0;
 	unsigned long scale_freq = arch_scale_freq_capacity(NULL, cpu);
 
 	delta = now - sa->last_runnable_update;
@@ -2543,11 +2543,12 @@ static __always_inline int __update_entity_runnable_avg(u64 now, int cpu,
 		 * period and accrue it.
 		 */
 		delta_w = 1024 - delta_w;
+		scaled_delta_w = (delta_w * scale_freq) >> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT;
+
 		if (runnable)
-			sa->runnable_avg_sum += delta_w;
+			sa->runnable_avg_sum += scaled_delta_w;
 		if (running)
-			sa->running_avg_sum += delta_w * scale_freq
-				>> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT;
+			sa->running_avg_sum += scaled_delta_w;
 		sa->avg_period += delta_w;
 
 		delta -= delta_w;
@@ -2565,20 +2566,23 @@ static __always_inline int __update_entity_runnable_avg(u64 now, int cpu,
 
 		/* Efficiently calculate \sum (1..n_period) 1024*y^i */
 		runnable_contrib = __compute_runnable_contrib(periods);
+		scaled_runnable_contrib = (runnable_contrib * scale_freq)
+						>> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT;
+
 		if (runnable)
-			sa->runnable_avg_sum += runnable_contrib;
+			sa->runnable_avg_sum += scaled_runnable_contrib;
 		if (running)
-			sa->running_avg_sum += runnable_contrib * scale_freq
-				>> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT;
+			sa->running_avg_sum += scaled_runnable_contrib;
 		sa->avg_period += runnable_contrib;
 	}
 
 	/* Remainder of delta accrued against u_0` */
+	scaled_delta = (delta * scale_freq) >> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT;
+
 	if (runnable)
-		sa->runnable_avg_sum += delta;
+		sa->runnable_avg_sum += scaled_delta;
 	if (running)
-		sa->running_avg_sum += delta * scale_freq
-			>> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT;
+		sa->running_avg_sum += scaled_delta;
 	sa->avg_period += delta;
 
 	return decayed;
-- 
1.9.1


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